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  • Buhari’s ill-health: ‘Fani-Kayode‎ is a spoilt child, hardly talks like human being’ – Okorocha

    Buhari’s ill-health: ‘Fani-Kayode‎ is a spoilt child, hardly talks like human being’ – Okorocha

    The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has reacted to statement credited to former aviation minister, Femi Fani Kayode concerning the images showing All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftains in Abuja House, London with President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Fani-Kayode had described the images as fake and added that Okorocha, who conveyed the message, was a liar.

    In his reaction to the former minister’s claim, Okorocha described him as a spoilt child.

    The governor responded through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, saying, “The guy (Fani-Kayode) is a spoilt child, one of those whose parents over pampered they hardly talk like human beings. Apart from somebody who went into government, he is not known for doing business.

    “I wonder if he has ever worked and all of a sudden he had political appointment.

    “He has nothing else to brandish apart from the father’s name. Remove his father’s name; I don’t think he is a human being.
    “Rochas grew from the scratch. By the grace of God and hard work, he is where he is today. But that one apart from coming to politics what else does he have to brandish?”

  • Buhari not feeling better,will never return as President, says Fani-Kayode

    Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode is furious with the Acting President Yemi Osinajo for lying about the president’s condition.

    He has thrown a challenge to the Acting President and the rumoured cabal to put the president on television to corroborate their claims that he is “recovering fast” and would soon return.

    On Tuesday night, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo had jetted to London for a quick trip to see the president. Osinbajo said he spoke with the president for over an hour and “he is in good spirits”

    As if in possession of the real facts, Fani-Kayode disputes this claim in a short article he circulated on the internet.

    “I am constrained to tell the Nigerian people that President Buhari is NOT better and he will NEVER return as President.

    The truth is that his situation is pathetic and critical.

    Acting President Osinbajo should STOP the lies!

    Nigerians have a RIGHT to know the truth.

    I call on the cabal to stop the cover up and show us our President!

    I challenge them to put him in front of a camera and let him talk!

    I challenge them to let him tell us what country he is in, who the leader of that country is, what date it is and what the weather is like outside.

    I challenge them to give us proof of life and proof of lucidity.

    I challenge them to prove to us that he is familiar with his environment and that he knows who he is seeing, who he is talking to and what he is saying.

    I challenge them to prove to us that he is not suffering from chronic dementia and that he is not a vegetable that is hooked up to a life-support machine.

    I put it to them that if they refuse to do any or all of these things it means that there is more to the whole thing than meets the eye and they have something hideous and very ugly to hide.

    It has been 65 long days since Buhari left Nigeria and since our people last saw him.

    He is OUR President, we care for him and we have a right to know the truth about his welfare, his medical condition and his situation”- Chief Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK)

  • Fani-Kayode: Court adjourns trial till July 7

    A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday adjourned the trial of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode until July 7, due to his counsel’s ill health.

    The court on April 25 adjourned the matter for cross examination after the testimony of the first prosecution witness, Mr Victor Ehiabhi.

    At the resumed hearing, the defence counsel, Abubakar Yusuf, who stood in for Ahmed Raji (SAN), informed the court that the defence would not be able to cross examine the witness due to Raji’s absence.

    Yusuf said that Raji was currently receiving treatment abroad and the prosecution had been informed of the development.

    The prosecuting counsel, Mr Johnson Ojogbane, who did not oppose the application for an adjournment, urged the court to make sure the defence cross examined the witness on the next adjourned date.

    After listening to both counsel, Justice John Tsoho adjourned the matter until July 7 for the cross examination of the first prosecution witness and continuation of trial.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Fani-Kayode was arraigned by EFCC before Justice Tsoho, on a fresh five-count charge bordering on money laundering.

    The ex-aviation minister was accused of allegedly collecting N26 million from the office of the former National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, and using same for media campaign.

    Fani-Kayode is also facing another 17-count charge of money laundering before the Lagos division of the court.

     

     

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  • Kate Henshaw slams Fani-Kayode over linking her to anti-Biafra article

    Kate Henshaw slams Fani-Kayode over linking her to anti-Biafra article

    Nollywood actress, on Thursday slammed Femi Fani-Kayode for erroneously ascribing an article about Biafra to her and later attacking her in a rejoinder.The piece titled ‘Biafra without our Consent’ was written by a certain Ken Henshaw but the former minister of aviation supposed it was written by the actress.

