APC is like a beautiful woman that you saw, and you look at her, you feel attracted to her, you say what, that’s a beautiful woman, let me stay close to her, it provides alternative. You get close to the woman, you touch her hair, she smiles at you, you see her teeth and suddenly you smell her breath and her breath is absolutely awful and it almost causes you to faint. You look at her hands, you see blood on her hands, you find that she has questions to answer, you say goodness me, this is not what i banked for, i really looked at it from the outside
By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News
The former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has said that Nigeria is a troubled Nation, adding that Nigerians need to sit and recognise what’s going on in the country.
Chief Fani-Kayode
He said that Nigeria is at war and urged Nigerians to join hands with the government and fight against the Islamist fundamentalist instead of fighting government.
He disclosed these while answering questions from Channel TV on Monday morning.
He said “Let me say we are a troubled nation and a lot of things are happening in which we need to look at very carefully and need to sit up and recognized what is really going on. A few days ago we heard people killed in Bauchi, a few days before we heard 200 people killed in Southern Kaduna and yesterday we heard 53 people in the church, the church was locked up and the community was attacked by Boko Haram and then the church was burned to the ground along with a number of houses. It is very clear to me when you look at all these things that Nigeria is a nation at war and we need to be able to do something about this and reconize the fact that when we are at war, we don’t start fighting the government of the day, what you do is try to join forces with all relevant individuals, fight the militant, fight the insurgency and move the country forward.
”And that is where i think we are, we are at war, a nation of war. This war is not between Christians and Muslims, it is between those that believe in Islamic fundamentalist state and the creation of it. Islamic fundamentalist on one hand against the rest of us. That’s Christians and Muslims together and everybody else and we need to recognize that; and those wars is being fought in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and throughout the middle east and in Syria today. In those countries, it’s the Muslims themselves, the moderate Muslims that are fighting the Islamic fundamentalist with vigour and strength and holding them back and i think it is important that we need to recognize this in this country that every right thinking person whetehr you are a christian or a muslim, you need to join hands and fight the Taliban elements and Al Qaeda element and the Islamic fundamentalist and make sure they do not make the necessary gains that they have been making for the last few years.’
Fani Kayode warned that if Nigeria doesn’t understand the gravity of what’s going on the country, if the necessary steps are not taken, Boko Haram could take over the country capital just like ISIS is planning to take over Bagdad.
He said ”If you look at what’s happening in Iraq, the advances of ISIS, they have managed to take over most of the country, they are now on their way to Bagdad, the state capital. If we are not careful, if we don’t take this matter seriously, if we don’t become to understand the gravity of of the situation we are facing in this country, you may well find that sooner or later, you may have such advances been made on Abuja by Islamist fundamentalist and Boko Haram.
Fani said that the primary motive of the Islamic fundamentalist is to establish an Islamic state or to fight against being ruled by a Christian or a moderate Muslim. He added that there is no basics of negotiation, stressing that the only way to end the insurgency is to fight them and wipe them out of the country.
He said that they could burn down the country until one of them is running the country or there is an Islamic State. He gives option to Nigerians that they either stay and get killed or join forces with relevant authorities and fight them. Suggesting an alternative way to fight the insurgency, the former minister stressed that APC is tainted therefore, it can’t be an alternative.
Fani-Kayode explained that though, Boko Haram has support from Taliban and Al Queda, the group also has a lot of people within the country who according to him, ”have some levels of sympathy for the dreaded group”.
He said ” It is obvious that Hoko Haram has internal support, Al Qaeda and so on and so forth, It is also obvious that Boko Haram has a lot of people in this country who has some level of sympathy for them. There are some people in this county that believes that it suit their purpose for Boko haram to kill people in order to discredit the government, to destabilize the country and in order to bring the government down, what we nee to understand is that each time the bomb goes of anywhere, some people actually rejoice. As far as i am concerned those people that rejoice simply because they feel that this is evidence that the government is not doing its job, those people are just as culpable as people that put those bombs there and cause them to detonate and slit the throat of children and adult people.
Fani Kayode stressed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is not an alternative as many of its members have sympathy for the dreaded Boko Haram. He reminded Nigerians that in 2011, certain people made threat that if power was not returned to the North, they would make Nigeria ungovernable .
He said ”In 2011, we have to remember element within the opposition actually came out and said that if the presidency did not return to the north, certain people will make this country ungovernable. Three or four years later, we have seen evidence of that, we have seen that unfolding in this country, There is an attempt to make this country ungovernable, 100 of our citizens are being killed everyday, and that’s for me will give you some level of insight about what’s really going on here.
