– FFK said Buhari should openly condemn the killing by Fulani militants and herdsmen
– Fani-Kayode also took a swipe at the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Mr Femi Adesina
Former minister of aviation and the director of publicity, Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, have berated President Muhammadu Buhari for keeping silent over the killings perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen.
Mr Fani-Kayode, who was once a member of the ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC) asked the president to openly condemn the Fulani herdsmen who he described as the President’s kinsmen. He stated this in his weekly article article titled, ‘Of tyrants, martyrs and heroes’.
“You should openly condemn the heinous activities of your kinsmen, the Fulani militants and herdsmen,” Fani-Kayode said.
He said if the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government continued to persecute its perceived enemies, a national rebellion was inevitable.
“It is with the foregoing in mind that we must examine and critically analyse the performance of the Buhari administration. I have nothing personal against President Buhari and, as he knows, I have the utmost respect for his office.
“We must rid ourselves of our fears and speak the bitter truth. And that truth is as follows: If you want your country to remain together you do not demonise former President Goodluck Jonathan and leading members of the PDP and attempt to break them, humiliate them and destroy their legacy.
“The more our government persecutes its perceived enemies, the more it is sowing the seeds of disintegration in our country. The more they oppress and attempt to intimidate those they seek to silence and subjugate, the more they engender anger, rebellion, alienation, enmity and division.”
He said the President must, in the general interest, stop moves to silence the opposition ‘with sensational and baseless allegations and lies’.
Fani-Kayode also took a swipe at the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, who said that Nigerians should hold vandals sabotaging the nation’s pipelines responsible for the lack of electricity in the country.
“I do not believe in violence and neither do I call for or support the idea of an armed struggle. I am a man of peace and like Sir Winston Churchill, England’s greatest Prime Minister once said, I believe ‘jaw jaw is better than war’. I do not subscribe to the logic of force, I believe in the force of logic.
“However, when a people are pushed up against a wall and when a government has as its primary objective the silencing and cowering of the opposition and the destruction and humiliation of leading opposition figures, things begin to change very quickly,” he added.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that his administration is poised to break all economic barriers and set Nigeria free from poverty.
Buhari said this before jetting out of the country to the united states of America yesterday, March 29 at the Eighth Bola Tinubu Colloquium in Abuja