From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja
Former aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati lied against him. Fani-Kayode said he thought Abati was self-serving, adding that if he focused specifically on what Abati said of his own tenure as minister, he could not come to any other conclusion “rather than the fact that Reuben Abati is a liar. Fani-Kayode, who was reacting to an article written by Abati, entitled:
The hypocrisy of yesterday’s men, published in some Nigerian dailies, further said: “Abati sought to ridicule and demean those of us that served former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s government and that are not very impressed with the performance of his boss.” He said the essay written by Abati was nothing but the usual smear campaign and a crude attempt to intimidate, which had been the hallmark of the government whenever they were faced with even the mildest form of criticism.
Focusing on the aviation aspect of the essay where Abati said: “When one of them was in charge of this same estate called Nigeria, he shut down the Port Harcourt airport and other airports for close to two years under the guise of renovation…,” Fani Kayode said: “Abati indulged in a shameless and pernicious lie when he wrote that as minister of aviation, I ‘shut down Port Harcourt airport for two years’ and ‘allowed grass to grow all over it’.
“The fact that we asked President Goodluck Jonathan to account for the 67 billion USD that he squandered from our foreign reserves has clearly upset him. “We dared to ask about the money and so, we were singled out and targeted for a tongue-lashing and a long lecture from the Presidency.
Yet, we remain undeterred. “Abati indulged with a response other than to say that he told a shameless and pernicious lie when he wrote that as minister of aviation, I ‘shut down Port Harcourt Airport for two years’ and ‘allowed grass to grow all over it.’ “This is false. It is a classic case of disinformation coming from a man that is obviously suffering from a very low self-esteem.
It is clear that Abati, who is a journalist, has forgotten the most important tenet of his profession, which is that ‘facts are sacred and opinion is cheap’.’ “Ordinarily, one would have ignored his bitter rant, but it is important that I set the record straight for the sake of posterity,” Fani-Kayode declared. Relieving the episode, Fani Kayode said Abati only turned the facts upside down.
“Port Harcourt International Airport was closed on December 10, 2005, after the Sossolisso Air crash in which 100 people were killed. The crash affected the runway of the airport very badly and consequently, the then minister of aviation, Prof. Babalola Borishade closed it. “I was redeployed from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the Ministry of Aviation in November 2006. This was 11 months after the Sossolisso crash took place and that Port Harcourt airport had been closed. “It is clear from the foregoing that I was not the one that shut down Port Harcourt airport.
When I took over at Aviation, my priority was to carry out all the necessary repairs at Port Harcourt airport and to open it as quickly as possible. “I was saddened to discover that in the previous 11 months before I got there, nothing had been done and the contract to repair the runway had not even been awarded. “Consequently, within a month of my being appointed minister of aviation, we set to work and awarded the contract to Julius Berger at the cost of N3 billion. 50 per cent of the money was paid upfront and Julius Berger set to work immediately.
The runway was fully completed and the airport was in pristine condition before I left office on May 29, 2007, just six months after I awarded the contract. “However, despite this, the airport could not be opened before we left because the runway lighting system was still in the process of being installed. The Yar’Adua government went ahead and opened the airport a few months after we left office even though the runway lights had still not been installed.
“The record shows that from the day that I was appointed minister of aviation and the time that our mandate ran out seven months later, my staff at the ministry and Julius Berger, worked night and day on the runway project at Port Harcourt International Airport to ensure that we finished it in record time,” Fani-Kayode said. “And this we managed to do. It was my project. I sourced the money for it, I paid for it, I forced the contractor to move fast on it and I finished it.
The fact that the Yar’Adua administration did not complete the lighting system and open the airport for another few months after we left office, even though the runway was ready, is for them to explain and not for me. “I repeat that it was under my watch that work commenced, that it was rebuilt, that it was completed and that it was fully restored and after that, the airport was ready to be fully utilised.
“Given these facts, how Abati can peddle the lie that I was the one that not only closed the airport, but that I also kept it shut for two years, did nothing there, caused it to remain idle and allowed grass to grow all over it honestly baffles me,” Fani-kayode stated.
Rueben Abati has not impressed me one bit since he got the appointment. He attacks anybody that disagrees with the president without taking time to weigh the reasons for the contrary view, as if Mr president is infallible. If he continues at the rate he is going I can assure him that the temporary appointment will permanently ruin him.
