I came across this article yesterday evening but could not publish immediatedly for your reading delight till now cos of poor telecommunication system and its titled: FEMI FANI KAYODE-Haunted by A Nupe Ancestry-Fighting A Foggy Yoruba Identity Complex by Dr.N.Tony Nwaezeigwe and I was moved and awed by his deep historical insights and couldn’t help but share it with you all!

This is simply awesome and Waoooooh! Brief Excerpts from the article:

“With a quisling political and subservient pedigree haunted by a jaundiced Nupe ancestry, laced with a foggy Saro-Yoruba identity compex, nothing better should have better been expected from Chief David Oluwafemi adewunmi abdulateef Fani-Kayode, a.k.a. Femi Fani-kayode, than his spineless historical verbosity woven in outright haft-truths and infantile sensationalism. As a professional historian, replying to such musings of a habitual moronic mind would amount to giving Femi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode an unmerited intellectual prominence, which indeed is his hidden motive behind his calculated infamy against the Igbo.
Read full article and share your views!
http://graciousgracegardens./2013/08/24/breaking-news-femi-fani-kayode-is-not-even-yoruba-after-allhaunted-by-a-nupe-ancestry-fighting-a-foggy-yoruba-identity-complex/

Any one that wakes up the lion can never rest fani has finished
Femi Fani Kayode Is Not Even Yorub

(now i will join in this fight)
the article is a must read,but the op was indirectly advertising his site.

Fabrictaed story, another igobtic propaganda.
OBJ's grandfather was igbo,
kwankaso town was a bastardised name originally nwankwo stores.
Bunch of ACHEBE's reminants. story teller

FFK has been exposed.His grandfather was a freed sierra leonan slave who was brought to Nigeria by Bishop Ajayi Crowther.His father only claimed Nupe ancestry when he was confronted by Pa Awolowo for his treachery.

Its high time we stop foreigners like FFK from fanning the embers of disunity in this our country.No wonder he wanted to destroy our Aviation sector.He was probably sending our monies to his peeps in sierra leone.

*following*

I just found out yesterday that OBJ is igbo.

yes,i always imagined why i never saw a sign that lion tore his face,sorry tribal mark,but seriously this man is a nupe,oh my God,yorubas should send him parking!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmn. . .

Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A large number of Oyo people have Nupe/Borgu blood in their veins. In fact, Oyo town has had Borgu rulers before so this is not earth-shaking news.

The important thing is that as of this moment, he is Yoruba. End of story.

Mumu Op and Idiotic igbo... U can ask America to impeach OBAMA for bin dia president and speaking for em.... FANI KAYODE IS A Y0RUBA MAN... And we are proud of hm... Even if hs ancestors happen to be slave frm Jamaica... Any wea u find urself wen slave trade was abolish u're and indigiene of dat place except if you wana go bak to d original land u hail frm... King jaja of opobo was 0nce a slave... Bigoted bastard u cn ask etsu nupe to come and pick Fani kayode nw... FANI KAYODE IS N0W A CELEBRITY EVERY BUSH RAT WANT A PIECE OF HIM

Olamagnifico: Mumu Op and Idiotic igbo... U can ask America to impeach OBAMA for bin dia president and speaking for em.... FANI KAYODE IS A Y0RUBA MAN... And we are proud of hm... Even if hs ancestors happen to be slave frm Jamaica... Any wea u find urself wen slave trade was abolish u're and indigiene of dat place except if you wana go bak to d original land u hail frm... King jaja of opobo was 0nce a slave... Bigoted bastard u cn ask etsu nupe to come and pick Fani kayode nw... FANI KAYODE IS N0W A CELEBRITY EVERY BUSH RAT WANT A PIECE OF HIM

Really! So if a slave with multiple and unclear ancestry can claim lagos, why cant an Igbo with a known ancestry.

The Etsu nupe might not want to claim him because he will be a liar bility. People get associated with success and not failures that your Abdulateef David has turned into.