    He titled his rejoinder:‘Nnamdi Kanu, Biafra and Kate Henshaw’s false premise’. When Henshaw discovered the false attribution, she took to her Twitter handle to spell out the matter.

    In a series of tweet she wrote: “I hear that your good self is writing a rejoinder to an article on Biafra credited to me. I am disappointed indeed. You at least know me even if by recognition and also know people who know me”

    “Ken Henshaw is NOT Kate Henshaw.

    “At the very least sir, you should verify before writing emails and spreading it round. Thank you with regards I will NOT hesitate to rain curses/abuses on anyone, friend or foe, who continues to credit THAT write up to me!! Get your facts right.”

     

     

     

    In his reaction, Femi-Fani Kayode apologized for his blunder and said he will make the proper amendments to his error.

    Writing on Twitter, he said, “My attention has been drawn to the fact that it was not Kate Henshaw but rather Ken Henshaw that made the comments about Biafra.

     

  • Money laundering: EFCC re-arraigns Fani-Kayode, Nenadi Usman

    Money laundering: EFCC re-arraigns Fani-Kayode, Nenadi Usman

    Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode was on Monday re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over charges bordering on laundering N4.6 billion.

    Fani-Kayode was re-arraigned alongside former Minister of State for Finance, Sen. Nenadi Usman and Yusuf Danjuma, former National Chairman, Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON).

    Also charged is a company, Jointrust Dimentions Nigeria Ltd.

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) re-arraigned the accused on 17-counts charge of money laundering.

    Their re-arraignment was sequel to the transfer of the case file to a new trial judge, Justice Mohammed Aikawa.

    The charge, which was previously before Justice Sure Hassan, was re-assigned to Justice Aikawa following an application by counsel to Fani-Kayode, Mr Norrisson Quakers.

    Quakers had urged Hassan to withdraw from the suit alleging that he (judge) would be biased as he previously worked for the EFCC.

    Meanwhile, before the re-arraignment of the accused, defence counsels, Mr Wale Balogun (SAN) and Mr Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN) had informed the court of their application seeking transfer of the case from Lagos division.

    The application was however, opposed by the prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, who argued that the pleas of the accused ought to be taken first.

    The trial judge then ordered that the pleas of the accused be taken.

    The accused persons however, pleaded not guilty of the charges.

    Justice Aikawa then adjourned the case till June 7 and June 9 for trial and decision on the application to transfer the case.

    In the charge, the accused were alleged to have committed the offences between January and March 2015.

    In counts one to seven, they were alleged to have unlawfully retained over N3.8 billion which they reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful act of stealing and corruption.

    In counts eight to 14, the accused were alleged to have unlawfully used over N970 million which they reasonably ought to have known formed part of an unlawful act of corruption.

    In counts 15 to17, Fani-Kayode and one Olubode Oke, who was said to be at large, were alleged to have made cash payments of about N30 million in excess of the amount allowed by law and without going through financial institution.

    Besides, Fani-Kayode was alleged to have made payments to one Paste Poster Co (PPC) of No 125 Lewis St., Lagos, in excess of the amount allowed by law.

    All the offences were said to contravene the provisions of sections 15 (3) (4), 16 (2) (b), and 16 (5) of the Money laundering (prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012.

     

     

     

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  • Fani Kayode out to destroy Buhari, Osinbajo – Yoruba youths

    Fani Kayode out to destroy Buhari, Osinbajo – Yoruba youths

    Yoruba youths, under the aegis of Concerned O’oduwa Progressive Youth Assembly, COPYA, have accused former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode on trying to destroy President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof Yemi Osinbajo.

    The group said the verbal attacks on the presidency by Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the PDP does not show that he is a true Yoruba man, which he claims to be.

    FFK, as Fani is fondly called had in the recent times described as a ‘slave to dark and shameless cabal’ in Aso Rock.

    “We have a Vice President who has been held captive and who is now a slave to some dark, sinister, evil and shameless cabal,” Fani-Kayode once wrote in an article.