Fani Kayode is a pathological liar-what about the money that was made available for the repair of the airport by the then rivers state government under Odili? He was alleged to have given your ministry over 2 billion Naira-apart from that did Rueben mention your name? Was the airport not closed-again Oby lied–itsa madness for ministers who served under the same party to go about abusing her–can the democratic party have her appiontees abuse obama because they served under clinton-that is afrcan politics –if u dont like a government u resign-or shut up–
Fani Kayode hasn’t still recover very well from his madness, this is too bad.
We hear much concern about terrorist activities in Nigeria. Many are scared about the plague called Boko Haram. Ironically, there is another Bubonic plague that is far more dangerous and from which Nigerians may have already fallen. God, only God, can deliver Nigeria from the impending kismet.
Many of us have been called different unpalatable names because of our insistence on due diligence. I was told recently by an insider that my name has been blacklisted by the worm-infested authority in Abuja because I lead an international organization called COREGO (Coalition for Responsible Governance) – a coalition that fights socio-political cum economic oppressions all over the world! I was also accused of sheepishly ‘following’ Pastor TB Bakare. What a huge joke? Pastor Bakare is a Pastor, and I am an Evangelist. We have different roles and functions to perform not only in the house of the Lord, but also in the psychological re-awakening of the sleeping minds of Nigerians. Enough is enough. Haba?
Apparently the majority of voters in Nigeria think the N1000 naira these criminally-minded politicians insert in the loaves of bread that they distribute in their campaign grounds is enough to guarantee their future. Beware of Nigerian gift, not only the Greek gift. The future that we were all scared of has arrived now to haunt us. Nowhere is safe anymore in Nigeria because the evil men are not only in power, but are also in control. When, inevitably, this Jonathan government is foisted over Nigerians again in 2015, there will be hell to pay. But men of God, men who have FAITH in Nigeria as a project, from all the religions, from all walks of life (not CAN members) will rise up to salvage Nigeria. It will make the riots in Egypt look like a friendly block party.
If President Goodluck contests during the next election, it would be like pouring gasoline on a fire and wondering why it won’t go out.
Alternatively, if Jonathan Goodluck and his kleptomaniac cohorts continue to add to government hand-outs, the country will certainly go off the more dangerous precipice.
One word for Ruben Abati (alias DERI); history has a way of repeating itself, and men of today will one day become men of yesterday. You were one of us before the bait, before the carrots, and before the glamour. Very soon, ‘afefe a fe, a ri idi adiye’. Got the message?
One wonders why mankind seems to always find a way to screw up a good thing.
All powers in the sea, in the heavens, in the air, buried or hanged, anywhere in the universe, assigned to punish Nigerians more than what they are bearing now, thunder of God, visit their roots from this night and let the afflictions that wrecked the joy of Pharaoh and his cohorts be their portion in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Evang. Kola Adepoju
Calvary Tabernacle, London.
this is just shielding light on the kind of people that surround Johnathan day by day i bet people are making constructive criticism about the government in power but it’s sad that the government in power is making destructive response to all the criticism it is actually good it is obvious that the kind of people we have in power at this time are set of big for nothing no focus no direction no accountability no positives contribution to the lives of citizens no positive contribution to the image of our country they can’t even answer to simple critics all we get from them is lies lies lies and attacks attacks attacks all the time WE KEEP COUNTING DOWN TO 2015
Abati is indeed a surprise to those of us who knew him before his funny appointment.
Fani Kayode or whatever your name is. You talk too much and have no respect for elders. Abati has not said anything new about your tenure. Some of us know the truth. I will advice you shut your mouth and enjoy your stolen wealth. Time will catch up with you all because none of you pen robbers are admiting your evil deeds.
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Your tenure as Minster of aviation was indeed God’s sent because you saved nigerians from the curse that bedeviIed Pro. Borisade tenure as there were serial crashes. I so much admire you ( though intellectually stubborn ) cos you never been a failure to any calling! Abati and their “snail drag” administration are directionless.
Yoruba talk – What have these people contributed to Nigeria? The answer is tribalism and exploitation of South-East and South-South oil while scheming to instigate conflict between others as they seek advantages to usurp – Awolowo legacy. A dubious criminal generation whose sole and prime political objective is how to undermine the Igbo – an Awolowo legacy. The facts on the history of Lord Lugard’s cage supports this assertion.
Onye Biafia, u should know that Kayode is OBJ boys. As far as they are not there. There are nothing any other tribe does that they will accept. You can see how OBJ went round nationally and internationally to criticise Jonathan administration.
Abati in his write up, he did not mention names. but they are ranting because he hit them badly one after the other.