Recalling a comment made by a former head of State, now a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen. Buhari, last year, Fani Kayode said ”Buhari said Boko Haram should be granted amnesty, should be treated with same way like Niger Delta militant, that’s to say that they should be sent abroad, given money, paid monthly salary as so on and so forth, and that they should not be killed. That’s very interesting to me because iw ould have thought that after they ahve killed more than 15,000 of our citizens, At that point in time, this is not the sort of thing anybody of that statue ought to be saying.
Fani-Kayode added ” in 2001, right before the insurgency started, the same gentleman said that, in this country, he would spread Sharia, which is the cardinal principle of the Boko Haram philosophy, he will spread it throughout Nigeria. That was his stated objective as far back that time, he tallies with the objective of Boko Haram. Again he said in 2011, Boko Haram should vote only for those that would protect their interests. Again in 2011, he said, why should Christians should be bother when Muslims chop of their limbs after all it’s all Muslims affair and these issues gave course to concern”
Without stopping there, Fani-Kayode dragged his rope to Senator Ndume who according to him, due to his statements, has some issues to clarify. He said Senator Ndume has strong links, and know so much about Boko Haram.
Fani also took his whip to some members of the Peoples Democratic Party. He mentioned of the former National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Tukur when he described Boko Haram as justice fighters.
He stressed that anybody that has inside knowledge, or anybody that sympathizes or act as an intermediary or spokesman or as a defender of Boko Haram, being PDP or APC should be as an enemy of the country.
He added ”We only want to have good Christians, good Muslims that believes in a circular state that rejects the concept of Islamic Fundamentalist state, that rejects the concept of the idea that they cannot live or abide under a Christian President. We have been living together for so many years and we cannot allow these people to divide us”
Fani-Kayode agrees that politicians from both parties are far too resolved about the issue of Boko Haram, he urged every politicians should come out courageously should come out and condemn Boko haram every single day.
He said ”what i found is that, most of the opposition politicians spend their time criticizing the government not criticizing Boko Haram. As far as i am concerned, criticize the government as much as you like, that’s our right and that’s what we are supposed to do. You must understand that the enemy is not the government, the enemy is Boko Haram, and those that are supporting them covertly, those that are behind them, those that are encouraging them and those that are saying they shouldn’t be proscribed, those that are saying that they should be treated with fairness, these are people that slit the throat of children, that adopt little girls, that steal them from their schools, they are not human beings they are beat, and anyone who has good things to say about them has to be suspects.”
Fani Kayode debunked the believe that he moved back to PDP that so as to make the federal government dropped the EFCC case he has. He advised the Federal Government not to drop his case as he has been fighting it for five years and it will be so over.
He said ”I am accountable to my conscience and to God and to nobody else, and those around me that matters to me. God knows the reasons why i went to the APC in the first place, i spent almost a year there, and i left after one year haven’t come across what i came across there. I was moved by my passion and my conviction for this country for rightecousness and for truth, and i did the right and proper thing to retrace my step to go back to the family i came from simply because it was clear to me that APC was not clear to handle power in this country. You talk about charges and cases, no charges have been drooped, and i would prefer not dropped because we are almost at the end of that case, it has been going on for five years, nobody has discussed it, we have been in court last week, and we’ll be in court again too, and i am glad to be there, it has nothing to do with that.
I joined the APC in February, i declared the APC before the party was even registered. People said why would you declare for the party that ahven’t be registered, and i said it was an act of faith. I joined formerly in my ward in Ife earlier this year, haven’t been with them for one year, i realized i cannot operate in a two man cult, where people are not accepted for who they are, where you cannot have a different opinion from the leaders and i chose to leave, that’s my right and that’s my prerogative. I will continue to leave any group of people that i am not comfortable with because i don’t operate in cult. I have never been a member of a cult.
”APC is like a beautiful woman that you saw, and you look at her, you feel attracted to her, you say what, that’s a beautiful woman, let me stay close to her, it provides alternative. You get close to the woman, you touch her hair, she smiles at you, you see her teeth and suddenly you smell her breath and her breath is absolutely awful and it almost causes you to faint. You look at her hands, you see blood on her hands, you find that she has questions to answer, you say goodness me, this is not what i banked for, i really looked at it from the outside. I have been in the inside, regardless of what anybody said, i am not happy with what i said and i exercise my right to move away.
”I never question somebody like the former vice president, Atiku who changed party four times in a space of five years, i have never question Buhari, i have never question Tinubu, i never question so many others that chose to leave their other parties to join other parties, i have always assume the best in people and why should anybody questions my own motives and why should anybody lay expression on my own character. IT really doesn’t matter what anybody think, the most important thing is that we join hands to try our bests that those that seek to destabilize this country for political reasons in order to get this sudden Christian out of power at the centre will fail in their endeavour.
Fani-Kayode stressed that he was not afraid of the people he mentioned as he didn’t accuse anyone but only mention quotes and it’s perfectly reasonable within the law.
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