Fani-Kayode To Obasanjo: You Lacks Moral, Political Rights To Condemn Restructuring Agitation

A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo as a small minority to condemn a wide agitation for restructuring.

Fani-Kayode who was interviewed in respect of the Yoruba summit on restructuring held in Ibadan, Oyo state capital said this during an interview at a radio station in Osun State monitored by our Correspondent on Friday.

Fani-Kayode said the call of the former president, Obasanjo on mindset restructuring of Nigeria is baseless and personal to him.

According to him, Many of us believed that if that is not done, this country will break up and what will happen is that the cry for establishment of Oduduwa Republic will far more in pronouncement. This can’t be stopped unless we dissolve power from the central, it will erode the thought that dome are slaves while others are kings.

” We are talking about the emancipation of the Yoruba nation, we (Yorubas) have been cheated, humiliated, jailed and insulted by the same people over and over again. Those people killed Awolowo, Abiola and they incarcerated Obasanjo; when he even became the President, they push Sharia law on him, same people established Boko Haram, they turned the Vice President to coordinator when the president was not around because they dont believe in anybody in the country, they believe they own Nigeria.

“We need to have a self autonomy and we must be emancipated as people so that we can be able to achieve our full potential and that is what we are fighting for, doing it constitutionally, lawful, reasonable and rational manner and agitate for restructuring of the federation.

“What we resolved in the communiqué yesterday as Yoruba nation is that we need to have restructuring based on regional line.

“Let us have the control of our destiny, move our people forward to greater height. Nigeria as country we  are greater than many nation in the world.

“Yoruba nation has taken a position on restructuring because we don’t have federation in Nigeria”, he added.

However, Fani-kayode condemned Federal Government on the said war declared on hate speeches.

He alleged that, All Progressives Congress is architect of ‘hate speeches in Nigeria which they conveyed against former president,  Goodluck Jonathan by engaging several spite words against him.

He added, “The blood that is running in the veins of the party’s supporters preaches hatred.

“They wanted to suppress freedom of speech by declaring war on ‘hate speeches. If they want to stop hate speeches they need to lead by example and we all going to start from there”.