Operation deport Femi fani-Kay ODE back to freetown.

kunlekunle: Fabrictaed story, another igobtic propaganda.
OBJ's grandfather was igbo,
kwankaso town was a bastardised name originally nwankwo stores.
Bunch of ACHEBE's reminants. story teller

You forgot to add, Namadi is originally Nnamdi. Igbo, I hail una attachee.

Who doesn't this is a lie, we all know the father of Femi Fani-Kayode who was the Deputy Governor of Western Region and a Minister in the 1950s?

kodewrita: Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A large number of Oyo people have Nupe/Borgu blood in their veins. In fact, Oyo town has had Borgu rulers before so this is not earth-shaking news.

The important thing is that as of this moment, he is Yoruba. End of story.

Yes, you're right. Oyo used to be in a place called Katunga in the present-day Niger State before they're led out by Alaafin Atiba in around 1830 for their present location. During their stay in Katunga, they inter-married with the Nupe. Sango, the first Alaafin had a Nupe mother.
I won't be surprised if this writer is a first class graduate and lecturer in the SE like a previous one attacking Fani-Kayode claims.

He is nupe or not, he is Yoruba for speaking our mind. those comparing ffk to Igbo must be Stupid, I mean has he ever said nupe aka tapa who are indigenes of Lagos claim to be 45 percent ? Has any nupe man insulted the Yoruba race ? Igbos claim to be igbos but yet lagosians hahaha joke of the century and yet compare themselves with ffk

alj harem: He is nupe or not, he is Yoruba for speaking our mind. those comparing ffk to Igbo must be Stupid, I mean has he ever said nupe aka tapa who are indigenes of Lagos claim to be 45 percent ? Has any nupe man insulted the Yoruba race ? Igbos claim to be igbos but yet lagosians hahaha joke of the century and yet compare themselves with ffk

ONE NIGERIA

Chief of Kayode Bangdom. Wife bang Ati iku.Daughter bang Baba well well. Dem swear against them.

Ola Johnson: Who doesn't this is a lie, we all know the father of Femi Fani-Kayode who was the Deputy Governor of Western Region and a Minister in the 1950s?

I know his father and grandfather,i don't worry about Femi Fani Kayode who grandfather hail from nupe ,well he said it before that his related to Fulani/Hausa

The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children's children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future. Femi Fani Kayode here is your future
”

Mr "Intimate" has been quiet for some time now. We should just let him ‎​be.

gist4real: Mr "Intimate" has been quiet for some time now. We should just let him ‎​be.

If him drink ota pia pia that one na him own trouble. Why him go de bang any how, until him go bang him own daughter. Cocaine.

I have said it before and I will say it again, all this article here and there would not solve anything! if only half the effort you all make to ridicule femi fani-kayode is channeled at your state governors for not providing the dividends of democracy, then i think the menace of kidnapping, bad roads, poor health care, poor everything would have been an issue of the past in the south-east. And again, what are Ibo men still doing in Kano, Sokoto, Kaduna? BH are just slaughtering them like fowls yet they remain there because they believe the South-east is not worthy to be called HOME! so you all should treat your host communities with respect!

