Yoruba youths, under the aegis of Concerned O'oduwa Progressive Youth Assembly, COPYA, have strongly warned a former Minister Of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode over his constant medial attacks on the President Muhammadu-led administration.
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 native.
FFK, as Fani is fondly called had in the recent times attacked President Buhari on his health, saying that the president might not return from his medical trip abroad.
Addressing newsmen in Lagos on Thursday, the national coordinator of COPYA, Kola Salawu, warned the former minister against making inciting comments that could heat up polity.
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”.
“And it is on record, judging from the avalanche and plethora of cases hanging on his neck like an albatross that, he might have used his slot in government without servicing the Yoruba interest but on his’.
“Curiously, the same FFK is today constituting an obstacle to the Yoruba in the Federal Executive Council and those appointed into other positions of responsibilities by President Muhammadu Buhari. He is running an evil campaign of calumny and blackmail against the President and we think this is in the hope that he can drive a wedge between President Buhari and the Yoruba in his cabinet so that they can be shoved aside.
“This is likely FFK's own way of ensuring he is regarded as a Yoruba voice after having turned the Federal Government against leaders in the region.
“This Assembly wanted to snub him by keeping quiet all this while that he wittingly made it a pastime to insult the government and denigrate persons of other ethnic extraction in the hope that our brothers and sisters from the other ethnic groups would understand not to set stock in his ranting. We expected people would learn to disregard his verbal venom as the product of a man suffering violent withdrawal symptoms from an addiction to living off public funds having been brought up on tax-payers' money by a father who was part of government.
“Femi Fani-Kayode has however taken the proverbial sacrifice far beyond the indicated road junction in his recent call on the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo to take over government from President Muhammadu Buhari. FFK has backup vocalists in this demented call that has no place in the constitution. It is nothing short of a ploy to pitch the Yoruba in government, led by Vice President Osinbajo, against other ethnic groups in the country.,” the statement said.
Salawu warned Fani-Kayode to stop distracting the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo by raising unnecessary issues over the letter written to the national assembly by president Buhari.
The statement further read, “We are therefore warning that FFK and his likes are distracting the Acting President who assiduously goes about his duties as assigned to him by his boss, President Buhari. The recent issues raised by FFK in his incoherent response to a constitutional issue as regards President Buhari's letter, which was transmitted to the National Assembly, is clearly to cast the Vice President, who is now the Acting President, as a desperate person. This is grossly condemnable.
“This is not who the Yoruba is. The Yoruba man will never engage in the kind of treachery that FFK and his supporters are contemplating. We count President Buhari fortunate in this regard that he did not populate his cabinet with traitors, which means FFK or anyone with such intention would never find a willing person to do what they have in mind, which is someone to backstab the president. It is not who we are. And we cannot change our sterling qualities at this point.
“This by no means imply that the poison constituted by FFK should not be neutralized. It is important that the South-West see him for who he is. The action of people like FFK pitched a certain population of the country against All Progressives Congress (APC) Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who is reverend as a political ally of the President, but FFK through his unsolicited actions have continued to unsuccessfully paint the Jagaban in bad light.”
The group further urged Osinbajo not to be carried away by 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.”
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