Femi Fani-Kayode

As a consequence of the intervention of numerous highly respected leaders for whom I have the greatest admiration a ceasefire between myself and my friend and brother Bobby Dee is now in place. I will make no more comments about him and hopefully he will do same. We are both Nigerians and we share common values even though we disagree politically. I believe we can both move on with our lives peacefully as from today despite the hurtful things that were said on both sides over the last 24 hours. I thank all those that intervened and I hope that the ceasefire will hold. Shalom.

DELE MOMODU: FROM BREAD-HAWKER TO POLITICAL PROSTITUTE AND GLUTTON OF THE AGES Apologies to my dear aburo Kayode Ajulo SAN and others that have said I should leave the Dele Momodu alone. When Dele was at University he was a fraudulent rain maker who claimed to be able to "tie the rain" for people on the day they were having special outdoor events. He duped the owner of a beauty pageant in this way on 1982 collected his money yet the rain still fell. After leaving University he couldn't get a job so he started off as a bread hawker on the street after getting a 3rd class degree in Yoruba at OAU. He was spotted on the street by MKO Abiola who bought him shoes and put him in charge of his Wonder Bakery. He eventually brushed up on his english and spelling and became a journalist and later an Editor in MKO's Concorde Newspaper. He followed MKO around and later betrayed him. After MKO was locked up he attached himself to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and collected handouts from him for years. After that he started taking pictures of people with his Ovation magazine. He failed in all these endeavours and everything he attempted to do always crashed. So he went into politics, ran for President and got one vote. His ambition crashed. He became a spokesman for Atiku and was the only person that did not want power to come to the South in 2023. We are approaching 2027 and he wants power to go back to the North already calling PBAT who once fed him a dictator. Is this guy OK at all? Everything about him eventually crashes and just as he crashed Atiku's campaign and ambition in 2023 so he will crash it again in 2027. Let me go a little further. Dele's pattern of betrayal cannot be denied. It is unmistakable. He called Asiwaju his "friend" and "brother" after collecting money from him in 1996 to feed. When the money stopped flowing from Asiwaju to him, he started to smother and bother his brother from another mother. He said he fled Nigeria because of Abacha, only to flee England to Kano to eat from the same Abachas when Tinubu's money stopped flowing to him. Ile-Ife, where he grew up, is abuzz over how Dele Momodu, who once called Governor Ademola Adeleke his "friend" and "brother" and was dancing different salve moves with Adeleke, is now supporting Adeleke's opponent in the Osun gubernatorial election. Who would have believed the dance parents would now be at loggerheads? All because of Dele's uncontrollable appetite for food. No wonder Gen Z calls him DFFO, Dele For Food Only. Google it! He is indeed a shameless GLUTTON. No wonder he claimed his restraint business in Ghana collapsed. He must have eaten all the food meant for his patrons! From Adekeke, he moved to Nyesom Wike and was always around the dining table at the Rivers State Government House, overeating, according to Wike's testimony. Then all of a sudden, he posted to Atiku, after Wike's money dried up, and started insulting the Wike he was once consulting and consorting with. Atiku would be well-advised to be very afraid of Dele, especially as Peter Obi and Amaechi are eager to spend as well. Who knows? Tomorrow, Dele may not delay in relaying insults on Atiku once he sees a bigger payload from either of those guys. What else can one expect from a bread hawker, political prostitute and GLUTTON of the ages? (FFK)

You claimed you were Chief MKO Abiola's disciple and because of that, you ran away from General Abacha, and became a refugee in London, which, according to you, left you broke. Out of kindness, Asiwaju gave you £500 in 1996 to buy food. Today, you are fighting that same man! How can you fight someone who fed you because you have seen bigger food! Is food so important to you? Then, as soon as the same Abacha, whom you claimed wanted to kill you, died, you were in Kano, hyping his family and splashing their photo all over your Ovation Magazine after getting paid a handsome fee! Chief Abiola, your so-called mentor, must have rolled in his grave! How did you expect his family to feel? What a betrayal! Who does that? Is that the extent to which you like food, that you would eat it out of the hands of those who were directly responsible for the death of a man you claimed did more for you than any other person has ever done? The same MKO Abiola that you said sponsored your wedding. Your boss, Waziri Atiku Abubakar, knows that even on pain of death, I can NEVER betray him. Go and watch my various interviews. No matter how much I am baited to attack him, I have never and will never do so. Do you have such honour? You, that if Boko Haram gives you a little money now, you will feature them on Ovation and spin their terrorism as a freedom-fighting! Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

