Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation minister who has been an ardent critic of Muhammadu Buhari, has send strong warning to the president to treat the Leader of the Indigineous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, with utmost care.
According to reports, Fani-Kayode added that the IPOB leader is the reincarnated copy of the trio of Chief Odimegwu Ojukwu, Major Kaduna Nzeoqwu and chief Nnamdi Azikwe rolled into one.
Responding to the President’s assertion that the late Ojukwu believed in on Nigeria as Buhari does, and if Ojukwu were alive, he would have condemned, unequivocally, the treatment that Igbo have endured under the Buhari administration in the past two years.
The Former Aviation Minister added this in reaction to President Buhari’s national broadcast of Monday morning, after his arrival from London.
“It is thoroughly uninspiring,” Fani-Kayode said instead of appealing to Nigerians for patience and understanding, President Muhammadu Buhari returned home after 105 days in the United Kingdom to “insult Nigerians” and also to “threaten them.”
He insisted that President should have appealed to Nigerians to be patient and understanding with him; noting that his administration has so far displayed “ineptitude and sheer incompetence” over the last two years.
Interpreting the six-minute speech as an imposition of Buhari’s will on Nigerians, Fani-Kayode lamented that the President appeared to have “failed to appreciate the fact that times have changed and that he cannot impose his will on others.”
As far as Fani-Kayode is concerned, Buhari appeared undecided in his viewpoint about the happenings in the country, noting that though the President claimed that his views represented the thinking of the majority of Nigerians, yet he has refused to accept the idea or acknowledge the legitimacy of a national referendum.
That speech could only be made by a “military dictator, a Caliph or a King” Fani-Kayode argues.
He warned that if the President genuinely wants to enhance national unity, “he must desist from his dangerous and provocative rhetoric,” and he must accomodate “dissenting views.”
In a seeming veiled reference to the animal imagery employed by Senator Sani in one of his Facebooks posts talking about the Lion King and hyenas, Fani-Kayode urged Buhari to treat “all Nigerians like human beings.”
He advised President Buhari to do “a quick recourse to the devolution of power from the centre” and to also do a timely restructuring of Nigeria, which he described as “a fake pseudo-federation and a functional unitary state.”
Otherwise, the critic warned, “the agitation for emancipation will become more pronounced, the
