Dianne Wilkerson, an ex-state senator whose political career ended after she was busted by the feds for taking a bribe, is warning candidates vying to replace Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson not to disrespect the disgraced city pol.

Wilkerson, who sits on the District 7 Advisory Council that Fernandes Anderson is consulting about the timeline for her resignation and transition plans for the Roxbury-centric district, told candidates taking part in a recent forum that any pitches they may make about wanting to “restore honesty and integrity” would not go over well.

“You have to understand that you are dealing with a constituency or residency right now, and I’m talking about Roxbury, who has never been feeling less represented,” Wilkerson said of the majority-Black community at a candidates forum held last Thursday. “To be clear, I am not talking about the current sitting city councilor.

“So, if you plan on running a campaign and talking about, I’m here because I want to restore honesty and integrity, then you’re going to miss me right from the beginning, because you can’t have it both ways.”

Wilkerson resigned from the state Senate in 2008 and spent more than two years in jail after agreeing to plead guilty to charges tied to a federal corruption bust. She was infamously shown stuffing $1,000 in cash bribes into her bra in a photo that was released by the feds.

In her remarks last week, Wilkerson seemingly cast doubt on the allegations tied to federal corruption charges that Fernandes Anderson agreed to plead guilty to earlier this month. Fernandes Anderson was federally indicted and arrested last December for a kickback scheme the feds say she carried out at Boston City Hall.

“You can’t talk about the reality of how they come in our community, destroy people, and then embrace the story and the lies as the reason why you’re here, because they’ll come and get you too when they’re ready,” Wilkerson said. “You’ve got to be running because you want to serve the community, period.

“Don’t tell me you’re running because you want people to forget Tania.”

Wilkerson defended Fernandes Anderson’s tenure as a city councilor, saying that she was active in the community and held informative meetings for residents. She mentioned that Fernandes Anderson’s tendency to allow community members to speak first at public meetings left Wu administration officials “pissed.”

She also emphasized that whoever runs for the District 7 Council seat should focus on challenging the Wu administration, and “maintaining the presence of Black people in Roxbury” at a time when they’re “disappearing” from the community.

“The biggest obstruction to Black wealth creation in this city is the policy of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and the Wu administration,” Wilkerson said. “We are bleeding Black people … We’re not sending councilors to the city to City Hall to rubber-stamp our own extinction, period.”

Fernandes Anderson accepted a plea deal earlier this month and is expected to plead guilty to two federal corruption charges at a May 5 hearing. U.S. Attorney Leah Foley plans to recommend that the 46-year-old second-term councilor be sentenced to a year and a day in prison and ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution.

After federal prosecutors filed documents on April 8 reflecting Fernandes Anderson’s intention to plead guilty and the terms of the plea agreement, the councilor said she would resign, but has not yet done so.

The City Council approved a home rule petition last Friday that would waive a special election if Fernandes Anderson were to resign more than 180 days before the November general election, as required by the city charter.

Fernandes Anderson briefly joined last Friday’s special Council meeting to say that the legislation is “moot,” given that she has no intention to resign from her $120,000 role before May 8, the time frame that would trigger a special election.

Half a dozen candidates had filed paperwork with the city’s Elections Department to run for Fernandes Anderson’s seat as of last Friday, but several others mentioned that they planned to seek the District 7 seat at last week’s forum.