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Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by chiswaggs: 10:41am On Feb 04, 2013
It seems the prayers of helpless Nigerians have begun to knock on heaven's gate and gain God's attention. They've begun to eat themselves raw in public. Someone stood on a pulpit and said and I paraphrase 'Nigeria, evil men shall not rule you again'. That was a man most Nairalanders don't really like sha but today it seems that prayer is coming to pass. As see this as the dawning of a new day. A new era. Enough is enough. God bless Nigeria.
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by nicestguy1: 10:49am On Feb 04, 2013
seanet01: Jonathan Fired Nigerian made SAM missiles at OBJ.
OBJ retaliated with Russian made ISKANDER missiles.
Jonathan dropped dead.

grin....9ce 1 wink
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by chiswaggs: 10:51am On Feb 04, 2013
Donmams: We will all know the truth in 2015. Nigerians unfortunately have no choice but to vote for Buhari who will investigate all these fools and send them to jail for 100 years.
have no choice? You and I know Buhari CANNOT rule this nation again. Never. Its time we said goodbye to all this old hands that have eaten from the same pot. We need a breath of fresh air. And mind you, not Jonathan's type.
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by Gbawe: 11:08am On Feb 04, 2013
take dat: You guys should stop portraying GEJ like a president held hostage. He rode to power on a transformation mantra, if he feels OBJ and his people were corrupt he should bring them to book. All these silly excuses means nothing!

This is another factor working massively against GEJ. He came in as the "fresh air" to usher out the rancid odour left by our past leaders. Yet he is behaving exactly as they have with how he is persevering with mindless profligacy, bloated governance, monumental corruption, gradualism and a very glaring inability/unwillingness to put some deleterious practices, now ultra-rare worldwide, to bed , once and for all, for the sake of Nigeria's progress.

OBJ, in my opinion, was a failure and GEJ is failing too. Their camps should tear into each other. They are all birds of the same feather.
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by gogodaye(m): 11:31am On Feb 04, 2013
It is heartening to hear and learn from these two gentlemen who have sold their lives and souls for power.Fani-Kayode once acted like his friend Abati when he was elevated and granted the elitist status of a citizen of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria fron being a mere citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. What goes around our people say comes around. I pray Abati pays heed to the innuendo from his friend. Fani-Kayode.......Being Yesterdays' men does not mean they cannot be Tommorrows' men some later.......Because if that dream ever come to pass......wetin Bamaiyi see under OBJ go be child's play......to wetin the boys of tommorrow go show am...
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by seanet01: 11:39am On Feb 04, 2013
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Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by Adurangba(f): 12:08pm On Feb 04, 2013
Gbawe:

This is another factor working massively against GEJ. He came in as the "fresh air" to usher out the rancid odour left by our past leaders. Yet he is behaving exactly as they have with how he is persevering with mindless profligacy, bloated governance, monumental corruption, gradualism and a very glaring inability/unwillingness to put some deleterious practices, now ultra-rare worldwide, to bed , once and for all, for the sake of Nigeria's progress.

OBJ, in my opinion, was a failure and GEJ is failing too. Their camps should tear into each other. They are all birds of the same feather.

Including all those ex PDP members now parading themselves as progressives in ACN.
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by CohenJane: 12:28pm On Feb 04, 2013
Is this how we want to start the year?

