Femi Fani-Kayode 



By Tony Icheku 


Preamble.

Rather than admit his mistakes in falsely accusing Abia State Governor Alex Otti of refusing to hang the portraits of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Government offices, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode has gone ahead to amplify and colour his earlier lies, like a man high on psychoactive substances,  mouthing abuses against the Abia Chief Executive.


 In this article, Tony Icheku, borrowing copiously from an earlier article by the Majority Leader of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Okoro Kalu,  writes to serve a notice on Mr Femi Fani-Kayode that the political class are wise to his tricks as a Janus-faced Mercenary Writer 



 Mercenaries,  like prostitutes would always be around  as there will always be men willing to sell their souls for a messy porridge, like that  rapacious serpent, Femi Fani-Kayode. Yes, cast in the mold of  that devious deceiver, Fani-Kayode consistently ramps himself into relevance as a gun for hire.


Unfortunately, Fani-Kayode's notorious anywhere-belly-face ideology marks him out as a Judas Iscariot hustling  for a cash out at an opportuned moment.  Little wonder after the hard fought Presidential election while his colleagues in the erstwhile Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Council are being rewarded with political appointments, he is turned out from the camp like a leprous pariah


Dr Alex Otti with President Bola Tinubu in Lagos on June 28, 2023


Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who has done the most to remold this former drug rehab clinic patient captured Fani-Kayode acquisitive, money-gobbling nature thus:  “Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you”


Hungry, cold and alone, but ever willing to lend his ghoulish talents to the devil himself, Fani-Kayode began crying 'wolf in Abia Government House', concocting  falsehood against Abia State Governor Alex Otti to gain relevance before any willing to feed his insatiable greed.


Unfortunately Fani-Kayode just picked a wrong fight, daring a champion beyond his imagination. We recall this blackmailer, Fani-Kayode, not too long ago,  fastening his proboscis on Abia's treasury and sucking the public treasury to his hearts content. Here he comes again: The cunning mercenary he is, his intent are cloudy, yet easy to decipher. One, he plots to box Dr Alex Otti to a corner, and then offer his services as a go-between man between Otti and Tinubu.


Two, should this gambit fail, then he adjusts his chameleonic  posture and become attack dog  of President  Tinubu, against fathom political enemies, unfortunately a position for which no vacancy exist


But in  Otti, Fani-Kayode just came up against a tougher nut to crack, a man who rose to the heights he occupies today by dint of hardwork, strength of character and principled lifestyle.


Given to a vaunting air of intellectual superiority, desperation for filthy lucre  just demystified Fani-Kayode. If he had heeded Henry David Thoreau's counsel to desist from doing desperate things, perhaps Fani-Kayode would still be clothed with his last threadbare coverings of presumed dignity.



If not for desperation, a little social media research would have informed  Fani-Kayode that Dr. Otti's intellectual and professional tentacles has connected him to the high and mighty, including  President Tinubu long before politics.


Indeed as a former Chief Executive of the defunct Diamond Bank, Dr. Otti had and has continued to enjoy good personal relations with the President. Thus crumbles Fani-Kayode's divisive and luciferian propaganda to tar the Abia governor 



While one  concedes  that Fani-Kayode is a clever merchant of the Phariseen hue, wearing  the cassock of a moralist, and spouting quotes from the Bible, he is really a scion of the old  Devil.


Having perfected the art of political sorcery, he enchants and conjures chimeras such that unwary,  not grounded in sound reasoning and in things holy and edifying,  can easily be enticed by his political portions and mirages.


The Femi Fani-Kayode personae is better understood in the postulation of Steve Maraboli that “people tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance.” For a long time, Fani-Kayode has been allowed to run amock sharing his twisted logic and spewing his ignorance, secret fear of failure and internal self contradiction with false braggadocio all over the place.


It is surprising that the Nigerian political establishment has allowed a man that has failed in every material particular to clown about with them. Well, in every court, there are palace jesters and entertainers. If not, how can a man that is given to the serial abuse of women, facing multiple corruption charges from outright stealing of government funds to forging medical report (see: https://www.channelstv.com/2022/02/26/how-fani-kayode-paid-me-n820000-for-forged-medical-report-witness/) thrive if not for ghoulish entertainment?


A poor soul without any political capital other than the noisy vuvuzela that he is, it will be an interesting prospect for Mr. Fani-Kayode to run for elections or show which polling booth he has won all his miserable and disjointed life. If he is so persuaded of his relevance other than hanging on to a fast fading pedigree, he should show which enterprise he has run and that is thriving to make him believe he should have a say amongst men of industry and positive ability.


A peep into his jaded history will show a conflicted, Janus-like individual with no moral fibre, but a hollow, shallow, and whining baby in an adult body. It is pertinent to show the duplicitous nature of Fani-Kayode:


On July 17, 2017, in his usual magisterial outburst, Mr. Fani-Kayode had this to say of the now ruling All Progressives Congress (see: https://dailypost.ng/2017/07/17/femi-fani-kayode-apc-cult-death/): “The truth is that it is the APC that are the stinking corpses and the rotting cadavers and not the PDP. They smell like rotting Chinese fish and a Calcutta brothel all rolled into one.


“They stink to high heavens and they have fouled up the Nigerian space with their compelling and overwhelming stench and their fecal aroma.”


Before then, on July 2, 2014, he said this of immediate past Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the APC, (see: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/164295-let-us-meet-in-court-fani-kayode-challenges-apc.html?tztc=1):


 “I repeat you are a pernicious liar and a shameless coward and your party is filled with such people. The truth is that you are not fit to hold power. Permit me to reiterate that I am not shying away from anything that I said in my interview with Channels TV on June 30th and if you think that I am doing so you are sadly mistaken.”


These are but few of the many hate-filled, dangerous rhetoric and mudslinging that  Fani-Kayode has engaged in, all his life. But as an 'any- where-belly-face” character, it is not surprising that he makes volte face at any time his daily feeding bottle is threatened. At present, he is agitated that nothing has come his way by appointment and he needs to show he can yelp and prattle about issues he is ill-equipped to interrogate. What a pity!


Fearing that his jejune, pigsty and grovelling loquaciousness may deny him a place in the Tinubu administration, Fani-Kayode is now bellowing from the anguish of rejection to be noticed. Pity!


 

Hon. Kalu, member representing Arochukwu State Constituency in the Abia State House of Assembly had written on this topic in an article titled "A Political Merchant Called Fani-Kayode", we quoted extensively from his article.