    Addressing newsmen in Lagos on Thursday, the national coordinator of COPYA, Kola Salawu, said it was shameful that Fani-kayode who should be supporting his fellow Yroubaman, Osinbajo was hell bent on destroying this administration.

    The group said Fani-Kayode’s campaign is targeted on driving a wedge between the smooth running relationship between Osinbajo and his boss who are currently enjoying the best of relationship.

    Salawu said, “We will specifically address the activities of one Femi Fani-Kayode also known as FFK. You might have known him as the former Minister of Aviation that is currently scurrying from one court to another over cases of graft brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    “The alleged crimes date as far back as when he was in office as an appointee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He is someone who had the benefit of being in office courtesy of a political party which blatantly stated that “stealing is not corruption”.

    The group further urged Osinbajo to ignore the ethnic drums being beaten by Fani-Kayode and his likes knowing well that such characters are alone in this endeavour.

    “The Acting President must not heed the call for war being chorused by this rubble and must not allow himself to be dragged into dirty politics at the detriment of his spiritual and professional calling as an accomplished Nigerian before venturing into politics.

    “If FFK truly has the interest of the Yoruba race at heart, he should immediately declare a ceasefire on issues pertaining to the President’s health and surrender to the supremacy of Tinubu as the leader of the Yoruba nation as far as Nigerian politics is concerned. He has unequivocally demanded a ceasefire from all peace-loving Yoruba sons and daughters in the media and holding other assets of propaganda.
    “We demand that Femi Fani-Kayode and his likes immediately withdraw the call for war in the interest of the country’s peace and unity.”

  • How I received N26m from Dasuki for Fani-Kayode – Police officer

    How I received N26m from Dasuki for Fani-Kayode – Police officer

    A police officer, Mr. Victor Ehiabhi, on Tuesday, narrated to a Federal High Court in Abuja, how he received a cash sum of N26m from the Office of the National Security Adviser on behalf of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode.

    Ehiabhi, an Intelligence Operative with the Force Intelligence Bureau, said he was then serving as the ex- minister’s security aide.

    The police officer, who was testifying as the first prosecution witness in Fani-Kayode’s ongoing trial, said he was deployed from the bureau’s Very Important Persons Protection Unit, to serve as the defendant’s security aide.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC had on November 11, 2016, arraigned Fani-Kayode on five counts including alleged diversion of N26m, which he allegedly received from the then NSA, Sambo Dasuki, to pay for an unspecified contract.

    The EFCC accused the ex-minister of receiving the N26m from the Office of the NSA while he was the Director of Media and Publicity for the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation.

    The EFCC also accused the former minister of transacting with the said N26m without going through financial institution as required under the Money Laundering Act.

    Led by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Johnson Ojogbane, Ehiabhi said on Tuesday that he received the money from NSA office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in company with the domestic staff of Fani-Kayode, while the ex-minister was out of town.

    He said the cash was loaded into a small bag.

    The witness said, “On November 21, 2014, on that fateful day, my principal travelled out of town and he detailed me to be within town.

    “The gardener and other domestic staff were also around within the premises. The house is at Aso Drive Abuja.

    “One of the gardeners, called Francis, called me on phone and told me that the defendant had called him on phone that I should accompany him (Francis) and another domestic staff, Esther, to the National Security Adviser’s office at the Villa.

    “And not too long after, the defendant himself called me and told me the same thing.

    “The driver named Kenneth was directed to drive us to the venue.

    “We moved to the venue at Suleiman Barawo Street in the Villa.

    “While at the venue, the driver, Kenneth, and the gardener, Francis, were asked to stay in the compound while I and Esther walked into the building.

    “We identified ourselves as personnel of the defendant.

    “The staff in the office asked who was Victor. I answered I was the one.

    “They asked me to tender my identity card and I did.

    “The man in the office brought out a paper and asked me to endorse it on behalf of the defendant.

    “The sum of the N26m was written on the document for the defendant.

    “I initially decided not to endorse the document on behalf of the defendant.

    “But the man in the office insisted that since I was the policeman I should be the one to endorse the document, so I signed it.

    “The man in the office brought out the sum of N26m in N1,000 denominations, and put it in one ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bag. He gave it to us, Esther and I, for the defendant.

    “We took it out of the office and beckoned on Francis and Kenneth to take it to the booth.

