Press statement from Femi
Fani-Kayode. Read below...
It has been brought to our
attention that Premium Times, a popular Nigerian online magazine, has alleged
that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode wrote the following words on his Facebook page-
''For rejecting Jonathan, Nigerians deserve Boko Haram''. This is false and,
needless to say, Chief Fani-Kayode has never and would never say such a thing
or harbor such a horrendous and heartless view.
For the last few years Chief
Fani-Kayode has been one of the loudest and most strident voices against Boko
Haram in Nigeria and he has continously and courageously condemned them. He has
also continously expressed his grave concerns about the barbarity and sheer
evil that they have unleashed on the Nigerian people and he has constantly
expressed his condolences to and support for the families whose loved ones have
been murdered by them over the years.
For Premium Times or anyone
else to allege that Chief Fani-Kayode wrote that the Nigerian people ''deserve
Boko Haram'' under any circumstances is not just mischievous but it is also
irresponsible and malicious. It is a wicked lie which is designed to endanger
the life and reputation of Chief Fani-Kayode and to subject him to public
odium, ridicule, outrage and opprobium. We challenge anyone that doubts the
veracity of our contention to go and read Chief Fani-Kayode's write-up on his
Facebook wall because it is still there.
They should point out where
President Jonathan's name was mentioned and they should also point out where he
wrote that ''Nigerians deserve Boko Haram''. We urge our friends in the media
to please check their sources properly before going to press and to quote
people accurately.
They should also treat such
matters in a thoroughly honest and professional manner and with the greatest
sensitivity. Since yesterday night we have been inundated with calls from
concerned Nigerians about this fake headline and we have had to go to great
lengths to set the record straight. We appreciate the fact that the
overwhelming majority of Nigerian media practitioners always adhere to the
highest standards of ethics and practice but when things go wrong, for the sake
of posterity, it is important to set the record straight.
Thank you''- Jude Ndukwe
(Special Assistant to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode)
My original text on Boko Haram
published on my facebook page
Anyone that honestly believed
that a man who secretly shares the same vision and core principles of Boko
Haram and who spent many years defending them can do anything but give them a
free hand when he comes to power is living in cuckoo land.
I am not surprised by all the
recent bombings and killings. I am not surprised by the resurgence of BH and
their new found barbarity, courage and zeal. Military checkpoints have been
removed from our roads so what do you expect?
Boko Haram suspects are now
being kept in prisons in the eastern part of the country in order to ''spread
the word'' and no less than 182 Boko Haram suspects were released on the
Presidents orders just a few days ago. Is all this just a coincidence or is
something that is dark and sinister now afoot in our country?
Whatever each of us may or may
not believe, one thing is clear- that Boko Haram now have powerful friends and
secret allies right at the epicenter of power and those friends and allies are
running the affairs of the country.
There is a much wider picture
unfolding here which the Nigerian people have yet to see and which they find
difficult to accept, understand or comprehend. There is a hideous and frightful
hidden agenda which is slowly manifesting before our very eyes. Though we
warned them, the Nigerian people wanted "change" so they must live
with the consequences of their choice.
One of those consequences is
the new-found audacity, courage, growing power and rising strength of Boko
Haram. Another is the resurgence of a clearly ethnic agenda which is designed
to leave no-one in doubt about who really owns Nigeria and who the slaves are.
Another is the destruction and
demystification of Bola Tinubu and his yoruba loyalists by his erstwhile
northern allies in the APC. Only a fool did not see that one coming and I am
rather surprised that Tinubu's followers are now crying foul and alleging that
there is a northern conspiracy. Didnt they know that before? Were they not
warned over and over again?
There are many other grave
consequences which the Nigerian people will witness, in a most harrowing and
frightful manner, in the next few months and years. May God deliver our people
and our nation and may we learn to make the right choices.
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