{"id":62537,"date":"2022-04-04T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode"},"modified":"2022-04-04T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:11:42","slug":"gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode","title":{"rendered":"Gov Ugwuanyi\u2019s opponents in PDP after him \u2013 Fani-Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has alerted that Enugu Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is a target of promoted attacks by his rivals in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>The former presidential aide said that though were in different political parties, he could corroborate \u201cthe integrity and decency of one of my dearest friends and brothers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, he noted that the baseless allegations being peddled are totally unbecoming of \u201cthe identifiable individual\u201d behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see a lie you have a duty before man and God to expose it for what it is and shoot it down,\u201d Fani-Kayode wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is decency and justice and it does not matter whether you and the object or target of such perfidious mendacities are on the same side of the political divide or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said premeditated lies, coupled with a heavy dosage of libel and slander against fellow human beings, diminish everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister advised Nigerians to eschew the politics of hate, division and renounce persons who try to bring down those seen as an obstacle to their political aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode further disclosed that he had conversations with the governor about him leaving the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing that I did not do or say to try to get him to leave the PDP and join the APC but he simply refused to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect his decision and the fact that we are in different parties does not mean I cannot vouch for him when others in his own party are trying to destroy him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode advised masterminds of the smear campaign to know that it does not serve them well to attempt to disparage \u201cone of the brightest stars in the East and Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has alerted that Enugu Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is a target of promoted attacks by his rivals in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The former presidential aide said that though were in different political parties, he could corroborate \u201cthe integrity and decency of one of my dearest friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,230,254,65,989],"class_list":["post-62537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-fani-kayode","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-ugwuanyi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov Ugwuanyi\u2019s opponents in PDP after him \u2013 Fani-Kayode - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has alerted that Enugu Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is a target of promoted att ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov Ugwuanyi\u2019s opponents in PDP after him \u2013 Fani-Kayode\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has alerted that Enugu Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is a target of promoted att ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-04T15:55:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-04T17:11:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/img-624b26af8efb1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"826\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gov Ugwuanyi\u2019s opponents in PDP after him \u2013 Fani-Kayode\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-04T15:55:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-04T17:11:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode\"},\"wordCount\":318,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/img-624b26af8efb1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Fani Kayode\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Ugwuanyi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/gov-ugwuanyis-opponents-in-pdp-after-him-fani-kayode\",\"name\":\"Gov Ugwuanyi\u2019s opponents in PDP after him \u2013 Fani-Kayode - 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