Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has lambasted Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, for saying the federal government will henceforth regard hate speech as act of terrorism.
Fani-Kayode on Saturday said the declaration has proven that President Muhammadu Buhari, Osinbajo, APC National Chairman, John Odigie Oyegun, and other leaders of the party “are indeed a bunch of self-serving deceivers and self-seeking hypocrites.
“Worst of all they are the architects of terror and the fathers of hate!”
He wrote: “When they called those that believe in restructuring “opportunists” and “political jobbers” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called those that believe in exercising their right of self-determinaion and that are struggling and fighting for equal rights, equal opportunities and the liberation and emancipation of their people “treasonous criminals”, “evil secessionists”, “irresponsible souls” and “godless rebels” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) “a bunch of criminals and looters” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called President Goodluck Jonathan “incompetent”, “weak”, “gutless” and “clueless” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they described him as a “drunken sailor”, a “drunken fisherman”, a “kindergarten President” and insulted members of his family it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called us “wailing wailers” it was not hate speech. When they called us “PDPigs” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called us “baboons and dogs” and their wives called us “hyenas and jackals” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called us “cold-blooded murderers” and described us as “thieves and rogues” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they encouraged and clapped for a foreign leader who described our people and our nation as “fantastically corrupt” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they demonised our leaders and called First Lady Patience Jonathan an “ugly and illiterate hippopotamus” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called President Obasanjo and President Yar’adua “incompetent jokers and treacherous thieves” who “stole all the money that they were given for the power sector” and who were part of a “cabal of kleptomaniacs” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state a “murderer, cultist and gangster” who “has no character” and a “cutlass-wielding butcher and thief” it was not described as hate speech.
“When they called Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state a “loud-mouthed and illiterate gutter-snipe” and a “low-life danfo driver” it was not described as hate speech.”
