Rabuka asks why is Sayed-Khaiyum working with a subsequent coup leader

People’s Alliance Leader, Sitiveni Rabuka says if Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is saying as the General Secretary of the FijiFirst that Rabuka is the father of coups then why is he working with a subsequent coup leader.

Rabuka made these comments during a press conference while responding to Sayed-Khaiyum’s comments.

He says a good leader knows when he has offended others and if he sees some have not heard his apology and may have hurt someone in that year then he apologises to them personally.

Rabuka further says our land is protected and it is outside their control because of what the government has done but now is the right time to be looking at it.

He says it is part of the Millennium Development Goals and part of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People which we have to ratify.

The former Prime Minister says they have to look at those and see which laws can be made subsequent to the ratification.

When questioned if he feel the FijiFirst is threatened by the People’s Alliance and this is the reason why they attack them, Rabuka asks if FijiFirst sees him in the form of a snake in their dreams or have they been offering yaqona close to Nakauvadra.

Sayed-Khaiyum says their game plan is to reach out to the members of the public, talk to them about what they have done what they intend to do and the decisive leadership that has been provided by Bainimarama.

Sayed-Khaiyum says Bainimarama is the only leader that has been principled and value driven unlike Rabuka who switched parties where he got elected under SODELPA then resigned after couple of years because he could not have his way and people of his own party threw him out.

He says then there are people like National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad who put up a video before 2014 elections saying he will never work together with people who have carried out coups and today he has formed a coalition with Rabuka where many would call him the father of coups in Fiji.

Sayed-Khaiyum says Rabuka carried out two coups in 1987 and many people forget that.

He says Rabuka is the same man who only a few years ago had said land in Fiji should be nationalised, including i-Taukei land and today he is saying it is safe and asks which one is it.

He asks how can you trust the leader of People’s Alliance who he again called ‘PAPI’.

Sayed-Khaiyum adds this man seems to be apologising every week for the past number of years.