    “So we departed from the house and departed to house of the defendant with the money.

    “On getting to the house, we took it inside the house.

    As of the time the money was taken to the house, the defendant had not returned. As I said earlier he had travelled out of town.”

    He said on Fani-Kayode’s return, the former minister invited him and others involved in moving the money home and thanked them.

    He said, “The defendant had called me on phone and told me to ensure maximum security within the house until his arrival.

    “On the same day, at about 11 pm, the defendant returned. When the defendant returned from his journey, he acknowledged the money and he sent for us, myself, Esther and thanked us.

    “Subsequently I was invited by the EFCC. On getting to the office of the EFCC, I was asked if I ever worked with the defendant and I said yes.

    “While answering the question, the personnel brought out the document that I signed at the Office of the National Security Adviser on November 21, 2014.

    “There and then I was made to write a statement. I did.”

    Fani-Kayode was represented by his counsel, Mr. Wale Balogun, who sought an adjournment of case for cross-examination.

    Justice Tsoho however fixed June 6 for cross-examination of the witness.

  • Nigeria should break up now – Fani-Kayode

    A former minister of aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Femi Fani-Kayode has called for the division of the country.

    According to the ex-minister, the only way forward for Nigeria was to either break up or get restructured

    Fani-Kayode was reacting to a recent assertion by elder statesman, Tanko Yakasai who said it was the people of the south west that are “misleading the Igbo” into wanting to break out from Nigeria.

    In an article entitled, “The Sound, Fury of Ango Abdullahi, The Mendacities of Tanko Yakasai,” and made available to TheNewsGuru.com Fani-Kayode warned northern leaders to stop playing politics with people’s lives or begin to count down to Nigeria’s disintegration.

    He wrote, “I say enough is enough! The only way forward is to restructure Nigeria or break her.

    “Whether anyone likes it or not I have spoken the bitter truth. I have reflected the minds and hearts of millions of people from the south and the Middle Belt.

    “Whether they wish to acknowledge it or not, the truth is that If the core north does not retrace its steps, not only will Nigeria break into two or more pieces but people like Professor Ango Abdullahi, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai and all those that come from that zone will suffer immeasurably as a consequence of it.”

    Read the article in full, “A few days ago the Professor claimed that, “the north sustained the entire Nigerian state from 1914 up to 1974”.

    This is a lie from the pit of hell. The truth is that the opposite is the case: it is the south that sustains the north and it has been doing so from 1914 up until today.

    Lord Lugard was the first Governor-General of colonial Nigeria and the architect of the 1914 amalgamation between what were formerly known as the “northern” and “southern” protectorates of Nigeria.

    In 1914 he described the north as “the poor husband” and the south as “the rich wife”. Can someone please tell me how a “poor husband” can sustain a “rich wife”?

    It is rather the “rich wife” that sustains the “poor husband” and this has been the case in Nigeria despite the fact that he has been pillaging, raping, beating, abusing, sodomising and cheating on her for the last 103 years.

    If not for the south with its kind and gentle disposition, its liberal and cosmopolitan tendencies, its intellectual virility, its generous and accomodating population, its massive mineral and human resources and its never-ending and charitable quest and desire to be its brother’s keeper, the core north would be the poorest and most barren place on earth today. Professor Abdullahi knows this and so do all those that think like him.

    Without the south the core north would have been a poverty-striken, land-locked, waste-land and barren desert with little hope and few prospects.

    Despite all their pretensions they owe everything to the south That is the bitter truth.

    With his disdainful and disrespectful comments Professor Abdullahi has distorted the truth, attempted to revise history, insulted the south and been uncharitable and unfair to his benefactors.

    This is a monumental error and a grave miscalculation on his part because gone are the days when southerners can be intimidated into silence.

    I say this because a new crop of southern and Middle Belt leaders are silently on the rise. They are proud of their identity, history, culture and ethnic heritage, they have wholly espoused the nationalist cause, they refuse to be cowered, subjugated, intimidated or enslaved and they reject the notion of being being labelled as second class citizens or “drawers of the water and hewers of the wood”.

    The problem with people like Abdullahi is that falsehood is in their genes. Their submissions are manisfestly dishonest and their words are rooted in deceit, mendacity, doublespeak and, worst of all, misplaced and baseless arrogance.

