“Baba this is too much. Please respect yourself and stop embarrasing those of us that still have some affection and respect left for you.”
Femi Fani-Kayode a former Aviation Minister, has criticised former President Olusegun Obasanjo for ordering the Oyo traditional rulers to stand at an event on Friday.
The ex-minister described Obasanjo’s action as a “grave insult to the Yoruba people and our traditional institutions.”
Igbere TV had reported that Obasanjo tongue-lashed the Obas in Oyo state for not standing to honour him, and consequently ordered them to “stand and sit.”
The incident has continued to generate reactions among Nigerians, with many berating the ex-president for desecrating the traditional institutions.
Reacting on Saturday via X, Fani-Kayode said it was saddening that Obasanjo once known for respecting monarchs degenerated into bullying them.
“I am deeply saddened and utterly mortified by the way in which former President Olusegun Obasanjo lambasted our reverred traditional rulers in Oyo state and “ordered” them to “stand up” and “sit down” as if they were children,” Fani-Kayode wrote.
“This is the same OBJ that, once upon a time, displayed his respect, humility and I daresay greatness by bowing, kneeling and prostrating before our monarchs, even when he was President, yet today he talks to them as if they are his garbage collectors and orders them to jump up and down like a molue driver talking to his beleaguered passengers and a motor park tout talking to a bunch of jobless and worthless underlings.
“Baba this is too much. Please respect yourself and stop embarrasing those of us that still have some affection and respect left for you.”
