Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode has warned supporters of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) against disparaging Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) verbally.
Fani-Kayode stressed that he would no longer keep silent and vowed to respond to the verbal abuse directed at Tinubu by Obi and Atiku’s supporters “fire-for-fire.”
He denounced Obi’s spokesperson for implying that Tinubu has mental health problems.
He expressed regret that Tinubu was referred to as “Nebuchadnezzar,” “a monkey,” and “satan” by one of Obi’s spokespeople.
Fani-Kayode also scolded Atiku’s spokesperson for using derogatory language to describe the APC candidate.
In a Facebook post, Fani-Kayode wrote: “With disgust and consternation, I watched one of the leaders of Peter Obi’s PCC insulting and attempting to mimic Asiwaju’s speech on Channels TV the other day and suggesting that he had mental health challenges.
“Like Obi’s men, the PDP, their spokesmen and their leaders are also guilty of this attempt to slur and say some of the most outrageous things about our candidate and his health on National Television as well.
“Up till now, I have been quite gentle and I have kept the peace by refraining from targeting the respective opposition candidates on national television but let me serve them notice that it is my intention to respond to them fire for fire from today onwards.”