Dele Momodu, You Are Too Immature For Politics. Please Focus On Hyping Fading #BBNaija Contestants! Dear Dele Momodu, I have NEVER reached out to you privately for reconciliation. NEVER. If you have evidence about that, please publicise it now. I must remind you that, if I am nothing, I am at least a meticulous recordkeeper. I know what you and I have discussed privately, and it serves no one's interests to expose our discussions publicly. But if you choose to go that route, note that I do not talk without receipts. The fact is that, except my parents have been insulted, or my wife or children's lives have been threatened, which for me is unforgivable, I do not harbour malice, unlike you. The last time you and I had an exchange, I did not reach out to you privately to arrange a settlement or ask for publicity, as you claimed. Rather, because of your weight and the fact that you had previously told me you do not spend more than four days in any physical location and are always travelling, despite the negative things you had written and said about me, I called you to warn you to always travel with aspirin or any other blood thinner to avoid sudden death syndrome, which can result from Deep Vein Thrombosis, caused by frequent air flights. God forbid, it will NEVER happen to you! You will recall that the reason I gave you that brotherly counsel is because DVT had led to the sudden death of a dear friend and brother of mine who almost became the Inspector General of Police. You are overweight, and are a heavy and constant eater. I know that for someone of your size to travel once every four days without aspirin as a blood thinner and anti-platelet agent is a big risk. That you would twist my kind and brotherly gesture out of concern for your health as having "reached out to me, privately, either begging for publicity or apologising for attacking me publicly" is sad. But such is life. Who are you that I should beg you publicly? On all social media platforms, I command a far greater following than you and your dead magazine, Ovation. For goodness' sake, I was listed among the most talked-about people in Africa by Google. You were not even mentioned! Ovation did not feature. I was voted the most influential influencer in Africa by Business Insider, the world's top business magazine. You were not even acknowledged. It is me you need, not the other way around. It pains me to have to say this, as it is not my nature to boast. But you can't put out such and expect me not to respond. Dele Momodu, you are, sadly, too sensitive for politics. You should have focused on entertainment. You have poor political feelers, and do not know when people are trying to be easy on you because of past friendships. How, for example, do you expect to insult and attack the President and desire that those who support him will be quiet? You called the President an economic failure and accused him of being like General Sani Abacha, a murderer and looter, and you say that is not an insult? And when we speak in measured tones, because you know our capacity and should understand that we were just being easy on you because of the soft spot we have for you, you start getting upset and let your emotions control you. No. Stay in your lane. Focus on your game as Nigeria's pioneer hype-man. Entertainment is very different from politics. What value do you bring to the Atiku camp or any other political group? I was nominated as an Ambassador by President Tinubu and my State Governor, and the three Senators from my state, as well as the Federal cabinet minister from Delta, all united and publicly associated with me and supported me. The Chairman of the ruling party from my state was with me throughout the process of my confirmation. In your home state of Edo, who can you count on? Dele, you should focus on hyping fading Big Brother contestants and leave politics to those with a thick enough skin to take barbs and give back in good measure.

