It is not all the time you respond to the inanities of fools; it is conventional wisdom of Africans that such actions usually come with its inherent risks. It is possible that, in such engagements, the normal human being is often confused with the madman. Nonetheless, the Holy Scriptures aptly counsel us to “to answer the fool in his foolishness lest he becomes wise in his conceit.” (Proverbs 26:5). It is my desire to respond to the random musings of Femi Fani Kayode on the purported detention of his wife and toddler-son in a Bank in Ekiti state.
The FACT as stated by the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) revealed that Precious Chikwendu, FFK’s wife, travelled to Ekiti state (she is not a resident of Ekiti!) to withdraw money from an account that had been placed on hold because of linkage with slush funds of the Goodluck Jonathan presidential campaign in 2015. She had used a Zenith account linked to FFK to apply for her BVN. Further security checks revealed that FFK had employed the woman to execute several fraudulent transactions, which he compensated with the handsome gift of Range Rover (sport) car. How else can one explain why FFK chose Ekiti state as the place to perpetrate his mindboggling larcenous impudence other than that Ekiti space is now polluted by gubernatorial fart?
Without a doubt, FFK is broke and needs money, lots of money, to service his self-inflicted afflictions of illicit drug abuse; he resorted to the desperate attempt at withdrawing from the account still harbouring over two million naira of slush funds through his alter ego. The ease with which FFK obfuscates issues is legendary. Anytime, his odious past is called to question, he finds it very easy to drag President Buhari along with him. Of course, he has found it convenient preying on the bitterness of the acolytes of the last regime, who are still smarting from the loss of the Presidential election of 2015, despite the humongous dollar-denominated electoral investments all over Nigeria! Imagine a serial wife beater calling President Buhari a misogynist? The other day, after abandoning his narcotics rehab medication, he declared openly the three Igbo women he had had intimate dealings with. One of his said victims later revealed that this bloke is a serial pedophile with the savagery of a cruel being!
It goes without saying that FFK cannot engage in any productive venture; he has gotten so used to huge free funds that it is doubtful if he can ever do honest business in this life. He made his choice on his preferences in life; it is infernal when he languidly clutches on red-herring ploys in his delusional attempt at confusing unsuspecting Nigerians. He constantly alludes to the profession of Christian faith and political opposition to the ruling APC as the cause of travails. We all know that that there is commensurate comeuppance for any misdeed of man. Of course, FFK, with his education, knows this fact but prefers to play the deception script. What is disgusting is the ease with which he throws stones at the President whenever another shady part of his life is exposed. The promise that I can give FFK is that, for every pebble he throws at the President, he should expect a boulder thrown at him. That is a promise and not a threat!
Engr. Rotimi Fashakin.
Rotimi Fashakin