Is this we want to move the country forward? Accusations and counter accusations instead of facing the monster(s) facing us?
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by k2kay(m): 10:54pm On Feb 04, 2013
Delusions of grandeur
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by Eziachi: 11:01pm On Feb 04, 2013
confusion247: In Nigeria today things you see will make you be rest assured that evil will remain with us for a long time. Why is Kayode not asking IBB to come and account for 12 billion dollars. Why is Kayode not asking OBJ to come and account for 16 billion dollars he spent for us to have darkness. Today in Nigeria what we have is politics of tribe and ethnicity.
So because he didn't call every Nigerian rogue to come and account, therefore the one he called to account, should be brush off under the carpet? I don't know how some of you reason.
Because the robbers that rob the bank down the road had not yet been caught, let set the one that stole your car we had caught free until the time the robbers are caught?
This is Nigeria you lot expect to work? grin grin grin Always busy comparing criminals and they are all busy getting away with it. Isn't Jonathan supposed to be the fresh air against the usual foul odour you are use to but you are now trying to tell us whose foul odour is worse instead of the promised fresh air?
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by filebe777: 3:54am On Oct 06, 2013
It is because Reuben want to have intimate relationship with Biaca. And Reuben had been suspected of having his way.
The igbo tribes are generally mad with yorubas because they claim 'the OSU' tradition should be respected I.e Ojukwu the he-goat faced blood-brother should be the one doing Bianca on intimate relationship level.
The gist goes on and on, follow me on this page for more...
http://www.informationng.com/2013/09/shocking-bianca-got-pregnant-twice-while-dating-fani-kayode-kemi-olunloyo.html/comment-page-1
SHOCKING: Bianca Got Pregnant Twice While Dating Fani-Kayode – Kemi Olunloyo
Ms Kemi Olunloyo, the controversial daughter of a former Governor of Oyo State, has declared her resolve to expose dirty secrets of the alleged relationship between Femi Fani-Kayode and Bianca Ojukwu because Bianca is saying that she never had any intimate relationship of any kind with him.


pheesayor: THE DELUSIONS OF TODAY'S
MEN


[img]http://thewillnigeria.com/thumbnail.php?file=fani_kayode__405556429.jpg&size=article_medium[/img]

FEMI FANI-KAYODE

I read Dr. Reuben Abati's article titled 'The Hypocrisy Of Yesterday's Men'' (3rd Feb.2013) which was published in virtually every newspaper in the country with amusement. He sought to ridicule and demean those of us that served President Olusegun Obasanjo's government and that are not very impressed with the performance of his boss. The fact that we asked President Goodluck Jonathan to account for the 67 billion USD that he squandered from our foreign reserves has clearly upset him. We dared to ask about the money and so we were singled out and targetted for a tongue-lashing and a long lecture from the Presidency. Yet we remain undeterred.

This is how weak governments that have nothing to offer and something to hide always behave. They come after their perceived enemies with full force and they are petty and oversensitive. This is all the more so when they lack experienced hands and when they do not have anyone with deep insight or wisdom about the art of governance or politics within their ranks. In his response instead of answering our questions, addressing the issues or making any pertinent and sensible points about the numerous allegations against his principal, Abati chose to go on a delusional and self-serving joy ride. He simply refused to address any of our numerous concerns but instead indulged vainly in what can only be described as an utterly vulgar and distasteful form of intellectual, spiritual and psychological masturbation by telling us that he and his master were ''today's men'' who needed no lessons from the ''men of yesterday''.

The essay was nothing but the usual smear campaign and a crude attempt to intimidate which has been the hallmark of this Government whenever they are faced with even the mildest form of criticism. I will not dignify most of the insulting and childish submissions that Abati indulged in with a response other than to say that he told a shameless and pernicious lie when he wrote that as Minister of Aviation I ''shut down Port Harcourt Airport for two years'' and ''allowed grass to grow all over it''. This is false. It is a classic case of disinformation coming from a man that is obviously suffering from a very low self-esteem. It is clear that Abati, who is a journalist, has forgotten the most important tenet of his profession which is that ''facts are sacred and opinion is cheap''. Ordinarily one would have ignored his bitter rant but it is important that I set the record straight for the sake of posterity. The facts are as follows.

Port Harcourt International Airport was closed on Dec.10 2005 after the Sossolisso Air crash in which 100 people were killed. The crash affected the runway of the airport very badly and consequently the then Minister of Aviation, Professor Babalola Borishade closed it. I was redeployed from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the Ministry of Aviation in November 2006. This was 11 months after the Sossolisso crash took place and that Port Harcourt Airport had been closed. It is clear from the foregoing that I was not the one that shut down Port Harcourt Airport. When I took over at Aviation my priority was to carry out all the necessary repairs at Port Harcourt Airport and to open it as quickly as possible. I was saddened to discover that in the previous 11 months before I got there nothing had been done and the contract to repair the runway had not even been awarded. Consequently within a month of my being appointed Minister of Aviation we set to work and awarded the contract to Julius Berger at the cost of 3 billion naira. 50 per cent of the money was paid up front and Julius Berger set to work immediately. The runway was fully completed and the airport in pristine condition before I left office on May 29th 2007 just 6 months after I awarded the contract. However despite this the airport could not be opened before we left because the runway lighting system was still in the process of being installed.

