{"id":86026,"date":"2021-09-17T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=86026"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T10:34:17","slug":"breaking-fani-kayode-is-a-liar-he-played-no-role-in-my-defection-to-apc-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-fani-kayode-is-a-liar-he-played-no-role-in-my-defection-to-apc-umahi\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Fani-Kayode is a liar, he played no role in my defection to APC \u2013 Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1711144498888249576\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi has called former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, a liar, literally, for claiming that he was instrumental to the defection of three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nFani-Kayode, a former chieftain of PDP formally joined the APC on Thurday and was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock Villa.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The former minister claimed that he played a role in the defection of Umahi, Ben Ayade of Cross River State and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara to APC.<\/p>\n<p>But Umahi said that was a lie from the pit of hell.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking as a guest of Channels TV Sunrise Daily, Umahi said Fani-Kayode owes him an apology.<\/p>\n<p>Barely hiding his anger, Umahi said, \u201cFor someone to come and say that a whole Chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum, that he was instrumental to my movement from PDP to APC is an insult on my person and with all due respect, he has to withdraw that statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe remains my friend and a good one for that matter, but he played no role in my movement and I am sure he didn\u2019t play any role in the movement of the rest of us.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi has called former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, a liar, literally, for claiming that he was instrumental to the defection of three Peoples Democratic Party&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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