A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, on
Sunday said only those who subscribe to what he tagged the Fulanisation and
Islamisation agenda presently going on in Nigeria would criticise former
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
The former president had in a paper titled: ‘Mobilising
Nigeria's human and natural resources for national development’, which he delivered at the 2019 Synod of the
Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, held at Oleh in Isoko South Local
Government Area of Delta State, said the twin evils of Boko Haram and marauding
cattle herders were initially treated with kid gloves.
According to the former minister, “They have both incubated and developed
beyond what Nigeria can handle alone. They are now combined and
internationalised with ISIS in control. It is no longer an issue of lack of
education and lack of employment for our youths in Nigeria which it began as.
it is now West African Fulanisation, African Islamisation and global organised
crimes of human trafficking, money laundering, drug trafficking, gun
trafficking, illegal mining and regime change."
However, reacting to the comments of the former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji
Sule Lamido in a statement issued yesterday, Fani-Kayode said that what the
former president said was timely and necessary, adding that millions are
commending him for it.
Fani-Kayode stressed that Obasanjo spoke the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth.
He stated: "President Olusegun Obasanjo remains the
only politically active southern and Middle Belt leader that understands what
is really going on, the grave danger that we are in and what lies ahead. He is
deeply courageous and his latest contribution that there is an agenda to
Fulanise West Africa and Islamise Africa says it all.
"Obasanjo needs say no more. History and posterity will
be kind to him for speaking the bitter truth and saying what almost every other
southern and Middle Belt politician and leader knows to be true but is too
timid and too scared to say publicly.
"With his latest contribution he has vindicated yours
truly and many others. I saw this coming in late 2013 and I told the world.
Nnamdi Kanu saw it coming in 2014 and he told the world. Asari Dokubo saw it in
2015 and he told the world.
"Afenifere, OPC,
YOLICOM, PANDEM, MEND, the Middle Belt Forum, the Niger Delta Avengers, IPOB,
MASSOB and Ohaeneze saw it in 2017 and they told the world. The Christian
Elders Forum, CAN and the Church saw it in 2018 and they told the world."
The former minister lamented that sadly the world refused to
listen, adding, "the world left us on our own and, instead of rising to
the occassion and confronting the evil, Nigerians went on bended knee to the powers
that be and acted as if they were not saddled with a major problem that was
bound to eventually consume them all. Now they know better even though most of
them are still in denial."
Fani-Kayode stressed that it is a tragedy of monumental
proportions that a nation that is so blessed with extraordinary human and
mineral resources should end up going this way.
He noted that for anybody from the core north to call
Obasanjo names for speaking the truth and baring his mind over what is
unfolding in Nigeria today tells you how blinded by power, insensitive and
callous some of these people are.
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