    I believe that 103 years of a forced marriage, an unhappy union and an abusive cohabitation is long enough. There can be no fellowship with the core north because there is no common ground and many northerners view southerners as nothing more than serfs.

    We have tried for many years to plead with them to see reason and to let us live together peacefully but they have refused.

    Instead they have taken us for granted and they have taken our charity, generosity, kindness and meekness for cowardice, stupidity and weakness.

    They insist that In all matters they must always have their way and they must always dominate. They claim that they were “born to rule” and that we were “born to serve”.

    They assert that the rest of us are subhuman slaves and serfs. They insist that we live and flourish at their pleasure and that they have the power of life and death over us.

    They are the poorest and most backward zone and they have little or nothing to offer yet they insist that they must always wield the power and that they must always lead and rule.

    Yet all they bring to the table is rancour, division, strife and conflict, whether it be the quest for perpetual domination or covert support for Boko Haram and the Fulani militias and herdsmen.

    I say enough is enough! The only way forward is to restructure Nigeria or break her.

    Whether anyone likes it or not I have spoken the bitter truth. I have reflected the minds and hearts of millions of people from the south and the Middle Belt.

    Abdullahi and those that think like him must understand that their insults, their arrogance, their lies, their dangerous nonsense and their reckless and provocative historical revisionism must stop.

    The south has come of age and more than ever before southern unity and a common resolve has become a reality.

    He would do well to learn from the timely interventons of his core northern brothers like Governor Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna state and Emir Muhammad Sanusi 11 of Kano.

    Last week, in a direct response to his welcome assertion that “the north is now ready to divide Nigeria”, the two of them said that the core north would not only be the “poorest place on earth” if Nigeria were to break up but that the zone would also be “worse than Afghanistan”.

    They are absolutely right.

    Instead of insulting our sensibilities with false tales of a glory that never was, Abdullahi should get on his knees and beg the people of the Middle Belt and south for forgiveness for 103 years of core northern and Hausa Fulani cheating, lying, violence, aggression, insults, domination, subjugation, mass murder and ingratitude that we have had to put up with. They should be begging and pleading with us not to go.

    It is in the interest of his people to do so and anything less than that would be spitting in the wind.

    Permit me to take this opporrunity to respond to Alhaji Tanko Yakasai who is often referred to as an elder statesman.

    However when he described those that wish to restructure our country as “misguided” and those that wish to exercise their God-given and lawful right of self-determination and peacefully leave Nigeria as “shortsighted irritants” he did not speak or behave like one.

    A few months ago he also said that the Yoruba were to blame for everything under the sun and that it was the people of the south west that are “misleading the Igbo” into wanting to seceed.

    He appealed to the Igbo “not to trust the Yoruba” because they would “lead them astray and later betray them”.

    My response to him is as follows: the days of trying to divide the south with absurd and nonsensical tales that are spun and woven by desperate core northern bigots who secretly tremble at the thought of a united southern front are long over.

    Again the days of divide and rule and internal colonialism are dead. Whether the likes of Alhaji Tanko Yakasai and Professor Ango Abdullahi like it or not, It is only a matter of time before the people of the south and the Middle Belt liberate themselves from the evil subjugation and bondage of the Hausa-Fulani core north.

    If it is the Nigeria that the Legal Advisor of Miyetti Allah (the umbrella group for the Fulani militants and herdsmen), one Mohammed Bello Tukur, has just been appointed as the Secretary of the Federal Character Commission by President Muhammadu Buhari, I assure you that its days are numbered.

    If it is the Nigeria where 808 Christians were slaughtered by those same Fulani herdsmen in Southern Kaduna on Christmas day, 1000 others were butchered in Agatu, Benue state sometime last year and yet another 13 were massacred in Southern Kaduna on Easter Sunday, I assure you that the die is cast.

    If it is the Nigeria where Igbo youths that belong to IPOB and MASSOB are slaughtered at will, where Shiite Muslims are massacred in their homes and where the sons and daughters of Ile Ife are killed like flies on their own land just for being accomodating, kind and generous to the Hausa Fulani setters, I assure you that the bell is tolling.

    Finally if it is the Nigeria in which more Christians have been butchered and martyered than ANYWHERE else in the world in the last 67 years I assure you that the countdown has begun.

