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Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation, says he was never politically blind.

Fani-Kayode said this while responding to a tweet by Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, posted on Sunday.

“My brother FFK and I are both returnee to PDP. He only got healed of political blindness before me. Thank God we both can now see. Once we were blind and now we can see,” Melaye tweeted on Sunday.

My brother FFK and I are both returnee to PDP. He only got healed of political blindness before me. Thank God we both can now see. Once we were blind and now we can see.

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— Senator Dino Melaye. (SDM) (@dino_melaye) July 8, 2018

Melaye had written in reaction to Fani-Kayode’s comment on his willingness to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The ex-minister taunted Melaye over a video where he said he could not wait to return to the PDP.

But Fani-Kayode responded: “I am glad that those that deserted us, fought us,insulted us,persecuted us and derided us for supporting @GEJonathan in 2015 are now singing that they are  coming back ‘home’ to PDP. Their error of judgement,lack of foresight and love affair with Buhari cost the nation dearly.”

I am glad that those that deserted us, fought us,insulted us,persecuted us and derided us for supporting @GEJonathan in 2015 are now singing that they are coming back "home" to PDP. Their error of judgement,lack of foresight and love affair with Buhari cost the nation dearly.

— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) July 7, 2018

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In an article on Monday, Fani-Kayode said it was incorrect for Melaye to say he was politically blind.

The PDP chieftain said he erroneously aligned himself with those who formed the All Progressives Congress (APC) and was compelled to flee after a few months in 2013.

“The truth is that unlike him I was never ‘blind’ but I simply let down my guard, closed my eyes for a brief moment and allowed my fleeting anger to becloud my better judgement. Thankfully I opened those eyes relatively quickly and retraced my steps. I saw the evil and immediately I fled from it,” it read.

“Within a short period of time such was the power of the stench of the group of people that I had erroneously aligned myself with for a few months in 2013 that I was compelled to open my eyes and flee the scene. Dino detected the same stench very early on but not only did he choose to hold his nose and stay in that filthy setting but he also opted to assist in putting it in power and enthroning it.

“The difference between me and him is that I joined the then opposition party in 2013 and stayed there for only nine months. I left long before it was recognised as a political party by INEC, long before it was named ‘APC’ and long before Buhari became its presidential candidate.

“Unlike Dino I recognised the evil in them and left them long before they came to power in 2015. Unlike Dino I raised the alarm about their genocidal tendencies, their fascistic disposition, their secret desire to field a Muslim/Muslim ticket and their jihadist agenda. Unlike Dino I fought them to a standstill in the 2015 presidential election by boldly speaking for the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan.

“To add to that I have opposed their evil ways and demonic agenda consistently without fear or favour for the last three years and my family and I have paid a heavy price for doing so.”

The former minister said unlike Melaye he told the world that APC must be stopped and he has paid for it.

“I was proved right. Dino and co. saw the evil in the APC and instead of following my lead they stayed there, pitched their tent with them, fought for them, spoke for them, campaigned for them, ensured that they won power and openly supported the evil that they subjected Nigerians to for the last three years,” he said.

“In those three years many of our people were murdered, demonised, locked up, humiliated, detained, subjected to trumped-up and politically-motivated criminal charges and brutal witchunt, criminalised, misreprsented, threatened, intimidated and demonised. Many were totally destroyed and may never recover.

“Let God judge between those of us that stayed with the evil and those of us that opposed it. Whatever the case I congratulate Dino for seeing the light, albeit three years late, and for returning to the fold and the land of the living. As they say, it is better late than never.”