THE PIMP CALLED DELE MOMODU HAS BLOWN ANOTHER GASKET: Dele Momodu has got his knickers in a twist yet again. Poor soul. He is clearly tormented. There is nothing worse than watching a man that comes from a lineage of touts and pimps blowing his gasket. He calls me a thug, speaks about my father and family and claims that I wanted to work with Atiku even though I left PDP in 2021. Say what you want about me DELE but it really doesn't matter. My father never knew you even though you claimed he did and no-one ever knew your father. That is how inconsequential you and yours are to Nigeria's history. No matter what you say about me I was born into the corridirs of power, I have been in power and I have remained relevant and active in the power configuration of our country for over 30 years which is more than I can say for you. So it stops there. All I know about you is that you were once a journalist, you followed Chief MKO Abiola around like a court jester and collected crumbs from him for much of your life, you became a hustler and a photographer after he was incarcerated and that you ran for President a number of years back and got only one vote which came from your wife. I will not bother to go into your family history because there is nothing in it to talk about which is why you have such a terrible inferiority complex and a chip on your shoulder. Yet all that is irrelevant. The only thing that is important is that the man you are accusing of being a dictator and an Abacha is presently in Windsor now having dinner with the King whilst you are still in Nigeria kissing Atiku's posterior. I am sure if your defunct Ovation magazine had been invited to cover the event you would have been happier and less bitter and frustrated. Outside of that whether you like it or not President Tinubu WILL return to office and be re-elected in 2027. Nothing you day or do about me or him can change that and this is the source of your pain. Insult me as much as you like: it is like duck off a waters back to me. The only thing that matters is Nigeria and that creatures like you and those you represent do not ever get near power. You called me a pig yet look at yourself in the mirror and tell me who looks more like a pig between you and I. Your profound ugliness, fat stomach and lack of good breeding is your greatest torment. Let us hope it does not bring you to an unexpected end. You were nothing, you are nothing and you will never be anything but Atiku's side kick. I urge you to calm down and live with this unsavoury fact. I pray it doesn't cause you to have a heart attack and drop dead. Outside of this I do not have your time. I have been called to serve my country once again and that is where my focus lies. All the best. (FFK)

The timing of the Maiduguru Bombings And Synchronicity Of Opposition Voices Calling For A Cancellation of President Tinubu's UK State Visit Is Suspicious! Since the return to civil rule in 1999, terror attacks have always increased in intensity as elections draw closer. This is because they are actually political rather than religious. Ask yourself this question: Which true Muslim will attack other Muslims without provocation during the holy month of Ramadan? Some political actors have seen that the single greatest diplomatic feat that Nigeria has ever achieved in thirty-seven years was about to happen—the state visit by President Bola Tinubu to the United Kingdom on the invitation of His Royal Majesty, King Charles III. This singular honour is worthy of particular mention, given that in the last ten years, the United Kingdom has had approximately ten inbound state visits, with one held roughly every year. Brimming with envy over the economic fest President Bola Tinubu has achieved in Nigeria, with twelve cycles of GDP growth and trade surpluses, culminating in Nigeria being the sixth-largest contributor to global GDP growth in 2025, a fact celebrated by Elon Musk, the world's richest man, given their past comments and actions, it is not beyond President Tinubu's opponents to take extraordinary steps. Economically, these individuals cannot fault President Tinubu. They were all in Nigeria on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, when the Managing Director of Operations of the World Bank, Anna Bjerde, said, "Nigeria is a frequent example in my discussions with people around the world, presidents around the world, policymakers around the world, investors around the world, because I think in these two years, the results that have been achieved are really commendable." The above is a direct quote. When you consider someone like Peter Obi, who last year and the year before vociferously called on Nigeria to copy Argentina's reforms, and then deleted all his social media posts where he made such calls, after the Argentine economy collapsed (check his social media timelines. He, out of a guilty conscience, has deleted those posts), you begin to understand the extent of the economic cluelessness of the opposition. The reason why the British Monarch invited our President for a State Visit is because of the steady social and economic progress that has been achieved in Nigeria under President Tinubu, who has added $67 billion to Nigeria's GDP, moving us from a ₦269.29 trillion economy on May 29, 2023, when he became President, to ₦372.8 trillion today. This is even as the total market capitalisation of the Nigerian Exchange, which stood at ₦27.915 trillion on December 30, 2022, hit ₦122 trillion in January 2026, which we thought was unprecedented. That is almost five times what it was before President Tinubu was elected. But what we thought was unprecedented has now been precedented, with the All Share Index hitting the 200,000-point mark on Monday, March 16, 2026. Faced with such undeniable economic progress, which saw the World Bank upwardly revise its economic projection for Nigeria to 4.4% in 2026, President Tinubu's opponents are in crisis. And when you situate the sudden return of bombings in Maiduguri, after that ugly trend had been stemmed, and particularly the fact that it took place on Monday, March 16, 2026, two days before the start of the President's State Visit to the United Kingdom, alarm bells begin to go up. This is more so when you consider the speed at which the President's opponents rushed to the social space and the media with attacks on the President, rather than the terrorists, who perpetrated the act. Then, calling on him to cancel his State Visit appears to be amiss. It was rather like they were waiting, even prepared for this. Within hours of the explosions, they released statements and had their mouthpieces on morning TV talk shows, repeating the keywords: "Cancel the State Visit."