FEMI FANI KAYODE - Haunted By A
Nupe Ancestry- Fighting A Foggy
Yoruba Identity Complex
By
Dr. N. Tony Nwaezeigwe, Senior
Research Fellow Institute of African
Studies, University of Nigeria,
Nsukka.
Nigeria’s nationality question is
neither the creation of the Igbo nor
the Yoruba. It is the consequence
of Hausa-Fulani’s megalomaniac
quest for political power in the
nation. Yet the Hausa-Fulani accept
the fact that both the Igbo and
Yoruba hold the key to their
attainment of this divine-right
objective only if both groups agree
to remain suspicious of the other.
It therefore becomes obvious that
the solution to this national
question can only be attained if
both the Igbo and Yoruba realize
that their mutual understanding
and respect of the other’s
perception of Nigeria’s progress
would save the nation millions in
loss of human and material
resources.
First, both the Igbo and Yoruba,
seen respectively as mentors to
other minority ethnic groups in the
South and Middle Belt should see
their assumed characteristic
rivalry, if at all there is something
like that, as healthy to the overall
development of the Nigerian nation
and, not the vice versa. Second,
both groups should be aware that
this question of Nigeria’s
nationality will always persist so
long as the Hausa-Fulani feel that
without any one of their own being
at the helms of authority in this
country, there will be no peace.
And one fundamental means of
achieving this Arabian power
mentality is to ensure there is
perpetual state of political
belligerency between the Igbo and
Yoruba.
It is on record that both the Igbo
and Yoruba cannot write a
complete history of their respective
roles in the development of the
Nigerian nation without mentioning
the other in one positive sense or
the other. Apart from the fact that
both the Igbo and Yoruba were
equal stake-holders in the nation’s
Independence struggles, their
contacts long pre-dated the arrival
of the British colonial adventurers.
The Yoruba were the first to
establish effective direct contacts
with traditional Igbo society long
before European incursions. They
had penetrated the Igboland before
the Igbo themselves thought of
coming to Yorubaland. The
evidence to this pre-colonial
contact is today found in the
existence in Igboland of a group of
ancient Yoruba-speaking Igbo sub-
group called Olukunmi made up of
Ugbodu, Ukwunzu, Ubulubu and
Idumuogo towns in Aniocha Local
Government Area of Delta State.
Although these people could pass
as normal Igbo in their general
definition of ethnic identity when
outside their communities, but
they still maintain their Yoruba
identity, speaking Yoruba language
as their primary mother-tongue
alongside Igbo and bearing mixed
Igbo-Yoruba names. Most of these
people claim to have migrated from
Owo in the present Ondo State
many centuries ago. Similarly many
Yoruba, mainly of Oshogbo and
Ogbomosho origins, Nupe and
Igala settlers today constitute a
substantial portion of Asaba and
Onitsha indigenes. These people
had settled among the Igbo long
before the coming of the Europeans
accessing their present abode
through the River Niger. Above all,
one cannot deny the positive roles
such Yoruba missionaries as
Bishops Samuel Ajayi Crowther and
James Johnson played in the
evangelization of Igboland during
the nineteenth century.
Thus effective contact between the
Igbo and Yoruba not only began
many centuries before the creation
of modern Nigerian nation, but
was initiated by the Yoruba. Those
who today think that Igbo-Yoruba
contact only began with European
colonialism, or that only the Yoruba
had been on the receiving end of
inter-ethnic migration may be
saying so either out of mere
ignorance of the subject of
Nigerian history, or sheer
mischievous and selfish political
motives. One does not need to go
into the mythical etymology of the
word “Igbo” which in Yoruba means
forest, but which was in fact first
applied by the immigrant Oduduwa
group to the aborigines of the
present Spiritual kingdom of Ife,
ascribing the term to people living
in the forest.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
the Igbo have always viewed the
Yoruba in a healthy competitive
sense and not in the light of a
heinous political and economic
rival, as such Yoruba political torn-
coats of doubtful ancestry as Femi
Abdulateef Fani-Kayode tend to
insinuate. In the same token, the
Yoruba on their part cannot claim
that the Igbo presence in their land
had been that of a habitual Igbo
quest to wrestle their ancestral
land from them. Not even the
ancestral owners of Lagos State of
whom Abdulateef Kayode is not
