Text of a press conference addressed by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Director Media and Publicity Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation on April 1, 2015. Read below...


Ladies and gentlemen of the media,

We have come here today to express our gratitude to the Nigerian people for the overwhelming support that we received over the last few weeks when it comes to the issue of the Presidential election.


We fought a virile, strong, aggressive and very effective campaign on behalf of our candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan and we put the case to the Nigerian people as to why we believe that he ought to have been elected as President for a second term.


We are very proud of the efforts of our President and of our party and we are also very proud of the efforts of every single one of those who participated in the Presidential Campaign Organisation. As a Directorate we could not have asked for anything more in terms of support and encouragement from our colleagues and comrades within the party and the Campaign Organisation. I am personally very proud of my team, every single one of them; my Assistant Directors, my officers, my advisory team and every single one of those that joined hands to help us to state our case and to sell our candidate to the Nigerian people.


It has however come to a point that we must tell the world and the Nigerian people about how we feel about the outcome of the election. What we will say here today is basically to reiterate and to reflect the words of our leader and President, President Goodluck Jonathan. We start by saying that we commend and we congratulate General Muammadu Buhari for winning this election. We also wish to commend our President, President Goodluck Jonathan, for having the courage to concede that he has lost the election at the earliest moment and also for being able to stand up and rise above party politics and being able to speak like a statesman.


We therefore urge the Nigerian people and our teeming supporters to stand firm and continue to support the democratic process and continue to agitate for a better Nigeria. We urge them to continue to support our party the PDP as best as they can even though we lost this election. We ask them to co-operate with the incoming government and to remember that we are first and foremost Nigerians before anything else.



On the day of the election when I went to vote at Ile-Ife, I held a press conference in which I told the people that more than anything else that we should try our very best to keep the peace in this country and to keep the country moving forward. I also reminded them that in every election there will always be a winner and a loser. It is a mark of our humanity and it is also symptomatic of the type of people that we are and who we are that when the time comes we can say we fought a good fight but we lost.


And having lost, it does not mean that it is the end to the world, it just means that we need to re-group, re-organise ourselves and begin the process all over again because another elections will come in a few years time. And that is where we are today. We have conceded that we have lost. We acknowledge the fact that we fought a good fight. We do not have any fears about the future. We did the right thing during the campaign. We have no regrets about our candidate or the way in which we conducted our campaign and we will live to fight another day


Finally let me commend all our colleagues on the other side for also standing up for what they believed in. There was absolutely nothing personal as regards this Directorate or myself. I had nothing personal against anybody. I was simply doing my job for which I have no regrets and I wish them well and I sincerely hope that they will take Nigeria to a level that we can all be proud of.


May God grant each and everyone of us peace. May He watch over our nation. May He guide our President for the next two months whilst he is still in power and thereafter and may He guide and lead the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, in the herculean task that lies ahead for him. My prayer is that he brings our nation together, heals the wounds and that he builds the bridges in terms of religion, ethnicity and region that he needs to build in order for us to make Nigeria a better place and to ensure that Nigeria becomes a great country that she is destined to be.


I want to end this message by thanking our colleagues in the press for always responding to us so quickly and for always being ready to hear our message and for putting it out there. Also those on the social media, both friend and foe, we thank you for your efforts. We thank our foes because they kept us on our toes and we thank our friends because they encouraged us and gave us hope.


May God grant you all peace and joy and may you live long and prosper.


God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.


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Kirikiri straight!

Sai Buhari
E remain ambode

Amen to the poster above

He has done what he was paid for. Life continues.
GEJ "Father Of Nigeria's Modern Democracy"

Femi Fanny Kayode the basket mouth. You are now eating your words after the Nigerian electorate taught you and your useless president a lesson you will never forget

God will punish you for all the lies that you told against the General

- He is sponsored by Isis

-He has no certificate

-He has cancer

-He is the founder of Boko Haram

- He killed Igbos

Nigerians heard your lies and ignored them. They voted en masse for General Buhari and now he is your President Elect.

FFK you are a disgrace!