STILL ON DELE MOMODU I saw Dele Momodu's response to my article on him & was amused. I tried to be polite & restrained in that write up & I didn’t realise that it would hurt him so deeply. Yet for that I offer no apology. I said he sounded tired & worne in his interview with Seun Okinbaloye but from his response today it is clear that he is now completely unhinged. He has blown his gasket & his reaction is rooted more in emotion than it is in logic. Frankly I feel sorry for him because it is clear that he is fighting a lost cause, he is badly diminished & he is now a shadow of his former self. For Bobby Dee the glory days are certainly over & I suspect that by 2027 when Tinubu emerges victorious he will crawl back into the hole that he originally came from. Perhaps at that time he will go back to taking pictures of former Governor Nyesom Wike, the Adeleke's & other prominent figures for a living & shining their shoes. Playing clips of things that I said about President Tinubu 11 years ago when I was in the then opposition & when I led the media section of President Jonathan's presidential campaign organisation will not help him to get rid of the stench of faeces that he has immersed himself in today & neither does it derogate from the fact that he was speaking rubbish when he said Tinubu is a dictator. Unlike others I will never deny what I have said in the past about Tinubu or anyone else but at least I had the decency & courage to admit that I was wrong & ever since I left the then opposition and joined the APC in 2021 I have not looked back. Not only did I fight for Tinubu in 2023 during the presidential campaign but I have remained loyal & committed to him & his cause since then and I have no apology for that either. Unlike Dele I did not benefit from him for close to 40 years, eat from his plate, collect handouts from him, stay in his house, claim to be his brother and yet refuse to support him in achieving his dream of becoming President. Bobby Dee's nose is so far up the posterior of those he is now slaving for that he forgot to mention the fact that every single one of them, at some point or the other in their sorry lives & career, have not only changed political parties several times over but have also opposed Tinubu bitterly & even more vehemently than I ever did only to go back & later re-align with him. I do not begrudge them or blame them for that because that is the nature of politics all over the world. There are no permanent friends or enemies but only permanent interests and in my view it is in the interest of Nigeria that Tinubu continues the reforms that he started in 2023 after he was elected President. It is also my view that Nigeria must never fall into the hands of the conglomeration of court jesters, sorry clowns & motely crew of insufferable jokers that Dele is now speaking, slaving & fronting for. I will still be gentle with my old friend because I have a soft spot for him but if he ever crosses the line with me again I will stop being so restrained. He does not have the stomach for a real fight because he is vain and thin-skinned. He also has an over- inflated opinion of himself and a huge ego. These are weaknesses in this game and not strengths and as we get closer to the presidential campaign he will learn this the hard way. Meanwhile he should stay in his lane otherwise I will give him plenty to write about. For him to compare Tinubu to Abacha was wrong and if he was anything like the dictator that Dele claims he is both Dele and those he speaks for today would either be dead or in jail. He should count himself lucky that our President is a democrat and not a monster. Dele's lies, duplicity & shameless perfidy have finally been exposed & are as obvious & glaring as his very large stomach. I advise him to do some press ups & go jogging because unlike before I will no longer remain silent as he & his friends throw mud at our President. Game on!

Dele Momodu Worked With Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Today, He Badmouths Him. Dele Momodu Worked For Wike. Today, He Attacks Him. Dele Momodu Worked With Governor Adeleke. Today, He Has Abandoned Him. Meanwhile, There Is Nobody I Have Worked With Officially That I Do Not Relate Well With. From President Jonathan, Who Publicly Celebrated Me For My Loyalty, To Waziri Atiku Abubakar, Who I Still Speak To. Can Dele Momodu Say The Same? Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

I was honored to have broken fast and had Iftar at the beautiful home of my friend and brother, His Excellency Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, the Honorable Minister of Foreign Affairs, last night. We were joined by our brother and my kinsman, Honorable Wole Oke, the Chairman of the House Commitee on Foreign Affairs, who is one of the most senior and longest serving legislators in our country and a powerful and dynamic force in the politics of Osun state. We had a wonderful time and spoke till the early hours of the morning. May God continue to guide, lead and bless these two wonderful brothers for the great role they are playing in the affairs of our great nation. 🙏❤️ @YusufTuggar

