Nigeria: Fani-Kayode - We Have Been Vindicated, PDP Says

Mr. Fani Kayode had on Monday announced that he was withdrawing his membership of the APC and returning to the PDP. He stated that his decision was based on APC's intolerance of divergent views, "sympathy for Boko Haram and the insistence of its leadership to put up a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in the forthcoming Nigerian presidential elections".

The former minister said he was now comfortable returning to the PDP since its former chairman, Bamanga Tukur, who he said demonstrated sympathy for the extremist Boko Haram sect, had been removed.

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