Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has defended the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a better alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), while acknowledging that no political party is without flaws.
Keyamo addressed the matter in a post on X on Saturday, accompanied by a video, clarifying that comments from a 2017 interview with a blog had been misrepresented.
This is the unedited part of the interview I granted a blog in 2017, emphasising that APC may not be a party of saints (which, I repeat, is a matter of fact), BUT it is still far better than where we were coming from,” he wrote. “Some characters edited the last part of my statement out of it.”
He added, “And today, I repeat it again, I will be a fool to say APC is a party of saints. And anyone who declares any party to which he/she belongs as a party of saints will also be a fool.”
The minister insisted that despite imperfections, the APC offers more promising prospects for Nigeria compared to the PDP, which previously governed the country.
But, on the balance, the APC still holds the best hope for the country and we cannot return to the era of PDP, where you had some of the characters who are running for President today,” Keyamo said. “It was only Mr. President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that never hopped onto that battered train of PDP at that time.”
