A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Femi
Fani-Kayode has reacted to a move by the United States to impose visa ban on
Nigerians who undermined the recently-concluded general elections in the
country.
Recall that the United States Secretary
of State, Antony Blinken, on Monday, revealed that the US government has
imposed visa restrictions on specific individuals for allegedly undermining
democracy during the elections.
Some stakeholders had challenged the US government to
uncover the affected politicians.
Reacting, Fani-Kayode, in a statement on Tuesday, said the
development was nothing to worry about, stressing that only the Nigerian court
can determine if the poll was in any way rigged.
The statement reads in part, “Those that have imposed a visa
ban on some “selected Nigerians” for allegedly “undermining democracy” and
“rigging elections” are perfectly within their rights to do so because it is
their country and they can do as they please.
“We should lose no sleep over that because the Nigerian
people, a great and sovereign people who belong to a great and sovereign
nation, spoke loudly and clearly and made their legitimate choices during the
course of a set of free, fair and credible elections.
“Wherever any of those elections may have been rigged or
democracy undermined can only be properly determined by our election tribunals
and courts after all the facts and evidence have been adduced, examined and
determined and not by any distant and/or partisan foreign government or power.
“It is also my view that foreign policy, which ought to be
based on the principle of equality of nations and conducted on the basis of
reciprocity, requires the Nigerian Federal Government to consider the
possibility of doing the same to nationals of those that have implemented and
announced this measure and issue a visa ban to any foreign citizen or member of
any corporate entity or institution that may have indulged in undermining
democracy or rigging elections in either their own or any other country in the
world over the last 25 years”.
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