Sai President Buhari

FFK,so you know how to talk like a gentleman like this,yet you allow the heat of the election gets into your head by spewing hatred toward the candidature of the opposition party..

In life,we always fight with the intention of having a reconciliation in future,but you didn't act like that,you did your job,as if life begins,and ends with your position..

Life is a phase,it turns around..

Yomieluv.

Pdp will rise again and get these apc squatters out of our rock!

FFK the joker

Just what I have been waiting for!!!!! Okupe NEXT..........

Hungry man.

MY MESSAGE TO BUHARI AS HE WON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!

#babanowthatyouarethere...

1) Don't come-up with 36-point agenda.
Just give us Light and security. Odas will fall in place.

2) Reduce the costs for data bundles.

3) Make Fashola a minister with 10
portfolios. He can handle it.

4) Baba, the number of fish in each tin of Titus sardine used to be 8 in 1999. Please do
something about it.

4) Shut all borders. Our jail candidates
must not be allowed to escape to Cotonou.

5) Don't Use 1billion Naira to Eat. No Be
Food We Say Make U Go Chop!

6) Please arrest dat lady that says your
call credit is low please recharge!

7) Stop jumbo salary 4 d politicians & pay
dem like civil servant 2 discourage rogues
from our politics. Don't use all our money to buy shoes and private jets. Use ur old military boots and okada if necessary.

9) Let there be electricity, we don't want to be hugging transformers.

10) We want NTA to be clear like CNN,
BBC, Aljazeera and so on.

YOURS SINCERELY,
Naija Youth.

Nice one..

Blah, blah, blah. Good riddance.....

okay. but you no try for GEJ.

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Our Fani Werepe Has gone MaD again!!

I thought he said they won 23 states still waiting for his own election results to be announced, meanwhile we got a certificate bigger than the one he, fayose and other PDP members had been looking for all this while instead of campaigning and promoting their candidate.


SAI BABA
SAI OSINBAJO
SAI JAGABAN
SAI APC
SAI NIGERIA

Really

Elslim:
Kirikiri straight!

Fani will make a great story teller. His decamping to APC will soon be expressed

Lol. That awkward moment when you left the winning team to join the losing team. In life, it's very important we mind the way we treat and talk to others. FFK will forever remain a Judas in Nigerian politics. NO ONE, I REPEAT NO ONE WILL EVER TRUST HIM.

Fani fani smh...






#RESPECTGEJ forever an icon of peace!
#badbelleisallowed

Funny

The man with the running mouth. Femi "funny" kayode

lmaoooo! Nothing personal Boy you called Tinubu smelling mouth and you said nothing personal? Boy you will suffer more disgrace than your father ever suffered in South west. I'm already laughing at your future suffering. Lmao

FFK's Job is done. Everything that has a beginning ultimately has an end.




All he successfully did was run GEJ's second term ambition to the ground.

kay1one:
Pdp will rise again and get these apc squatters out of our rock!

Not that easy

https://www.nairaland.com/2230719/pdp-viable-opposition-party

Ode

Nice

These were the words of Mr, President Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan the Hero of Africa.
“If I lose this election, of course I will go back to my village.
The country is not my father’s estate.” - Goodluck Jonathan
“My ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.” -
Goodluck Jonathan
“Let nobody rig for me.” - Goodluck Jonathan
“Yes, nothing will really ruffle me because I am willing and
ready to serve but I am not desperate to serve. That is what
keeps me going.” - Goodluck Jonathan
“All of us who want to hold offices from the least, a
counsellor of a ward or a chairman of a council, a member
of the state House of Assembly or member of House of
Representatives, Senate, Governor or the President - if all of
us are always ready and willing to serve our people but we
are not desperate in that our mission, then of course Nigeria
will be a better place for all of us.” – Goodluck Jonathan
In spite of some of the missteps of President Jonathan, his
attitude towards power, his abhorrence of violence and
conflicts, his humility, and his desire not to act like our
“powerful politicians” endear him to me. Thank God he was
the President at this critical time of our history. Imagine if
he had the do-or-die mentality towards power!
It shall be well with him for putting the nation first all
through this election.

That won't reduce his 56 years jail term.....