This government did not favour this tribal tribe and they will never rest until they pull it down. Jonathan is not the best president per say, but what did OBJ did other than looting and legalisation of corruption. He is the most corrupt President in the history of nigeria and upon his age, he behaves like a kid goes around gossping and dictating who will be president.
Yourbas are dangerous. If u see snake and a yourbaman, first kill the yourba man before the snake.
Upon all the noise OBJ made, there was no improvement on power throughout his decade in office. No improvement on road net work. No improvement on fuel supplied and repairs of refinaries. Nigerian airways are no more under OBJ administration. Why should they be making noise.
OBJ days are numbered and all his tricks have come to light. They are no longer in power, let them allow those in power to contribute their quota.
A NIGERIA WAS KILLED TWO DAYS AGO HERE IN INDIA AGAIN……………… PLEASE I WANT OUR PEOPLE BACK HOME TO KNOW THAT THE INDIANS THEY ARE RESPECTING IN NIGERIA AND GIVING A GOOD HOUSE TO LIVE AND WORKING IN THEIR COMPANY IS KILLING OUR PEOPLE HERE AND DUMPING THEM IN TRAIN STATION AND ALSO REFUSED TO GIVE HOUSE TO NIGERIAN AND THEY ASK ALL NIGERIANS TO LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY…….. I PLEAD WITH NIGERIA YOUTH TO SHOW INDIANS IN NIGERIA THAT THOSE PEOPLE THEY ARE KILLING AND PUTTING INNOCENT NIGERIANS IN DRUG CASE WHEN MANY OF THEM HAVE NOT EVEN SEEN DRUG IN THEIR WHOLE LIFE BEFORE, JUST BECAUSE THEY CANNOT GIVE POLICE THE AMOUNT THEY REQUIRED………………………….. GUYS YOUR BROTHERS ARE DYING HERE EVERYDAY KILLING BY POLICE AND INDIA CITIZENS AND YOU CAN CALL ANY OF YOUR BROTHER IN INDIA ESPECIALLY IN MUMBAI CITY TO CONFIRM THIS REPORT……. I WROTE THIS COMMENT BEFORE I KNOW THAT INDIAN AND NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT WILL LOOK INTO OUR MATTER WHEN OUR BRETHREN BACK HOME STARTED SHOWING INDIANS THAT THOSE PEOPLE THEY ARE KILLING, INSULTING AND MAKING HOMELESS WITH FALSE ALLEGATION ON DRUG CASES JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD MONEY TO SETTLE POLICE AND POLICE NOW USE THEM FOR PROMOTION ARE HUMAN BEING AND THEIR FELLOW BRETHREN………….. PLEASE WE ARE CALLING ON YOU GUYS TO DO SOMETHING THERE SO THAT THOSE INDIA WILL REPORT TO THEIR EMBASSY AND THAT WILL BRING THE ATTENTION OF THE TWO COUNTRIES TO KNOW AND SEE WHAT NIGERIANS ARE FACING HERE…….. CALL YOUR BROTHER, SISTER, RELATIVES IN INDIA AND CONFIRM WHAT AM TELLING YOU BECAUSE EVEN THE STUDENTS IN INDIA ARE NOT SAFE…….. WE DON’T HAVE AFRICA FOOD AGAIN TO EAT BECAUSE INDIA HAS CLOSE ALL OUR RESTAURANT HERE AND EVEN SALON…. WE ARE HELPLESS AND CRYING EVERYDAY…… MANY NIGERIANS HERE HAS THEIR PASSPORT AND VISA AND MANY ARE DOING EXPORT BUSINESS WITHOUT COMMITTING ANY CRIME…. BUT POLICE ARE WICKED ON US AND THE CITIZEN ARE EVIL TOWARDS NIGERIANS
Nigeria is a fail country and did not care for their citizen outside Nigeria……. All Nigeria Embassies and their Ambassadors in Asian Countries and some part of European Countries are not doing their Jobs….,,,,,, THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS AND AM WRITING THIS TO MY FELLOW NIGERIANS BACK IN NIGERIA WITH TEARS TO LET THE NIGERIA GOVERNMENT KNOW THAT ALL NIGERIANS IN INDIA ARE PLANNING TO DESTROY NIGERIA EMBASSY IN NEW DELHI INDIA…….. I also want to use this opportunity to inform my fellow Nigerians that Indian Police and their fellow Citizens are Killing Nigerians and dumping them in Train Station almost every month……. Two Days back, A Nigeria was killed by India police and dumped in Train Station in Mumbai City India and Nigeria Embassy in New Delhi India is doing nothing about that….. Police always visit Nigerians in their house harassing them and making away with the valued properties and cash with a note that they will kill them if they talk and Nigeria Government will not do anything or come for their Help……………In 2008 during the Terrorist Attack in Three 7 Star Hotels and Railway Station in Mumbai city India…..It was flash on TV as a Breaking News that