‘Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another, —— Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest threat to peace in this country today is the barrage of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) conservative propagandists portraying falsehood as decent, noble, and patriotic. To these elements, the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public regarding the nation’s authentic debilitating state of affairs, but how best to use concocted ‘facts’ to coat their ineptitude and to deceive the public so as to sustain their hold on power which has so far lasted 16 wasteful years. The last six years under President Jonathan particularly, have so far been a colossal failure.
And barely a month to the rescheduled presidential election, Femi Fani-Kayode, Director-General (DG) of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation has come to epitomise the uncouth verbal assaults on the opposition and people of this country. What readily comes to mind when the name Femi Fani-Kayode comes up in public domain is what again this time. His non-biological names are falsehood, duplicity and contradiction. It is either he is arbitrarily supporting somebody or that he has chosen to come after another person, not necessarily for the sake of principles or national interest but for that of bread and butter. Surrounding him is a façade of lies about honour and integrity – which majority of discerning Nigerians know – have taken flight from him.
Though a superbrat lawyer with silver-spoon background, Fani-Kayode has not proved to be a worthy ambassador of his generation. He stands for nothing valuable – and sadly for egoistic reasons. Worse still, he defends such ills with rapacious tenacity. He talks without thinking, making negative impact on the polity in most cases. If truly, the only guide to a man’s character is his conscience, and the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his words and actions, according to Winston Churchill, then Fani-Kayode has lost all. He is a man of duplicity that relies more on own illusory personal ethics rather than inner chore character values.
In the days leading to the coming general elections, Fani-Kayode continues to justify his appellation of a Rottweiler with promiscuous rage against the interest of majority of Nigerians that are calling for CHANGE from the current regime that Fani-Kayode is currently supporting. But for the fact that he allows duplicitous personal ethics to overshadow his more inner character ethics, he would have known that the ‘Project Change’ is a compelling necessity that illicit propaganda accompanied by a bodyguard of lies can not halt.
Fani-Kayode, in trying to justify his pay and perhaps secure reprieve over past alleged misdeeds while in office, went berserk, attacking anything in sight perceived by him as impediment to his master’s re-election aspiration. Mohammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate was his first target. He accused him of not having school certificate result and of perjury. When all attempts failed in this regard, he called the military general a Boko Haram person; his bid in this regard failed. He sat over political hate campaign against Buhari; that move too boomeranged and when he discovered that the election initially slated for February14 would not favour them, they deployed the military to coerce INEC to shift the polls.
His campaign of “one week, several lies” is replete with libel and makes one wondering what has happened to his training as a lawyer. He confirms the fears of his paymasters about Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the opposition party, when he came up recently with a phantom plot to make Professor Yemi Osibajo, vice-presidential candidate of APC to step down for Tinubu once he assumes power. Such thinking shows the fickleness of Fani-Kayode’s mindset in his bid to retain Jonathan in power through irascible lies.
This unstable character, until recently, would do anything to promote Tinubu. But to him, the game has changed for stomach’s sake.
When it comes to backstabbing for self-survival, Fani-Kayode’s insatiable urge craves no noble limit. Close friends and political associates that came across this element had tasted the devil in him at one time or the other. Perhaps, it would not be out of place to perhaps say that if his father were to be alive today, Femi would probably not blink an eye-lid before betraying that illustrious man-just for flitting tokenism.
What has Fani-Kayode said of the APC, Buhari, Osibajo, Tinubu that he has not said worse things against his known benefactors and close buddy in the past? His other name is betrayal.
Femi abused Obasanjo in the newspapers during the first term of the Owu man and once he was called upon to serve in that administration between 2003 and 2007, he changed the rhythm of his music, praising the man to high heavens and describing him as the best man to ever rule the country. He once abused Jonathan on all media platforms describing him as the most inept and the worst leadership to have ever ruled this country. He is back to eat his vomit as he now champions clamour for re-election of the president in a very disgusting manner. In the end and routine style, his target might be to seek reprieve regarding questions over the way he allegedly managed the affairs of the Aviation ministry as minister under Obasanjo by this administration.
The only thing that earned him the DG’s job was his known trademark of doing dirty jobs beyond the limit of decency. His weekly churning out of senseless rants might have left those who do not know him bewildered. Those who know him can merely hope to see more of his odious public antics at play. In the days ahead, Fani-Kayode and his paymasters will be dazed by landslide votes with which the PDP will lose the coming elections. Charles Caleb Colton once said: ‘Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.’ At the moment, the political integrity of Buhari, Osinbajo, Tinubu, the APC and others championing the cause for CHANGE is too overwhelming for a duplicitous character like Fani-Kayode and his ilk to fathom. No wonder, they would stop at anything to bring down the roof when they should be telling Nigerians how to take them out of this sorry state largely created by Jonathan’s ineptitude.
Nigerians would like to know from Fani-Kayode how the naira got so devalued that it now sells for over N220 to a dollar under Jonathan administration; why it is after the rescheduled polls that the military under his commander-in-chief paymaster got the boost to seriously combat the Boko Haram insurgents? They want to be educated on what informed the call against the use of card reader by the ruling party. Our people want Fani-Kayode to tell them if the acquisition of the Aviation Village over 90 hectares of land by the president through his company is not greed and corruption. Let him tell us if the moves by the president and FCT minister, Bala Mohammed, who also got 40 hectares in the acquisition saga were proper and in good conscience.
Fani-Kayode must the nation know why there is persistent fuel scarcity attributed by the PPPRA to this regime’s senseless baits devaluation among others. If he has no answers to these among others, he should just shut his mouth forever.
Fani-Kayode should stop chasing shadows and face the reality staring them in the face – that Jonathan will lose the coming election. After all, it is almost certain that he will gladly take a 360-degree U-turn back to the APC fold once Jonathan is defeated and turn against his current paymaster. That is the true character profile of this fake democratic crusader in chameleonic garbs!
