By Charles Igbo
Femi Fani-Kayode, an Adviser on Media to President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has been described by a Group as a huge embarrassment to Nigeria.
The Group, Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, (COSEYL) spoke in response to Fani-Kayode’s tweet in which he called on the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to proceed on exile and never come back to Nigeria. He ominously added: “The sooner the better” for Obi.
Obi had earlier said that he was under pressure by some unnamed people to go into exile. He is in Court challenging the declaration of Tinubu as the winner of the 25th February, 2023 Presidential Election.
Fani-Kayode is noted for his, most times, shocking manner of speaking. In fact, he had said worse things about, and to President Muhammadu Buhari, his Government and Tinubu, but had shockingly swallowed his vomit and went back to them.
In a statement it issued on Saturday, signed by its President-General, Goodluck Ibem, COSEYL said Fani-Kayode’s call on Obi to disappear from Nigeria was reckless and unguarded. It, therefore, gave him a seven-day ultimatum to retract the statement and apologise to Obi.
It pointed out that if anybody needed to proceed on exile, “it is Fani-Kayode who has reduced the country to a laughing stock by his behaviour and utterances.”
It finally dismissed Fani-Kayode’s tweet on Obi as “stupid.”
The statement reads in part:
“Who is FFK to tell Mr Peter Obi, a bonafide indigene of Nigeria, to leave his country and never come back. What gave him such audacity to make such unguarded statement.
“We give him (FFK) 7 days to retrieve that statement and apologise to Mr Peter Obi for making such stupid comment.
“If there is anyone that should leave this country to a far away place and never come back, it is Femi Fani-Kayode whose utterances have brought serious embarrassment to the nation.
“Nigeria has been a laughing stock in the international space because of people like FFK who speaks carelessly and recklessly because of what to eat.
“It is high time we separated those who are making a statement and those who are making noise from our political and media spaces. FFK is one of those whose noise is very unwholesome and an embarrassment to the nation.
“We call on Mr Peter Obi to remain resolute, focus and courageous while pursuing to retrieve his mandate freely given to him by Nigerians through the most legitimate means, which is the court.”