Nigerian Drug Dealer are shooting guns in Mumbai and after they noticed that it was a terrorist attack by Pakistan Terrorist and Nigeria Government and our Embassy did not do anything about it……. Two weeks ago a group of Police went to all Nigerians houses living in Kalina, Mumbai City India and carry more then 28 people to Police Station and after release them with the help of other Nigerians as we stationed ourselves in police station and the police people make it clearly that they did not found anything in those Nigeria guys houses….. But it was a surprise to read on News Paper the following day that 38 Nigerians was arrested with drug and charge to court and we reported the matter to our Embassy, but they did not do anything about the allegation and bad name leveled against Nigeria and her Citizens in India…………………. Two days ago, A Group of police man told 5 Nigerians that they did not want to see Nigerians or Black people in India again and their citizen and police will continue to kill Nigerians here in India until we leave their country and Nigeria Government will not do anything to them……. … India People have refused to give Nigerians a house to live because their police warn them not to give house to Nigerians and they always send our people packing out of their house within 24 hours without thinking of where the person would take his property to or spend a night because they don’t give our people time or days to get another place to live or take their property to…………………………… Meanwhile, Thousand of Indians are living in Nigeria Comfortably and Nigeria people and some Landlord are serving and respecting them and renting a good house out to them…… but here they refuse to give Nigerians a house, shop or even allow them to have freedom to walk around here in India and do their businesses……India Police have close all Nigeria Restaurant and Shops In Mumbai City and asking them to leave India and go back to Nigeria………… India Citizens always beat Nigerians on the road calling them all kind of names and whenever Nigeria report the matter to police, The police will tell the Nigeria person that those guys are Indians and they have right to beat Nigerians and they can’t do anything to their citizen because of a Nigeria man……………….. Therefore, i use this opportunity to call on my fellow Nigeria back Home to know what Indians are doing to their fellow Nigerians in India and also advise you guys to know how to handle Indians in Nigeria and pay them back because without teaching the India citizen in Nigeria a lesson…. The police and their citizens here in India will continue killing Nigerians here in India without fear knowing that Nigeria Government will not do anything to them……… 90% of Nigerians here has a valid visa, but police did not care neither their fellow citizens and they refuse to rent us a house and always asking us to go back to Nigeria or face death………………… INDIANS ARE WICKED AND HEARTLESS AND THEY HATE NIGERIANS AND THEY KILLED NIGERIANS EVERY MONTH OR WEEKS HERE AND OUR EMBASSY AND GOVERNMENT IS NOT DOING ANYTHING REGARDS TO THAT AND THAT IS THE REASON AM CALLING ON MY FELLOW NIGERIA TO KNOW HOW TO HANDLE INDIANS IN NIGERIA AND PAY THEM BACK WHAT THEY DESERVE AS WICKED AND HATED PEOPLE.
what are you doing in India??? If its no longer comfortable or convenient or safe for you to stayy there, board the next flight. I really dont know whats Nigerians are looking for in all sorts of God-forsaken places. . . how can a blackman with a brain in his head relocate to India, a smelly country with a caste system that arranges human beings on a scale according to their skin colours.
Thank you goldstein. Chika, What is an Igbo man like you with brains doing in India? Of all places to go to, u chose to go to a country that is 6 times as populated as your country and far poorer than your country. Just pack ur bags and come back to Naija with the next available flight. “Na who get life na im dey fit find money. All the best.
Come back home!!! What the hell are you doing in that God-forsaken-place called India?