The Yar'adua government went ahead and opened the airport a few months after we left office even though the runway lights had still not been installed. The record shows that from the day that I was appointed Minister of Aviation and the time that our mandate ran out 7 months later my staff at the Ministry and Julius Berger worked night and day on the runway project at Port Harcourt International Airport in order to ensure that we finished it in record time. And this we managed to do. It was my project. I sourced the money for it, I paid for it, I forced the contractor to move fast on it and I finished it. The fact that the Yar'adua administration did not complete the lighting system and open the airport for another few months after we left office, even though the runway was ready, is for them to explain and not for me.

Even though nothing was done at that airport for 11 months before I got to Aviation, once I was appointed we swung into action immediately. I repeat that it was under my watch that work commenced, that it was rebuilt, that it was completed and that it was fully restored and after that the airport was ready to be fully utilised. Given these facts how Abati can peddle the lie that I was the one that not only closed the airport but that I also kept it shut for two years, did nothing there, caused it to remain idle and allowed ''grass to grow all over it'' honestly baffles me. I was Minister of Aviation for only 7 months and not 2 years and within those seven months, from scratch, I did all the work that needed to be done in order to make the airport functional again. I am proud of the fact that we succeeded in meeting our target and completing the job.

Abati also so asserted that I closed down ''other major airports'' whilst I was Minister of Aviation ''for the purposes of renovation''. Again this is not true. Not one of the four major airports in the country were closed down for renovation works or any other reason whilst I was Minister of Aviation. And neither, to the best of my recollection, did I close or suspend the operations of any of the smaller airports except perhaps for safety reasons. As a matter of fact the opposite was the case. I actually installed and completed the sophisticated Safe Tower Project in three of the four major airports in the country, resurrected and funded the Tracon Radar System which is operational in our country today and which gives us full radar coverage in our airspace, upgraded the facilities in many of the old smaller airports and granted permission for the establishment of new airports in places like Gombe.

Quite apart from that we not only stopped the terrible cycle of plane crashes that was prevalent at that time but there was not one aircraft that crashed under my watch and no loss of life from the air under my tenure. I am the only Minister of Aviation in the last 10 years of our country that can boast of that and yet Abati seeks to tarnish my name, stain my record and rubbish my efforts with his lies. All this and far more and Abati accuses me of ''running the aviation sector down to a state of near collapse''. For that I commit him to God's judgement. It is obvious that he is just being malicious and dishonest. I take strong objection to his specious lies, his brazen falsehood and his distortions of fact. The suggestion that I closed Port Harcourt Airport and neglected it for two years, that I closed other airports for renovations and that I ran the aviation sector down to the ground is what I would refer to as a figment of his malicious, overactive and fertile imagination. It is a glaring mendacity, a brutal assault on truth and an affront to my sensiblities. I find it utterly reprehensible and repugnant that a man that is entrusted to speak for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria can indulge in such petty lies.

Let me end this contribution by pointing out the fact that being ''yesterday's men'' does not mean that some of us cannot be ''tomorrows men'' as well. Only God knows what lies ahead for each and everyone of us. So when Abati glibly writes people off as if they will never be in power again it is a sad reflection of his lack of experience and naivety. It is God that determines our tomorrow. It is He that lifts men up, that pulls them down and, sometimes if it be His will, lifts them up again. There are countless examples of that in our history. Finally I have a few questions for President Jonathan and his ''todays men''. When will they take President Obasanjo's advice and finally do something concrete about Boko Haram and our security situation? Does the fact that at least 4000 Nigerians have been killed by these terrorists in the last two years under their watch not bother them?

How can they sleep well at night with all that innocent blood that has flowed and precious lives cut short whilst they were at the helm of affairs of our nation? More innocent souls have been killed in the last 2 years by terrorists than at any time in the history of Nigeria outside the civil war. How does President Jonathan and his ''today's men'' feel about winning such a dubious and dishonorable title? Does he still regard Boko Haram as ''his siblings'' who he ''cannot hurt''? Why has the President refused to visit the good people of the north east despite the fact that dozens of people are still being slaughtered there by Boko Haram every day? Moving to the issue of corruption and the economy when will our President and ''today's men'' answer the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron's question and tell him what they did with the 100 billion USD that they made from oil sales in the last two years?

