Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has expressed the
belief that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s father might not be a Yoruba man.
Fani-Kayode said Obasanjo’s ‘silence’ over a recent comment
by Igbo businessman Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu that Yoruba people are “political
rascals,” was an indication that the former president’s father was an Igbo man,
not Yoruba.
Iwuanyanwu said Igbo people had invested so much in Nigeria
and were not going to yield to the pressure of people asking them to leave.
Speaking in Awka, Anambra State, on Saturday, Iwuanyanwu
berated Yoruba people.
However, Fani-Kayode said he was disappointed that Obasanjo
was silent over Iwuanyanwu’s anti-Yoruba comments.
Taking to his Twitter handle, Fani-Kayode wrote: “The fact
that our revered leader and one of the fathers of our nation, former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, can sit there and say nothing when Emmanuel Iwanyanwu, who I
have always respected, describes the entire Yoruba race as “rascals” that the
Igbo “will DEAL with” tells me that the rumour that he is NOT a fully-fledged
Yoruba man and that his father was an Igbo may well be true.
“Whatever the case, this is not the OBJ I once knew, loved,
defended and worked so hard for. Something has gone wrong. No one could have
made a statement against ANY tribe in the presence of the old OBJ that we all
knew and respected and got away with it.”
Following the outcome of the presidential election, there
was a face-off between Yorubas and Igbos in Lagos.
The fallout was due to the victory of the Labour Party, LP,
presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in Lagos State.
Against the backdrop of Obi’s victory, Igbos were warned
against voting during the governorship election in Lagos.
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If you think that Obasanjo is not a Yoruba man or doesn't know his father as well, So its high time you that knows would help the former president to find his real father and disclose to us @FFK.
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