part of, can willingly cast aspersion
on their Igbo guests, for the latter
have always been their willing
partners in the progress of their
communities.
The Igbo have never been the
problem of native Lagosians but
the artificial Lagosians, who come
to appropriate their political
heritage in the name of Oduduwa.
These are the people who control
the Government of Lagos State
today, and turn to use the Igbo as
a convenient political scapegoat
whenever their devious exploitative
machinations against the
indigenous Lagosians become
obvious. This is mainly because this
class of artificial Lagosians has
always seen the Igbo as the only
veritable fall-back strategy by which
means the native Lagosians could
gain their internal independence
from their co-Oduduwa
oppressors.
It is on record that during the First
Republic both Lagos and Ibadan,
the two most prominent Yoruba
cities heavily relied on the Igbo-led
NCNC for the actualization their
political objectives against the
Obafemi Awolowo-led Action
Group. Even Chief Victor Fani-
Kayode, then the Chief thug to
Chief Obafemi Awolowo fell out of
favour with his master in 1959 his
point of refuge was Dr Nnamdi
Azikiwe, who promptly appointed
him Leader of Opposition in the
Western House of Assembly that
same year. Chief Obafemi Awolowo
took the same line of seeking Igbo
succor when he ordered his
followers while in prison to ally
with the Igbo-led NCNC to forge a
common front against reactionary
forces in Nigeria of which Chief
Victor Fani-Kayode a.k.a. Fani-
Power was one such element. So
Chief Femi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode
lacks every moral pedigree to speak
for the Yoruba nation because his
father had been a Yoruba quisling,
and above all not a true Yoruba
son. Today one fact is pertinent to
anyone who savours in the stream
of cyclic history Historyrepeats
itself only to those who stubbornly
refuse to learn from its lessons.
There is no doubt that with
theapproach of the epic political
battle of 2015, many desperate and
opportunistic attempts would be
made by some political
desperados, particularly those
whose political garbs are woven in
uncertain future to cause the
repeat of Nigeria’s sad political
history. This is the ship Chief Femi
Abdulateef Fani-Kayode finds himelf
today. He has been out of power
and with it came out of money. He
is thus in a mission of survival,
albeit in a most fatal approach.
In recent times, Nigerians have
unwittingly witnessed the
unguarded utterances of such
political desperados as Malams
Nasir el-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu,
both of whom were shot into
unmerited political prominence
from obscurity by the sheer
political benevolence of President
Olusegun Obasanjo. Equally lately,
it became the turn of one of the
celebrated renegades of the apex
Yoruba socio-cultural organization-
Afenifere and one-time factional
leader of Alliance for democracy
(AD), Alhaji Bisi Akande to label the
President of his country a
kindergathen President, all in the
name of finding the means to
create a leeway of political conflict.
Any person who therefore lives
within the orbit of Nigeria’s stream
of political progress would easily
catch up with the inert motive of
this stream of unguarded
provocations against the
administration of President
Jonathan. The Boko Haram
insurgency, far from acting the
script of alternative state power,
subsequently became a dog-eat-
dog political cul-de-sac. Those who
had hoped to use the deadly
Islamic blood-suckers as a full-back
alternative strategy if they
eventually lose the presidential
election against President Jonathan
in 2015 are now at a loss as to
what next to do. For it has become
obvious that neither are they sure
of winning the epic electoral battle
nor would Boko Haram survive to
play the expected yoman role in
2015. It thus became crystal clear
when it became the turn of the
most colourless political clown of
President Olusegun Obasanjo
administration to join this stream
of agents provocateurs, most
politically discerning people quite
knew where Chief Femi Abdulateef
Fani-Kayode was coming from and
where he was going to.
With a quisling political and
subservient pedigree haunted by a
jaundiced Nupe ancestry, laced
with a foggy Saro-Yoruba identity
compex, nothing better should
have better been expected from
Chief David Oluwafemi adewunmi
abdulateef Fani-Kayode, a.k.a. Femi
Fani-kayode, than his spineless
historical verbosity woven in
outright haft-truths and infantile
sensationalism. As a professional
historian, replying to such musings
of a habitual moronic mind would