    The latest round of mass murder in Southern Kaduna just last Sunday brings bad memories of this Easter.

    Yet today permit me to plant a seed of hope for a brighter day. Our oppressors may have today but tomorrow belongs to us. As long as Jesus sits on the throne ultimately the victory shall be ours.

    The price for our new nation has already been paid in blood and nobody can stop it from coming to pass.

    For centuries these Amalekites, Chaldeans and Janjaweed butchers have been raiding our cities and villages, setting them ablaze and kidnapping our people to sell as slaves.

    We have to fight for our children now or there will be no place left for them to call home.

    The fact that some misguided individuals actually believe that this can never happen and that Nigeria can never break serves to prove the level of confusion, ignorance, darkness and delusion that flourishes in their sordid little minds.

    Whether they wish to acknowledge it or not, the truth is that If the core north does not retrace its steps, not only will Nigeria break into two or more pieces but people like Professor Ango Abdullahi, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai and all those that come from that zone will suffer immeasurably as a consequence of it.

    It is at that point that they will rue the day that they once shed so much innocent blood, that they once subjugated and enslaved the people of the Middle Belt and that they once poured scorn and contempt on the people of the south..

  • How Osinbajo ignored Jonathan’s call to allow PDP use ICC – Fani-Kayode

    Former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has said Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo ignored calls from former President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail in allowing leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP use the International Conference Centre, ICC, Abuja for their stakeholders meeting on Monday.

    Fani-Kayode said that Jonathan had called Osinbajo after officers of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, ‎barricaded the entrance to the venue for a PDP stakeholders meeting, but he (Osinbajo) was indifferent, and did nothing about the situation.

    The frontline opposition figure revealed this via his Twitter handle @realFFK. He tweeted: “On the day that @OfficialPDPNig was blocked from meeting at the ICC by the police, @GEJonathan called President Yemi Osinbajo to complain.

    “Sadly, Osinbajo did nothing about it. The encouraging news is that @GEJonathan tried his best and showed deep concern. That is leadership.”

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Ahmed Makarf-led faction on Friday convened a stakeholders meeting after an Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State declared Ali Modu-Sheriff as the recognized chairman of the party. The meeting was scheduled to hold at the ICC on Monday but was however barricaded by officials of the Nigeria Police Force who maintained that there were intelligence reports that both factions (Makarfi and Sheriff) of the PDP were planning to stage a meeting at the same venue (ICC) and it had to barricade the venue (ICC) in the interest of the peace of the nation.

    However, following the barricade, the meeting was later moved to the Ekiti State Government lodge.

     

  • Arrest of Audu Maikori and call to pray for Buhari – Fani-Kayode

    Arrest of Audu Maikori and call to pray for Buhari – Fani-Kayode

    By Femi Fani-Kayode

    Permit me to begin this contribution with an aside.

    It is only a weak, insecure, paranoid, wicked, heartless, ignorant, lawless and callous government that refuses to identify, apprehend, prosecute and hang the bloodthirsty, psychopathic and murdering Janjaweed Islamist Fulani militants and herdsmen and instead arrests an innocent and accomplished young man like Audu Maikori who simply had the courage to cry out to the world about the barbarous genocide that the people of Southern Kaduna and members of his ethnic group and religious faith are being subjected to all over the north.

    I am convinced that my old friend Governor Nasir El Rufai has lost it. He has literally been driven mad by the power that he now wields. If he wants peace in Kaduna state and in the entire country is this the way to achieve it?

    Does he really believe that locking up his critics and those that have expressed concern about the mass murder and crimes against humanity that are being perpetuated in his state by his Fulani friends and kinsmen who he publicly admitted that he sends public funds to is the way forward?

    Does he not know that the suppression of dissenting voices and intimidation will only lead to more anger, resistance, violence and dissent?

    Can he not build bridges rather than burn them? Can he not make friends rather than make enemies?

    Here is my message to him: the people of Southern Kaduna are NOT your slaves and neither are the northern minorities, the people of the south or the Christians of Nigeria.

    You can kill and lock up as many of us as you like: our faith will only continue to grow, we shall continue to go from strength to strength and we shall oppose and resist you till the bitter end.

