When I read yours, my first reaction was like – oh, our
brother has gone mad again! Of course, it is a veiled reference to the
vestigial deleterious effect of prolonged and unrestrained dealing in harmful
drugs. The manner of your summersaults – occasioned by the incoherence and
irascibility manifested in yours to the President - is clear attestation to the
permanence of the scar of previous contacts with drugs, irrespective of various
rehabilitative interventions.
Like any other
Nigerian, I read the impetuous and ill-thought out diatribe, from you, against
President Muhammadu Buhari. I am writing as a concerned Nigerian;
the presidential spokesmen are at liberty to respond to you in a manner they
consider fitting and prosper.
When I read yours,
my first reaction was like – oh, our brother has gone mad again! Of course, it
is a veiled reference to the vestigial deleterious effect of prolonged and
unrestrained dealing in harmful drugs. The manner of your summersaults –
occasioned by the incoherence and irascibility manifested in yours to the
President - is clear attestation to the permanence of the scar of previous
contacts with drugs, irrespective of various rehabilitative interventions.
Before I respond
to yours seriatim, it is necessary for me to point out the perfidy in your
belief that Nigerians have not read your book and fully understood your
well-rehearsed approach to getting Presidential attention. In the early days of
the Obasanjo administration, you attacked the former president with unfeigned
savagery. Afterwards, you were invited to serve as the former President’s
attack dog – an endeavor you undertook beyond expectation. Even the Federal Law
makers, in the performance of their constitutional duties, were not spared from
your vituperative discontent. In that dispensation, any citizen that showed
courage in demurring with the politics or policy of your principal, risked
coming under the hammer of your caustic tongue!
For as long as former
President Good-luck Jonathan did not bring you into his government, you dished
out unceasing excoriation of his person. The moniker- clueless President- was
attributed to you. Shortly after you were engrafted into his propaganda team,
he became the idol that all Nigerians should worship. It is
therefore for this reason that I see beyond your latest tantrums as merely
succumbing to relapsing effect of drug. You are indeed plotting another scheme
at ingratiating yourself into the Buhari administration. Unfortunately for you,
this current President is too focused to be fazed by your excoriation or
applause!
You said:
“your penchant for
blaming your failings in this regard on the previous administration is simply
nauseating and it does not serve you well.”
The fact of
history which, neither you nor any of your co-travellers in the business of
historical revisionism can controvert, is that Jonathan’s locust years have
laid the foundation for the current famine pervading the Nigerian nation. You
need to come clean on how much the Jonathan administration gave you for the
five months of verbal assaults unleashed on the real and imaginary adversaries
of former President Jonathan! Furthermore, I do not want to believe you have
suddenly added selective amnesia into the mix of the afflictions already
ravaging your being. Was it not Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, former President
Jonathan’s appointee as Chief of Defense Staff, who said shortly after
retirement that the last time there was any procurement of military hardware
was during former President Obasanjo’s regime? Is that not corroborated by the
supporting evidence of the office of National security Adviser turning into
cashier for funneling money set aside for security purposes into the private
pockets of PDP zealots like yourself?
You said:
“when the British
Minister of Defense visited you in the Presidential Villa the other day the
story changed. You did a U-turn and gleefully told him and the wider world that
President Jonathan bought arms with raw cash.”
Given your
admirable top British University education, you are expected to show modicum of
intelligence in your response; the ease with which you recede into fatuousness
for selfish-centered reasons really rankles! So, you are now unable to discern
the use of sarcasm anymore? Which other country, in our contemporary world,
ever did arms’ procurement with raw cash in ‘Ghana- must- go bags’ as Jonathan
government? Is it not clear that the $9.3million and the private jet used for
the transportation are both products of chicanery and dishonor?
You said:
“Despite the
challenges and constraints President Jonathan faced, instead of losing any more
ground, he rose to the occasion and retook no less than 22 local government
areas and virtually pushed Boko Haram out of Nigeria.”
Mr Femi
Fani-Kayode, would you, for the purpose of clarity, itemize the 22 local
governments that Jonathan’s rag-tag military rescued retook? Of course,
Nigerians know that, yours is merely mendacious spewing! You do not wish to be
taken seriously, do you?
You said:
“Instead of
fighting Boko Haram, you are fighting and killing your own people. Worse still
you have refused to defend our country. I say this because a few days ago the
Cameroonian military invaded our country, violated our territorial integrity
and savagely murdered over 70 innocent Nigerians in their village before
burning it down.”
The Lake Chad
multinational force comprising – Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger – was set up to
foster cooperation among these frontline countries bearing the brunt of Boko
Haram insurgency. It was part of the rules of engagement for trans-border
cooperation. In other words, the pursuit of insurgents by any country can
continue into the territory of another country in the coalition. You have
merely played into the gallery with this one. Of course, Nigerians can truly
discern that, for a long time since independence, Nigeria has just been blessed
with a truly patriotic leader in President Muhammadu Buhari.
It is easily
discernible that you are going down in cash to sustain your obviously
ostentatious lifestyle. Let me remind you that the days of reckoning are around
the corner. It was William Shakespeare who said: “The evil that men do live
after them.” I think your past misdeeds shall continue to haunt you.
What did you do to your older sibling, Atkins Fani-Kayode? How did you treat
your wife’s worker, Musa Leshi, who almost went to jail for the environmental
transgression committed by your Ghanaian-born wife- Mrs Regina Fani-kayode (nee
Amoo) – and her company- MENU INTERNATIONAL BAR/RESTAURANT situated at No 7
Randle Road Apapa, Lagos? See the bail bond document below and ask
yourself how it was perfected!
Let it be known to
you that the gimmickry of your letter is not lost on any one. The fact of the
matter is that the Buhari administration cannot have a character like you as an
aide, no matter how hard you try.
Perhaps, you may
also have tried this attack mode as a way of stymieing any future probe of the
improper slice of the national patrimony given to you by the Jonathan
government. This, too, has failed! This President, Muhammadu Buhari, is a
stickler for process, order and the rule of law. Should there be need for you
to answer questions on your show of impunity in the past, please be sure that
there shall be no hesitation in doing so.
I wish you a happy
new year ahead. Rotimi Fashakin.
1 comment:
he is a mad man
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