amount to giving Femi Abdulateef
Fani-Kayode an unmerited
intellectual prominence, which
indeed is his hidden motive behind
his calculated infamy against the
Igbo.
But one question which readily
strikes the mind is, does being an
alumnus of Cambridge University
automatically transform Abdulateef
Fani-Kayode into an expert of
anything? As a lawyer, if one may
be tempted to ask, what intellectual
and professional landmarks could
Abdulateef Fani-Kayode lay claim
to? Is it not on record that this
same Abdulateef Fani-Kayode has
not been able to run and manage a
viable law firm, just as his father,
Chief Victor Babaremilekun
Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode could
not, but relied on the tutelage of
the likes of Chief Rotimi Williams
and later Justicoe Soweminmo.
Thus outside the spoils of political
office, Femi Abdulateef Fani-
Kayode, like his father Victor, is
bound to be a political desperado
any he is put out political office. It
is only calamitous that he chose
the Igbo this time for his habitual
vain-glorious attempt to re-launch
himself into political relevance.
His attacks on the Igbo as to which
people are the bona fide owners of
Lagos State is thus as misplaced
and misdirected as it is a desperate
self-propping political venture for a
diminished political carpet-bagger.
One fact is pertinent, the Nigeria’s
convention one’s origins, Lagos is
neither the home of the Igbo nor
any Yoruba whose parents
migrated from somewhere else
outside Yorubaland, whether the
person is born there or not. Lagos
belongs to a definable ethnic and
sub-ethnic groups of people- the
Eko of Lagos Island and mainland
who could even conveniently claim
Bini ancestry, the Egba of Epe and
Ikorodu axis, the Egbado of Agege-
Ifako-Ijaiye axis the Egun of
Badagry axis, and the Awori of
western axis. It thus follows that
any Yoruba cannot fall within any
of these categories of native
Lagosians is as good a stranger as
any Igbo resident in Lagos, just as
any non-Onitsha Igbo resident in
Onitsha cannot claim any better
right over a Yoruba resident there.
Chief David Oluwafemi Adewunmi
Abdulateef Fani-Kayode is the least
of any Yorubaman to cast any form
of aspersion on Igbo contributions
to the development of Lagos State,
for he is not of original Yoruba
protegy. He cannot identify his line
of ancestry beyond his great-grand
father Reverand Emmanuel
Adedapo kayodes, a Nupe Sierra
Leonean captive of the British Anti-
Slavery squad from a Portuguese
Slave merchant vessel of the coast
of Dahomey. Reverend Emmanuel
Kayode was eventually adopted as
a house-boy by Bishop Samuel
Ajayi Crowther who gave him
Yoruba names and subsequently
trained him up to Fourah Bay
College, Freetown and enlisted him
as an Anglican Priest. Reverend
kayode, in line with the tradition of
the Saro-Yoruba of the time,
subsequently adopted Ife as his
ancestral home in a bid to
historically confirm his new Yoruba
identity.
But his father Chief Victor
Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-
Kayode, fully aware of the
artificiality of his Yoruba identity
later identified the Nupe town of
Pategi in the present Niger State as
his Grand-father’s ancestral home
after he had disrespectfully
confronted Chief Obafemi Awolowo
in Public and the latter had politely
reminded him of his Nupe
ancestry. It was in reaction to this
obvious revelation by Chief
Obafemi Awolowo that he resorted
to naming his children after some
prominent members of his Nupe
family, hence “Abdulateef”, a purely
Muslim name was given to his son
Femi. The same tradition of Muslim
name was applied to Femi’s elder
brother who died a number of
years ago. It this fact is not on the
line of history, let Chief Femi
Kayode explain to Nigerians the
source of his Muslim name when
he claims a pedigree of traditional
Christian family, especially when
even his mother had strong
Christian family background.
In fact again in 1959, during one of
his father’s infamous public
altercations with Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, he was again reminded
by the respected sage of his Nupe
ancestry. It was when he could no
longer bear it that he decamped
the same year to NCNC where the
Great Zik promptly elevated him to
the Leader of Opposition in
Western House of Assembly. Is it
therefore not an irony of political
fate that somebody whose father
sought refuge under the canopy of
Igbo political leadership and
granted with honour when he was
rejected by Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, could now turn his
burden of frosty political
frustration against his father’s very
mentors.