    At the appointed time the Lord will strike back at you for your power show and sheer wickedness and He shall deliver His people.

    This brings me to the meat of this intervention.

    One of the qualities that a Prince must have is the ability to speak truth to power no matter the price, no matter the consequences and no matter whose ox is gored.

    Today I will share a truth which many may not like but which, as a leader and a Prince, I am constrained to share.

    Some have suggested that every Nigerian is compelled by God to pray for our ailing President. I disagree. I do not wish him ill or wish him dead but at the same time I do not subscribe to the view that I am compelled to pray for him.

    I would rather save my prayers for the thousands of Audu Maikori’s of this world who are suffering persecution and who are languishing in dingy cells all over our country for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

    I would rather save my prayers for the souls and families of those that have been cut short by the guns and bullets of government security forces, the bombs of radical Islamic terrorists and the matchetes and knives of the Fulani militias and herdsmen.

    When the Holy Bible says we must pray for our leaders the author was referring to God-fearing and Godly leaders and not usurpers and tyrants.

    The Bible says we must ‘resist evil’ and few would dispute the fact that with the economy in shambles, with the naira at its lowest value in its entire history, with the level of impunity and corruption in government and with the amount of brutal persecution, politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions and the massive shedding of innocent blood that goes on in our countrt today, Buhari and his Federal Government are pure evil.

    As a matter of fact they are a cursed government that have come to do nothing but spread death, disease, poverty, tears, hardship, suffering, division, hatred, persecution, injustice, destruction and wickedness.

    To those that insist that even evil tyrants are worthy of our goodwill and prayers I put the following questions.

    Would you have prayed for Herod, Pharaoh, Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar, Jezebel, Ahab, Athalia, Nimrod, Adolf Hitler or Idi Amin?

    Again would you have had night vigils or made passionate supplications for Emperor Bokassa, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Nero, Caligula, Sennacherub, King Leopold 11 of Belgium, Count Vlad the Impailer of Transylvania and Tsar Ivan the Terrible of Russia?

    Would you have conducted Holy Mass or rolled your rosary for Osama Bin Ladin of Al Qaeda, Muhammed Al Baghdadi of ISIL, Abubakar Shekau of Boko Haram or Usman Dan Fodio of the Fulani Caliphate?

    Again would you have fasted and prayed for Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Kaiser Wilhelm 11 of Germany, the Inca and Aztec Kings of South America, the Borgias of Spain, King Darius of Persia and so many more of history’s monsters and beasts to remain alive and to continue to torment and rule their people?

    Do you know that those listed above collectively killed or caused the deaths of over 500 million people between them?

    Do you really believe that they were God’s choices and that it was wrong to pray them out or remove them from power?

    Did God make a mistake when He killed Pharaoh and slew Herod for their wickedness and evil against the children of Israel AFTER their victims rose up in prayer and cried to Him to deliver them?

    Did you read anywhere in your Bible that the holy Prophets and believers prayed for the wicked Kings and rulers to continue to rule?

    Did Elijah not oppose Jezebel and did David and Samuel not renounce and stand against Saul?

    Do you not know the difference between a righteous ruler whom God loves and whom He installed and a blood-sucking demon and vicious tyrant whom the devil is using?

    Do you know the number of people this government has killed whether they be Biafran and IPOB youths, Shiite Muslims or Christian refugees?

    Do you know the number of Christians that are being slaughtered in the north on a daily basis by Government-backed and protected Fulani militias and herdsmen?

    Do you know that Buhari shares some of the barbaric sentiments and evil goals and objectives of Boko Haram?

    Do you know that he once said that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north? Do you know that he once said that he believes that sharia should be spread throughout the federation?

    Do you know thay he once said that Muslims should only vote for Muslims? Do you know that he once said that Christians should not be concerned about sharia because it is the limbs of Muslims that are being cut off and not theirs?

    Do you know that he once went to Oyo state and accused Governor Lam Adesina’s “people” (meaning the Yoruba) of killing his own Fulani people?

    Do you know that the Minister of Information of his Government, a serial liar by the name of Lie Mohammed, once said that it was wrong and unconstitutional to proscribe and ban Boko Haram?

    Do you know that about one year ago the same Liar Mohammed said that Boko Haram had been “technically defeated” and that a few days ago he said that it was “a fallacy” to say that Muslims killed Christians in Nigeria?