Dis Femi Fani kayode is notn but a weired garrulous clown,always itching 2 be heard. Reuben Abati never mentioned any particular name in his essay or writeup. If Kayode claimed he never shut down any airport,then why is he jittery & thus fouling up d media atmosphere with his ever knwn trite refrains. It is said dat d guilty always runs wen no one pursues. He’s labouring in futility at preempting wat d law would do 2 him in respect of his pending criminal case b4 d law court. Abati aptly captured d delusional mindsets of some of diz characters he refered to as ‘yesterday’s men’ which without been particularly named in d writeup though nuanced,are already known to include but not limited 2 Kayode,Ribadu,El-rufai,Ezekwesili,Obj,et al. They have one thing in common- clownishly playing 2 d gallery. (08032740727)
I Taught this man was arraigned by efcc?What happened to his financial crime case? Fani ! Fani !! fani !!! … Ok !
young man pls come back home if u cant stay in india. We have our own matters here. Come and help lets rebuild nigeria to be like d@ your india
Much as I can not discount all that you have sid, I still believe that there’s no smoke wiyhout fire. Are Nigerians the only foreigners in India? Something must be wrong somewhere. I’m sure that you have not told us the whole truth.
There have been Nigerians in India for decades, why is it just now that they are being killed. Come to think of it what are you people doing there? My advise: Pack your load and leave. If the allegation of grug is true, no responsible government will allow this to continue knowing the implications, if not quickly nipped in the bud. It’s an open secret that majority of Nigerians go to India for drug business. It’s just unfortunate that innocent ones are now made to suffer with them.
Very funny indeed.
In defense of Abati’s accussation, Fani confirms that the Port Harcourt airport was never open throughout his tenure and for quite a while during the last incumbent’s renure before his.
It is quite instructive that these are the same people who are screaming that the GEJ govt has nothing to show, despite the renovations at the airports that everyone can see, 9 new Universities created, genuine efforts to change electricity delivery and renovation of the rail system
We have a long way to go to get Nigeria on track…Sure-P is not targetting poverty which should be its primary remit, and poverty targetting requires direct payment of cash to individuals and households in absolute poverty…living on less than 160 naira per day until they are fully empowered with capacity enhancement, capacity building of youths, support of small holder agriculture, multi skilling of youths with purchase of small business assets to boost self engagements…little innocous but important measures..not fanfare…yet..we know and can see that between OBJ and GEJ the latter has more milk of human kindness which OBJ parrotted but never showed
He couldnt even reconstruct roads in his own constituency…it took the GEJ govt to rebuil the Apapa Oshodi road, where OBJ passed for 8 years to see friends without caring just to spite Lagosians for voting ACN
Fani Kayode and Abati? Six and half a dozen. Both of them perfect turncoats. Both of them should be reminded that Nigerians have not forgotten who they are.
It is true that Fani Kayode shut down Port Harcourt Airport for two years and allowed grass to grow all over it. We regularly used Owerri airport which then very undeveloped then. It is true. By the time the Port Harcourt Airport was re-opened nothing was still done on it. It was filled with cobwebs and dirt. I was a regular user of the airport then. Fani Kayode is just a long mouth and an empty drum. He makes too much noise like his father. But the present administration is also corrupt and self-subversive. So Abati should equally keep his mouth shut.
HENRY or what is your name. I found it difficult to know Who lacks respect and home training between you and Femi Fani Kayode you attcked. I have no doubt you are suffering from Halucination or frustration. Why dont you leave Rueben ans Femi alone they are all talking to the chargegrin of their paymasters.
Its on record as rightly admitted by Fani Kayode that Obasanjo’s administration that he included Oby Okwesili Eze, el Rufai et al served, shut down Port Harcourt Airport for over two years. The question is what moral right do these “yesterday men” have to critically criticise GEJ’s administration. One thing we are enjoying in GEJ tenure at least is that there is no more state sponsored murder of political opponents.
Obasango’s ministers continue to be loyal to d baba- commendable. Goodluck’s mimisters are too big to defend their boss and jobs-commendable also.I think it makes sense to appoint politicians as ministers cus they can recruit nigeria’s self acclaimed experts as personal assistants. If one appoints pple who abandon him even when theyre serving under him, God knows what will hapen when d pres leaves office. God bless Nigeria. Nigerian.
“Port Harcourt International Airport was closed on December 10, 2005…However, despite this, the airport could not be opened before we left …office on May 29, 2007, just six months after I awarded the contract.” Is what Reuben Abati said different from this? “Abeg”, you all are in the same CATEGORY of monotonous lethargy of uneventful leadership! When the REVOLUTION starts, you all will explain to Nigeria and Nigerians how you mismanaged our common heritage or patrimony!
Femi Fani – kayode n Reuben Abati ar both 2 sides of a coin -shameless pathological liers; shameless opportunists without any form of dignity n integrity. All their learning is just 2 perfect d art of deceit 4 d sole purpose of enriching self with public funds. But l’m certain nemesis wiil catch up with dem; it’s just a mata of time
fani kayode, shut up ! let me hear something. a man of yester years.
