S/West youth chide Fani Kayode over Buhari comment

A group, Concerned O’oduwa Progressive Youth Assembly, yesterday took a swipe on a former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, over his alleged call on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to take over government from President Muhammadu Buhari.

The group expressed concern over what it called “growing instance of active promotion of hate, ethnic paranoia, call to insurgency, call to commit pogrom and other negative acts that amount to crimes in any country of the world.”

President-General of the group, Mr Kola Salawu, who addressed a press conference in Lagos, yesterday, called on Fani-Kayode and others allegedly fanning embers of hate and violence in the country to desist.

He specifically frowned at the alleged call for war by the ex-minister, who was the Director of Media of Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Council in 2015, urging him to withdraw the call.

According to him, instigating hate and violence could have political costs which “will do damage to Yoruba interest in the Nigerian political equation.”

He accused the former minister of “leading a campaign of calumny against Buhari with a view to creating division between the president and Yoruba members of the cabinet.”

“Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is now the Acting President of Nigeria, a Femi Fani-Kayode is not needed to lead a war to actualise that,” he said.