Fani-Kayode Slams Ex-British MP over Comments of Tinubu

Former Minister of Aviation,Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has berated the a former member of British Parliament, George Golloway, over his comments on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Golloway had recently said: “I started to look into the past of the ECOWAS Chairman, Tinubu. I didn’t realise that he was a drug dealer in the United States. And the election that brought him to power is still being credibly contested as fraudulent.”

Reacting to the comments on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode warned Golloway, whom he described as “sanctimonious, self-seeking, self-serving, self-righteous, self-obsessed and narcisstic,” not to bite more than he could chew.

He warned that Golloway “needs to be careful when he throws bricks our way: unlike others, we Nigerians tend to strike back and when we do we hardly miss our target.”

The former minister, who was a top member of the 2023 Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation, said: “I had promised myself that I would not say a word at this time when people throw bricks at our President because we have already won the election and the battle is long over. However here I will make an exception because I just can’t bear it when these sanctimonious, self-seeking, self-serving, self-righteous, self-obsessed and narcisstic white boys start mouthing off about our country and our leaders. And of course these are my words and thoughts and I speak only for myself.”

Fani-Kayode said he could bear such insults and words from a Nigerian without responding but not from a foreign leader.

“The stereotyping of our leaders as being fraudulent, corrupt, drug dealers and God knows what else coupled with the usual asinine and puerile misrepresentations and stereotyping is not something that we will sit by silently and take from foreigners, particularly when they are from the West. If he is looking for fantastically corrupt, murderous, pernicious, deceitful, two-faced, criminally-insane, drug-dealing, callous, heartless, avaricious, bloodthirsty, blood-lusting, godless, psychotic, psychopathic, neo-colonial and hopelessly fraudulent leaders he should look within and to a series of Western Prime Ministers, Presidents and leaders.”

He said those Western leaders “collectively and over the last 25 years orchestrated, ignited, sponsored and led illegal wars and proxy wars in Middle Eastern, North African, Asian and East European countries and thereby slaughtered millions of innocent people, took away their dignity and self-respect, destroyed their lives, ruined their future, shattered their dreams, enslaved their civilian population, lumbered them with pliant and dullard puppet-leaders and pillaged, plundered and stole their national patrimony, mineral resources and treasure all on a false premise, a fraudulent pretext and a perfifdious, stinking lie….

 “Permit me to end this with some genuine and heartfelt unsolicited advice from someone who used to respect you and who has read and listened to virtually all you have said and all your contributions over the last 30 years: take our newly-elected President out of your dirty little Englander mouth or prepare for the mother of all wars and a great deal of turbulence in your murky, inglorious, meaningless and thoroughly uninspiring little life. Stick to your podcasts and behave yourself.”