Abati talks too much defending wrongdoing of the Government or abusing someone on behalf of the Government. He has forgoten that the position he occupies does not last forever. I wonder who will be your friend by the time you leave. Fani-Kayode too should keep his mouth shot and enjoy some loots he made when he was a Minister. Let him swear with his life if he did not steal some money.
What Fani-Kayode must elaborate further is how come Julius Berger could not install the runway lighting system with the construction of the runway? Did the terms of the contract to Julius Berger not include the lighting system? Is he now telling us that Obasanjo government made provision for only the construction of the runway and expected the next government headed by Yar’dua to award that of the lighting system seperately? How funny? Please, let EFCC come in and have a look-see.
Uche, how can Ruben impress you when you already have a mindset towards him and his boss. I think that Fani Kayode should bury his head in shame. This is the same IDIOT that attacked anybody who dares to criticise obasonjo rather than address issues, Fani Kayode will abuse and call You names. I recall his verbal tirades against our own Chinua Achebe for rejecting his masters national award. Achebe cited the burning down of government house in Awka by band of renegades with the assistance of federal govt. and the attrocities being committed in Anambra under the supervission of Police as his reason for rejecting the award. Fani it was who castigated Achebe calling him all sorts of names. From his own account on what happened to Porthacourt International Airport it was obvious that the Airport was deliberately short down for two years.
Thank you Abati for hitting this brood of vipers where it hurts them very excruciating.
This Femi Fani- Kayode talks and behaves like a child. Looking at his penchant of smallness in attitude, his comments would never be given any serious attention. He thinks Nigerians forget so easily. He looted completely the treasury of the Ministry of Aviation and could not do anything significant to improve the lot of the Ministry.
He should be strongly ashamed of his performance as a minister. I read Reuben Abati’s article and it contained the truth of the bad taste of people like Fani Kayode. They should leave the current government alone to carry on with its transformation agenda. And it is the rot they left behind as their interest was self- serving and how much they could loot.
Fani Kayode as far as i know is diminutive in wisdom and behaviour. His vituperation and vociferation surely cannot gain a hearing as they emanate from an agent provocateur and iconoclast..
Hear him, Mr Fani Kayode. The fact that the airport closed 11 months away from the beginning of your tenure as the aviation minister, and within six months of you taking position, you AWARDED CONTRACTS AND THE AIRPORT LIGHTING WAS YET TO BE COMPLETED BY THE TIME YOU WERE SWEPT AWAY. You indicted yourself. You did not even spend thime to do ma feasibility studies but you still awarded contracts so you could take your own cut and run. That’s what happened. You were quick in awarding the contract because the position was a payback to OBJ boys for their obedience to the “owner” of Nigeria – OBJ, as he thinks and believes. You were not appointed by OBJ to render good service. You were appointed to make money for yourself and OBJ. Let’s assume President Jonathan is not doing enough fast, it is common knowledge that you OBJ boys are now unleashed to bring him and his government down by any means. Oby , El Rufai, now you and only Gopd knows who next in past OBJ portfolio will come out to be recognized. El Rufai entertained us the other day by injecting the name of Ngozi Okronjo-Iwealla just to poison the relationship that exists bewtwen her and the president. That’s a cheap policial underground work that will not succeed. At least he revealed who the man called Obasanjo is and continuew to be, an egotist and self aggrandizing zealot. Even Obasanjo’s taking to biblical and ministry sudies could not change the man he is and calm the demonic habitat of his being.Obasanjo and hiserrand boys are only trying feverishly to divert the Jonathan administration from probing his dual role as president and minister of petroleum. He shared Nigeria resources with his errand boys and sold and marketed to the clique Nigerian’s oil wells and that’s why he cannot shut up his mouth. He is afraid one day someone will come to give a graphic account of how he mauraded Nigeria. Time will tell because our fathers and grand fathers will never allow him to go scot free. How I wish Nigeria could contract her legal services to US and Great Britain. Fani Kayode, Pro Borishade, et al will be in jail for life and all their loots will be recovered for the unborn children of Nigeria.
In fact, we should call a spade what it is.. There is no difference between Fani Kayode and Reuben Abati– their personalities, and trend of deceit. Considering the nature of do-or-die politics we’re nested in, the endless circle of corruption, and the tolerance of the populace, we would continue to be hoodwinked till God knows when..
This man ended up confirming what Abati wrote about the Port Harcourt International airport, the airport was shut by his boss OBJ, and was not reopened until they left office, Period.