    This was after 808 Christians were slaughtered in cold blood on Christmas eve and Christmas day a few weeks ago.

    Do you know that Buhari is the third Mahdi of Nigeria? The first was Usman Dan Fodio, the second was Sir Ahmadu Bello and Muhammadu Buhari is the third.

    Do you know that their vision and dream is for the Fulani to be the “first amongst equals” and to conquer, rule, dominate and subjugate the people and numerous ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria in perpetuity and “dip the Koran in the Atlantic ocean?”

    Do you know that they have gone very far in this quest and almost achieved their objectives? Do you know that restructuring the nation or, failing that, a complete break up of Nigeria into two or more pieces is the only thing that can save the people of the south and the Middle Belt from serfdom and slavery?

    Do you know that Herbert Macauly, Bode Thomas, Obafemi Awolowo, Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Victor Banjo, Fajuyi, Emeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, J.S. Tarka, Isaac Boro, Solomon Lar, Josiah Olawoyin, Paul Gindiri, J.D. Gomwalk, Silas Janfa, Zamani Lekwot, T.Y. Danjuma, Jolly Tanko Yusuf, Gideon Orkar, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Tony Nyiam, Saliba Mukoro, MKO Abiola, Bobo Nwosisi, Franklin Atake, Alfred Rewane, Abraham Adesanya, Ayo Adebanjo, Olaniyonu Ajayi, Bola Ige and so many others that saw this satanic agenda coming and unfolding many decades and years ago and resisted it with every fibre of their being have now been vindicated?

    Do you know that the principle of self-deterimination and the concept of Biafra and southern and Middle Belt liberation is more alive today than ever before?

    Do you know that there are millions of youths all over this country today that are prepared to sacrifice their lives for this principle and concept and resist ethnic and religious bigotry, subjugation, domination and tyranny with the last drop of their blood?

    Do you know that those that have been subjected to genocide by the usual suspects for the last 56 years of our existence as a nation are now saying “enough is enough?”

    Do you know what northern Christians have been and are still being subjected to over the years and particularly today?

    Do you know that Igbo youths and Shiite Muslims have been subjected to crimes against humanity by the Nigerian state in the last one year and seven months?

    Do you know that Nigeria under President Buhari is a failed state which lives on lies, thrives on deceit, breathes on persecution, feeds on supression, energises on intimidation and is fuelled and propelled by the most basic, crude and primitive form of Goebellian propaganda?

    Do you know anything at all? Do you know how many people are being locked up and persecuted in the name of a fake and selective anti-corruption war in this country?

    Do you know the level of wickedness and injustice that is being perpetuated by this government?

    Do you know how many families have suffered and been destroyed by them? Do you know about the abuse of power and the gross violation of human rights and civil liberties that is going on?

    Do you know how corrupt and deceitful thiis government is? Do you know how much blood they have on their hands?

    Then you say that we should pray and support such people? There is nowhere in the Bible that we are called to pray for liars, cheats, sadists, anti-Christs, cold-blooded murderers and pyschopaths as our leaders.

    Rather the Bible says we must resist evil and injustice and stand up for the weak, the persecuted, the hungry, the suffering, the vulnerable and the poor.

    There is no where in the Bible that we are enjoined to support and encourage genocidal maniacs, the killer of believers, the tormenters of the faithful, the persecutors of God’s servants and the destroyers of the Church.

    Nigeria has no place for quislings and psychophants that are trying to curry favour with or impress those that are desperately trying to enslave our people and islamise our country.

    My position is simple and clear. I will never pray for those who I consider to be evil and I will never allow myself to be subjugated, silenced or turned into a second class citizen in my own country.

    Whatever the consequence is for my defiance, if the Lord wills it, let it come. Let us finish this thing once and for all. I would rather be a free soul in heaven than a quivering and gutless slave on earth.

    I speak for millions when I say that we will NEVER bow to those that believe that they were born to rule and that seek to impose their faith, their values and their way of life on us.

    Unlike others in these shores, those of us that are prepared to stand up and say “no more” are captains of our ship and masters of our soul.

    We either forge our own destinies, chart our own course and free our own people or we shall die trying. God wills it. And so it shall be.