But that again explains the irony of
a pedigree woven in a habitual
tradition of political harlotry,
infantile opportunism, and a
despondency crafted in pig-headed
obstinacy. His father Chief Victor
Fani-Kayode was never an ingrained
Yoruba patriot and nationalist, but
a cash n’ carry politician. If Chief
Obafemi Awolowo was accused of
introducing political thuggery in
Nigerian politics, it was in fact his
father as the Action Group National
Youth Leader that imposed the idea
on Chief Awolowo. This again
equally explains why his father was
always at daggers-drawn with Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, for on several
occasions he had attempted to
unleash that thuggery virus on
Chief Awolowo himself.
If Chief Femi Abdulateef Fani-
Kayode opened his wide mouth to
insult the integrity of the Igbo
people, it is only because the virus
of insubordination and rudeness
run in their blood. If his father did
the same to Chief Obafemi
Awolowo then Nigerians should
accept such action against the Igbo
as an act of accursed political
prodigality. Moulded by a
shameless quisling culture, if Femi
Abdulateef Fani-Kayode insulted
late President Umaru Yar’Adua
even in death, yesterday insulted
the person of President Goodluck
Jonathan, and today insults the
Igbo, he does so because he is still
under the spell of Chief Awolowo’s
curse on his father.
That he lately decamped to APC is
yet another show-casing of his
father’s tradition. When it became
obvious that the fortunes of Action
Group was becoming dim with its
relegation to National opposition
party in 1959, his father decamped
to NCNC. When again the fortunes
of NCNC became dim with the
alliance of Chief Samuel Akintola’s
faction of Action Group with the
reactionary Northern People’s
Congress, his father again dumped
NCNCN for Samuel akintola’s newly
formed Nigerian National
Democratic Party (NNDP), where
he was elevated to the post of
Deputy Premier and Regional
Minister of Local Government
Affairs. It was therefore not
surprising that his father should be
singled out by the young
revolutionaries of January 15, 1966
led by the enigmatic and gallant
Captain Nwaobosi to be dealt with.
Femi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode had
once confessed that it would be
had for him to forgive the Igbo
after witnessing as a six-year child
how his father was humiliated by
Captain Nwaobosi by causing him
to lie down and given thirty-six
lashes of the cane, before he was
led to Akintola’s home. Thus if Femi
Abdulateef Fani-Kayode expresses
an inveterate hatred of the Igbo, he
does that as a consequence of his
father’s gruesome experience be an
Igbo army officer, one can easily
sympathize with him.
But as history is bound to repeat
itself for those who fail to learn
from its lessons, Chief Femi
Abdulateef Fani-Kayode should be
advised to watch his cliff-diving
political despondency, if he does
not wish to learn from his father’s
lessons of history. The Igbo would
wish a real Yoruba- a “son of the
soil” with a culture of untainted
political integrity and traceable
Yoruba ancestry to speak on
matters of Igbo-Yoruba relations,
and not a man of foggy Yoruba
ancestry, a cloned Sierra Leonean
Yoruba of Nupe ancestry, safe for
the benevolence of patchy Yoruba
names. Chief David Oluwafemi
Abdulateef Adewunmi Fani-Kayode
has no better right of ancestral
Lagos State than any Igbo born and
bred there. A Gambari par
excellence.

This article is just a "long" rubbish...mscheeew

kunlekunle: Fabrictaed story, another igobtic propaganda.
OBJ's grandfather was igbo,
kwankaso town was a bastardised name originally nwankwo stores.
Bunch of ACHEBE's reminants. story teller

It is even feverishly laughable that fickle-minded junkies such as the poster of above post would continue in their quest to claim unfounded fallacies to boaster their empty ego. All the empty claims the Yoruba had proclaimed in Nigeria are false and clouded with murderous inadequacies. Every returnee who came with British or invited to Lagos colony became a Yoruba.

Anyway, empty barrels make the most noise.

kodewrita: Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A large number of Oyo people have Nupe/Borgu blood in their veins. In fact, Oyo town has had Borgu rulers before so this is not earth-shaking news.

The important thing is that as of this moment, he is Yoruba. End of story.

Almost everybody known as Yoruba today could be Nupe. After all, Nupe and Fulani sacked Oyo Empire and its capital city at Oyo-ile situated 30 mile north of Ilorin.

A large number of nupe were originally yoruba.

Its the other way round.