For my brother Bobby Dee to compare President Tinubu to General Sani Abacha and claim that he is a dictator suggests that he is suffering from a degenerating and worrisome level of cognitive dissonance. I love Dele and God knows I have immense respect for him but he sounded drained, tired and broken and spoke little sense yesterday in his interview with Seun Okinbaloye of Channels TV. May I humbly suggest to him to try and take a break from politics and political commentary for a while, get his breath back and attempt to overhaul his intellectual engine? Not only was he uncharitable and disrespectful to the President, the Vice President, the Ministers, the Senators and the newly-appointed Ambassadors, many of whom have far more experience than him in governance and Government, on that programme but he also insulted the collective intelligence of the Nigerian people. He and his associates in the ADC should focus more on trying to build up their depleted ranks and form a strong opposition that we can look forward to engaging in the field of battle for the 2027 election rather than continously obsesse and talk about what our President and our party is doing. The ADC cannot even be described as a sinking ship but rather as a badly patched up inflatable plastic life boat that has not even managed to find its bearing or leave the harbour. It has no engine, no sails, no oars, no captain, no crew, no navigational equipment, no muscle, no firepower, no war chest, no destination and worse of all it is made of rubber and not steel. How can such an ill-prepared contraption even float let alone do battle? It cannot possibly survive the rough seas and harsh winds of Nigerian politics because it lacks gravitas, focus, character, intelligence, discipline and strength. It needs to be built up, better schooled, better trained, better equipped, better educated and better prepared before it can enter the field and before we can even begin to regard it as an opposition party. Right now it can only be described as a haven and pitiful gathering of vacuous, shallow, intellectual frauds and political renegades who lack foresight and who have no direction. The fact that they have failed to take off is not Tinubu's fault, it is theirs. The fact that political leaders & the Nigerian people are flocking to APC in droves is not only because our President and Vice President are doing well but also because they view the ADC as nothing but a collection of disingenious, desperate and recycled political losers, who are addicted to power, who offer no credible alternative to governance and who, like the three blind mice, are running around in circles, chasing each other's long, mangy & wrinkled tails with no where to go. Watching my brother Dele trying to speak for them is pitiful & is even more disconcerting than his assertion that Tinubu will regret his decisions & will be deserted by everyone around him. The Bible says "who is he that sayeth a thing & it cometh to pass when the Lord God of Hosts has commanded it not?" Dele should listen to the Holy Spirit instead of to the pagan murmurings, strange whispers, demonic divinations & conjuring projections of the Prophets of Baal & the Witch of Endor. To be sure Tinubu started well, he is doing well & he will, by the grace of God, end well with no regrets in 2031. Anything short of that is the counsel of the ungodly & the manifestation & delusions of a diseased & demonised mind. I appeal to my brother Dele: leave the ranks of the forces of darkness and join us. You are far too good for the company you are keep. Your presence in the ranks of the ADC is like that of a gentle, beautiful, well bred, well fed and well manicured flamingo trapped in a sea of ugly, cruel, loud, angry, starving, cackling & relentless crows & vultures. It does not befit you. (FFK) @DeleMomodu @seunokin @channelstv @CTVpolitics @OfficialAPCNg @ADCNig @KashimSM @officialSKSM

