History has shown that wars often start as verbal altercations before progressing into physical duels.
This is why wise men don’t hesitate to rebuke insensitive and inciting comments, especially when they are made by public figures.
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Therefore, the Nigerian Democratic Youth Front (NDYF) condemns in very strong terms the recent insensitive comment by a former minister of Aviation and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Femi Fani-Kayode wherein he insinuated that Muslims in Nigeria would have become an endangered species if the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi had been declared winner of the presidential election.
Fan-Kayode had in one of his recent senseless rants on Twitter attempted to defame Mr. Obi before our Muslim brothers and sisters by gloating that the purported leaked telephone conversation between him and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church makes him unfit to lead a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural state as a hater of non-Christians.
FFK threw away dignity and morality to spew venomous comments against Obi to please his paymasters ostensibly for speaking for the interest of Muslims and other non-Christians. Ironically, Fan-Kayode who is the one setting Nigeria up for another civil war with his inciting comments, has no moral basis to allege that Obi would have plunged Nigeria into a religious war within a few months if had emerged as president.
His hatred for Obi and inordinate desperation to please his paymasters did not allow him to be in tune with the reality – Peter Obi’s media aide, Valentine Obienyem, has since discredited the purported leak audio saying his principal’s conversation with Oyedepo was ‘badly doctored’.
But a man driven by avarice and prejudice like Femi Fani-Kayode would even feign ignorance to get his already dirty self dirtier for scrubs.
Several groups including the Free Nigeria Movement have fingered Fani-Kayode’s party, APC for being behind the failed blackmail. FFK particularly, wasted no time feasting on the stinking carcass of the poorly scripted blackmail. Similar insensitive comments by Fani-Kayode and his ilk fuelled unprecedented violence against non-Yoruba voters in Lagos State at the just-concluded governorship poll. Several lives were lost, no thanks to Femi’s injudicious, uncultured and inflammatory speeches.
His unruly behavior makes one wonder why such a despicable and disastrous fellow was appointed to speak for the presidential campaign council of a ruling party.
His track records show that he is a monomaniac glutton and an imbecilic bulldog, a political scavenger who is infamous for his political prostitution; a deadbeat father and a serial abuser of women; an incompetent fellow who failed in his home, career, business, and politics.
The Federal Government is endangering the unity of the country by tolerating his insensitive razzmatazz. His incessant incisive comments are setting the ground for Nigeria’s disintegration. He needs to be quarantined out of sight for an urgent mental evaluation.
The APC government may choose the continued engagement of the folly and foolhardiness of Femi Fani-Kayode at the risk of widespread civil disturbance and national insecurity. FFK has earned the inglorious reputation of the worst threat to our national unity, peace and security.
We, therefore, call on the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Security to arrest Femi Fani-Kayode within 48 hours, before he set the country in flames. We advise that he be detained in some psychiatric or permanent mental asylum. FFK is a rabies-infected dog that must be tamed before he spreads his rabies of ethnic sentiments, bile and hate that would be detrimental to our corporate existence as a nation.
Finally, we enjoin Nigerians, especially our Muslim brothers and sisters, to disregard Fani-Kayode’s fictitious, malicious and hallucinatory claim that Obi hates Muslims and non-Christians. Fani-Kayode, as we all know, is mentally deranged and should not be taken seriously.
Signed:
Dr. Gideon Obong,
President
Alhaji Usman Ahmed Yahaya,
Secretary
