Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, said that the Department of State Security should arrest
Fani-Kayode, Director of New Media of the Bola Tinubu Campaign, over his
inciting remarks.
Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant on Public Communications to
Atiku, in a statement on Sunday, lauded British Envoy, Ben Llewellyn-Jones for
listing Fani-Kayode and others making inciting comments.
On Sunday, Llewellyn-Jones reportedly condemned the comments
made by Fani-Kayode, who is the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential
campaign council’s director of new media.
The deputy high commissioner also restated the UK visa ban
threat to those undermining democracy in the country, noting that about 10
persons were on the growing watchlist.
Commenting in a statement on Sunday, Shaibu said the
Department of State Services (DSS) ought to invite Fani-Kayode as his rhetoric
could set the country on fire.
Shaibu said Fani-Kayode’s claim that he would make Nigeria
ungovernable if Tinubu is not inaugurated as president on May 29 is
“infuriating and deserving of the attention of the DSS”.
“We acknowledge as timely, the statement of the DSS call on
politicians not to overheat the polity but call on the security agency to
arrest Fani-Kayode for not heeding the counsel of the DSS when he threatened to
make Nigeria ungovernable,” Shuaibu said.
“The DSS rightly invited Fani-Kayode after he made false
claims about Atiku planning a coup back in January and asked him to report
daily. But for some reason, he has continued unhinged to spew hate.
“Recently, he even
justified the attacks and the profiling of the Igbo in the recently concluded
fraudulent governorship election in Lagos State. He has also threatened to make
the country ungovernable if Tinubu is not sworn-in.
“I think it’s a good time to remind the DSS that Femi
Fani-Kayode has returned to his old ways. Now, he is threatening fire and
brimstone over a most contentious election, which Nigerians have refused to
endorse or celebrate one full month after the collective disenfranchisement of
the electorate.
“Fani-Kayode is threatening that he and some other
desperados will make Nigeria ungovernable if Tinubu is not inaugurated on May
29, 2023. It is time to take in Fani-Kayode so he doesn’t inflame any further,
the already combustible national angst.”
Shaibu alleged that the police have continued to give
Fani-Kayode cover and have been used many times to intimidate people as stated
by his staff.
“Yet, Fani-Kayode,
who has not held any political office since 2007 when he was Aviation Minister,
moves with a siren-blaring convoy,” he said.
“He should immediately be stripped of those security aides,
uniformed or otherwise.
Shaibu called on Nigerians not to take Fani-Kayode
seriously.
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