If Waziri Atiku Abubakar listens to Dele Momodu and runs with Obi, he may lose even in Adamawa! Waziri Atiku Abubakar is formidable, and I would never criticise him based on the immense respect I have for him, but watching Dele Momodu's interview on Channel Television's Sunday Politics yesterday, where he boasted that an Atiku-Obi ticket would defeat President Bola Tinubu, just goes to show how gullible Mr Momodu is. I do not know if Mr Momodu has ever lived in Northern Nigeria. I have. Northern Nigeria places value on politics. Yes! But there is one thing they place value on above politics, and that is religion. To be specific, Islam. Islam in the geographical space now known as Northern Nigeria is exactly a thousand years old in 2026. And that faith has permeated every pore of Northern Nigeria, including its culture, history, and politics. And to think that a joint ticket with a man like Peter Obi, who was caught on a leaked audio vowing to unleash religious war on the Muslim Ummah, is going to unseat a strong incumbent just confirms that Dele Momodu should have stuck to glamour journalism rather than make a pivot to politics. On what grounds does Mr Momodu think that the average core Northern Muslim would vote for a man who, in his most candid moments, revealed the almost genocidal plans he has for the faith that has guided them for a millennium? And rather than help himself after that Saturday, April 1, 2023, Yes Daddy audio leak that made a very nasty April Fool's joke at Mr Obi's expense, Peter Obi has taken even more dramatic action to alienate the Muslim Ummah in the North by choosing positions that threaten their social structure. For example, Nnamdi Kanu, the convicted leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra movement, has repeatedly said some of the most horrific things about Northerners, Hausas, Fulanis, and Islam. Beyond uttering the vitriol that he aimed against the North, he has repeatedly called for killings against Northern Muslims serving in the nation's military and paramilitary services, as well as encouraged acts of violence against civilians. When these attacks led to the killings of Harira Jubril, the pregnant Arewa woman from Adamawa, and her four underage daughters, including Fatima, 9; Khadijah, 7; Hadiza, 5; and Zaituna, 2, who were killed in broad daylight at Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mutanen Arewa saw how Peter Obi behaved. A man who IMMEDIATELY called out Northern Muslims over the Thursday, May 12, 2022, stoning/burning death of Deborah Samuels for blasphemy in Sokoto State, kept quiet when suspected IPOB/ESN elements killed Harira in his home state. Please fact-check me: Peter Obi refused to even acknowledge that the incident ever occurred until I publicly and consistently called him out for his hypocrisy. And then he released a tepid, feckless statement, blaming nobody. The exact opposite of the statement he rehearsed after the Deborah Samuel incident. Till today, nobody has been arrested or prosecuted over the murder of Harira and her children. And after such an injustice to the family of Harira Jubril, Peter Obi, on Sunday, July 6, 2025, while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said Nnamdi Kanu's trial for terrorism 'makes no sense.' Does Dele Momodu think that the people of Adamawa and indeed all Mutanen Arewa have such a short memory? I remind Dele Momodu that he himself called Aisha Yesufu "rambunctious" when she claimed that Peter Obi was the best of the lot in the African Democratic Congress. Dele Momodu then went on to list those in the ADC who, in his view, are better than Peter Obi, including Waziri Atiku Abubakar, Nasir el-Rufai and Rotimi Amaechi, and said that mentioning Peter Obi as the best in the ADC is an insult. In case Mr Momodu has forgotten his words, he can read them here, before 'insulting' us with his new take on Obi.

@BatifiedNuMedia @pointblanknews @jacksonpbn @elrufai @AIT_Online Amin ya rabi!

@realFFK @pointblanknews @jacksonpbn @elrufai @AIT_Online This is a very serious matter indeed. The man is insane. A very dangerous man. Thank God he never became President.

The publisher of Pointblank News @pointblanknews, Jackson Ude @jacksonpbn, posted a note on his X handle which I read with interest. I can confirm all he wrote about Nasir El Rufai's @elrufai plans for the late Raymond Dokpesi's AIT @AIT_Online television station when he was Minister of FCT. Nasir did not just attempt to close down AIT & seize the land on which it was built but he also illegally confiscated large swathes of surrounding land which AIT had paid for & had valid certificates of occupancy & he knocked down some of their buildings without due process & against court orders. There were other aspects of the matter which Ude failed to mention either because he is keeping his gun powder dry like the seasoned fighter that he is or because he does not know. Worse amongst them is the fact that, after Nasir was directed to desist from harrassing Dokpesi & AIT, he resorted to planning to burn the whole place down! Unfortunately for him & fortunately for AIT the plan leaked to a number of OBJ insiders & was opposed by Gen. Abdullahi Mohammed, OBJ's Chief of Staff, Remi Oyo, OBJ's Press Secretary, Nuhu Ribadu @NuhuRibadu the then Chairman of EFCC, Akin Osuntokun, the then Political Advisor to OBJ, Uba Sani @ubasanius, the then Senior Special Assistant to OBJ on Public Affairs, my goodself, the then Minister of Culture & Tourism & a number of others because it was a cruel criminal act & because people's lives would have been endangered Had it not been that we intervened, ensured the plan was aborted & threatened to report the entire matter to OBJ Nasir would have gone ahead, AIT would have been burnt to the ground & the cause of the fire would have been attributed to an electrical fault. During OBJ's time we did not lock up, supress or kill journalists but rather responded to our critics in the media forcefully & vigorously. El Rufai wanted to change all that & those of us that spoke for OBJ opposed his draconian agenda. The late Sam Nda Isaiah, the founder & publisher of Leadership Newspaper @LeadershipNGA, who was a brother to me, was probably the most virulent critic of OBJ & every monday we would look out for his back page column which was always scathing & hostile to our Government. Actually the truth is that he more than any other gave us nightmares. Rather than lock him up, plan to kill him or burn down his newspaper house we engaged him in healthy & oftentimes volatile debate. If El Rufai had had his way we would not have left it at that. It is the recollection of his evil intentions for AIT when he was Minister & his inability to stomach criticism from others that gave me cause for concern when he falsely alleged that the NSA has imported chemical weapons & lethal poisons into the country for "unknown purposes" & when he said he tapped the latter's telephone. My fear, & I reiterated it in my essay titled 'More Questions For Nasir El Rufai', is that he & his associates may be the ones that have actually smuggled those chemical weapons & poisonous substances into our country & that they are planning a deadly false flag attack in which many will be killed which they will then blame on the FG. I may be wrong but this must be looked into & we must not take any chances. A man that can conspire to burn down the nation's top television station, as AIT was at the time, simply because it opposed the Government he served & because he coveted the land that it was built on is capable of anything. That is the level of El Rufai's depravity & given the grave and serious confessions & comments he made in his interview with Charles Aniagolu @charlesaniagolu on Arise Television @ARISEtv we need to take this very seriously. (FFK)