When will they answer Obi Ezekwsile's question about how they squandered 67 billion USD of our foreign reserves? When will they answer the question that Nasir El Rufai asked sometime back about how they spent over 350 billion naira on security vote in one year alone? When will they answer the many questions that Dr. Pat Utomi and many other distinguished and courageous leaders and ''yesterday's men'' have raised about the trillions of naira that have been supposedly spent on oil subsidy payments in the last two years? When will they implement the findings and recommendations of the Nuhu Ribadu report on the thivery that has gone on in the oil sector? When will they cultivate the guts and find the courage to respond to a call for a public debate to defend their abysmal record? When will these ''today's men'' stop being so reckless with our money?

Why would our ''today's man'' FCT Minister budget 5 billion for the ''rehabilitatioin of prostitues in the Abuja''? Why would he budget 7.5 billion naira for a new ''FCT city gate''? Why would he budget 4 billion naira for a house for the First Lady? Why would the Federal Government of ''todays men'' budget 1 billion naira for food in the Villa? Are these the priorities of ''today's men and women''? And all this when Nigeria is back in foreign debt to the tune of 9 billion USD and is still borrowing, when local debt has hit almost 50 billion USD, when graduate unemployment has hit 80 per cent, when 40 per cent of Nigerians do not have access to good food and ''are hungry'' and when 70 per cent of Nigerians are living below the poverty line? Is this the vision of ''today's men and women''? If so may God deliver Nigeria.


Written By Femi Fani-Kayode

http://www.thewillnigeria.com/opinion/18592.html
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by pheesayor(m): 11:47am On Oct 07, 2013
filebe777: It is because Reuben want to have intimate relationship with Biaca. And Reuben had been suspected of having his way.
The igbo tribes are generally mad with yorubas because they claim 'the OSU' tradition should be respected I.e Ojukwu the he-goat faced blood-brother should be the one doing Bianca on intimate relationship level.
The gist goes on and on, follow me on this page for more...
http://www.informationng.com/2013/09/shocking-bianca-got-pregnant-twice-while-dating-fani-kayode-kemi-olunloyo.html/comment-page-1
SHOCKING: Bianca Got Pregnant Twice While Dating Fani-Kayode – Kemi Olunloyo
Ms Kemi Olunloyo, the controversial daughter of a former Governor of Oyo State, has declared her resolve to expose dirty secrets of the alleged relationship between Femi Fani-Kayode and Bianca Ojukwu because Bianca is saying that she never had any intimate relationship of any kind with him.



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Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by Fernandez01: 7:42am On Nov 23, 2013
Honestly this is the height of hypocrisy . Imagine ffk who has tons of corruption cases to answer for masquerading as an anti-corruption activist .
Ffk calls himself a gentleman when he trades vulgar words with people online , publishes the names of the women he has bedded online etc .
Ffk should please stop advertising his stupidity we are just fed up with his trash
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by Fernandez01: 7:47am On Nov 23, 2013
Ffk articles are just so pathetic , they reek with so much foolishness
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by Fernandez01: 7:50am On Nov 23, 2013
pheesayor:

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Trash
Re: The Delusions Of Today’s Men: Femi Fani-Kayode Replies Reuben Abati by Fernandez01: 7:53am On Nov 23, 2013
filebe777: It is because Reuben want to have intimate relationship with Biaca. And Reuben had been suspected of having his way.
The igbo tribes are generally mad with yorubas because they claim 'the OSU' tradition should be respected I.e Ojukwu the he-goat faced blood-brother should be the one doing Bianca on intimate relationship level.
The gist goes on and on, follow me on this page for more...
http://www.informationng.com/2013/09/shocking-bianca-got-pregnant-twice-while-dating-fani-kayode-kemi-olunloyo.html/comment-page-1
SHOCKING: Bianca Got Pregnant Twice While Dating Fani-Kayode – Kemi Olunloyo
Ms Kemi Olunloyo, the controversial daughter of a former Governor of Oyo State, has declared her resolve to expose dirty secrets of the alleged relationship between Femi Fani-Kayode and Bianca Ojukwu because Bianca is saying that she never had any intimate relationship of any kind with him.




This is absolute trash . My dear stop advertising the ineptitude of your gray matter

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