@Alakatunde @pointblanknews @jacksonpbn @elrufai @AIT_Online True.

@realFFK @pointblanknews @jacksonpbn @elrufai @AIT_Online This is deeply concerning and, if accurate, gives credence to fears about the abuse of power and intolerance for criticism. No public office should allow anyone to threaten lives or destroy media houses. Accountability and independent scrutiny are essential.

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True sovereignty is not about the power you possess but about the absolute control you have over that power. Restraint, discipline, compassion and the inclination to be kind and merciful to others is the measure and mark of a truly powerful man and a real leader. Such a man has not only mastered himself but he has also caged his emotions and cannot be easily shaken or moved. Weak leaders are the opposite: they are governed and ruled by their emotions, ambitions and fears, they are irrational, unpredictable and unstable in all their ways, they lack compassion, they are incapable of cultivatiing any form of empathy for those that are suffering and they are seized and possessed with an arbitrary and tyrannical disposition and a cruel inclination to deny, deprive, destroy and oppress their subjects. To the weak leader cruelty, wickedness and subjugation is the measure of leadership but to the strong leader mercy, compassion, empathy, wisdom, restraint, the ability to forgive, the manifestation of love and the administration of fairness and justice is the mark of leadership. The weak leader mocks the circumstances, crushes the spirit and shatters the dreams of the poor, the vulnerable, the helpless and the defenceless. The strong leader protects, defends, supports, inspires, encourages, stands by them and gives them hope. As leaders, whether of just our homes and households or anywhere else, we must NEVER forget these lessons: the more power you have, the more restraint you must wield it with. The greater you are, the more kindness and love you must display. This is wisdom. (FFK)

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

It was an honor for Lady C and I to have been invited to break fast with Distinguished Senator Bashir Lado @SenBasheerlado_, the Special Advisor to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Senate, and his beautuful wife Rukayat in their resplendent Abuja home on Monday evening. Also in attendance were General Chris Musa, the Honorable Minister of Defence of Nigeria, Ambassador Ayo Oke, Nigeria's Ambassador-Designate to France, Ambassador Carlos Garcete, the Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria and his wife Carla and Ambassador Richard Montgomery, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria and his wife Nahid. We had an eventful evening and a wonderful time. Ramadan Kareem. 🙏❤️

It was an honor for Lady C and I to have been invited to break fast with Distinguished Senator Bashir Lado @SenBasheerlado, the Special Advisor to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Senate, and his beautuful wife Madame Rukayat in their resplendent Abuja home on Monday evening. We were blessed with the company of His Excellency General Chris Musa, the Honorable Minister of Defence of Nigeria, His Excellency Ambassador Ayo Oke, Nigeria's Ambassador to France, His Excellency, Ambassador Carlos Garcete, the Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria and his wife Madame Carla Seminario and His Excellency Ambassador Richard Montgomery, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria and his wife Madame Nahid Bilgrami. We had an eventful evening and a wonderful time. Ramadan Kareem. 🙏❤️