Allow court determine those that undermined Nigeria’s democracy, Fani-Kayode tells US

By Oluyemi Ogunseyin
16 May 2023 | 10:23 am



Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday told the United States to allow the court to determine those that undermined Nigeria’s democracy.

US on Monday announced through the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, that it had placed visa restrictions on some Nigerians who undermined the 2023 general elections of February and March.

“The United States is committed to supporting and advancing democracy in Nigeria and around the world,” Blinken said.

“Today, I am announcing that we have taken steps to impose visa restrictions on specific individuals in Nigeria for undermining the democratic process during Nigeria’s 2023 elections cycle.”

Fani-Kayode while reacting said that 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 loose 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 legitmate choices during the course of a set of free, fair and credible elections,” Fani-Kayode tweeted.

“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.”

He also said that the irony of it all is that the President whose government has issued a visa ban on selected Nigerians for rigging has himself been accused of election rigging by his predecessor in office and millions of his fellow country men.

“The truth is that the world is becoming less tolerant of double standards, double speak, neo-colonialism, pseudo-imperialism, the hypocrisy and interference of big, rich and powerful countries, who believe that they own and rule the world, in the affairs of less rich and less poweful ones and the practice of what Lord Palmerston, Great Britain’s 18th century Foreign Minister impudently and arrogantly enunciated and described as the implementation of a ‘paternalistic foreign policy’.

“African leaders generally and Nigerian leaders particularly are not mice. They do not scramble and scatter at the sound of a gong and they do not quiver or wet their pants in the face of a gratutious insult, threat or storm.”

Source: https://guardian.ng/news/allow-court-determine-those-that-undermined-nigerias-democracy-fani-kayode-tells-us

FFK is jittery because he knows his name will surely top the list

1D1OT

FFK, the broken record, is absolutely correct on this score.

Nigeria ain't no vassal state, we iz a regional power. Africa's very own GIANT, if I might add.

Mumu man...you are definitely top 10 in the list

DSS1335:
Mumu man...you are definitely top 10 in the list

At his age USA visa gives him blood? He is a UK citizen and don't need USA visa for any thing

Perhaps FFK is jittery that his name will make the list.

The United States has their people on ground to monitor the elections themselves.

So, they won't depend on the corrupt judiciary to validate or invalidate what they witnessed themselves.

You don't need a court to show or tell people who publicly threatened lives and tribes in the name of election.
It is all over the media space.

Even the Judges will collect wotowoto if they try anything funny

F F Kolanut don piss for pant.

USA has downloaded all your threats.
Next time, control your basketmouth.

DaddyJapan:
FFK, the broken record, is absolutely correct on this score.

Nigeria ain't no vassal state, we iz a regional power. Africa's very own GIANT, if I might add.

Giant of the rigging and looting indeed.

I guess Nigerians should wait for court to tell sane people that the likes of MC Oluomo and his gang of thugs that police was defending are electoral violators undermining democracy? FFK is an idiot.

DaddyJapan:
FFK, the broken record, is absolutely correct on this score.

Nigeria ain't no vassal state, we iz a regional power. Africa's very own GIANT, if I might add.

USA is saying some Nigerians have one what them US feel is against their own standard of demoncratic practice ....so they would not allow such individuals into USA


How in the name of God is that undermining Nigerian sovereign status ?

The only working thing in Nigeria,is ffk's mouth.

sonature1:
Perhaps FFK is jittery that his name will make the list.

The United States has their people on ground to monitor the elections themselves.

So, they won't depend on the corrupt judiciary to validate or invalidate what they witnessed themselves.

Who gives a fvck about what US think, slavery mentality is why Peter Obi & his demented supporters are begging for Uk & US validation.

I don't blame US, afterall Peter Obi and his naive supporters have being giving Uk & US so much credence, as if Nigerians are still slaves under colonial masters..

US is just one country in the world, fvck US fvck obedient crying we are a sovereign Nation and not a million press from Datti & Peter Obi can trauncate our hard earn democracy becos when Nigerians were fighting Abacha, peter Obi decided to accept an appointment from Abacha. A man that see no Issue working for the devil is mostly like EVIL himself

I guarantee the following names will appear on the US list

FFK
Onanuga
MC Oluomo
Oba of Elegushi
Bola Tinubu
Lagos state Police PRO (i.e MC Oluomo's Police spokesman)
Lagos INEC REC

Ofunaofu:
FFK is jittery because he knows his name will surely top the list

He is a British citizen. He does not need a visa to visit the USA.

raskymonojendor:

He is a British citizen. He does not need a visa to visit the USA.

So because he is a British citizen, he can engage in activities that undermine our democratic process and will go unpunished

If the US is really serious, then Tinubu that told his supporters to snatch it, steal it, grab it and run away with it should top the list.

Others include that tout called MC Oluomo; while FFK & the mumu Bayo Onunuga should definitely make the list.

raskymonojendor:

He is a British citizen. He does not need a visa to visit the USA.

I don't think this is true.

CYBERSOLDIERSre:


Giant of the rigging and looting indeed.

Erm...there is voter suppression even in so-called advanced democracies.
It is of course reprehensible, and in no way justifies what happened in the our recent elections, but let's maintain a sense of proportion by not de-marketing Nigeria completely.

Voter suppression: how democracies around the world are using new rules to make it harder to vote

...Attempts to stop voters getting to polling stations, increase waiting times to place a ballot or add restrictions on who can vote are becoming issues in democracies around the world.

Techniques vary, but the intention is the same – to make voting more difficult. In the recent US midterm elections, lines at polling stations in the US state of Georgia, left citizens queueing for hours, often without access to seating or water, following the introduction of new rules.

Under those laws, the number of places where people could drop off their ballots was reduced, and their opening times restricted. For instance, the number of drop boxes in four counties in Georgia with high numbers of African-American residents was cut from 107 to 25.

Source: https://theconversation.com/voter-suppression-how-democracies-around-the-world-are-using-new-rules-to-make-it-harder-to-vote-194483

Ok

DaddyJapan:


I don't think this is true.

His father was born in the UK which grants him the right to British citizenship, and British nationals only need travel authorization and not a visa for USA.

You mean zoo court that is being presided by zoo animals? What do they know about laws? Use MNK's case as a case study. I blame the useful idiot Igbos that are still shouting new nigeria. Ndi ara everywhere.

raskymonojendor:

His father was born in the UK which grants him the right to British citizenship, and British nationals only need travel authorization and not a visa for USA.

Are you of the opinion that he will go unpunished for engaging in activities that undermined our democratic process

.. Why is FFK losing sleep over ordinary visa ban when no name was mentioned

raskymonojendor:

His father was born in the UK which grants him the right to British citizenship, and British nationals only need travel authorization and not a visa for USA.

I remain unconvinced based on breadcrumbs I see elsewhere but will post no further comments on the subject for now.

DSS1335:
Mumu man...you are definitely top 10 in the list

He can't even travel anywhere out of Nigeria. His passport has been in the custody of the EFCC for years. His best bet is to continue doing what he's doing now. That's the only way he can survive

Ofunaofu:


Are you of the opinion that he will go unpunished for engaging in activities that undermined our democratic process

Nope. Every and anyone of all political parties that tries to or even undermines our democracy should be punished as long as there are solid evidences to back up the claim.
C'est fini.

FFK why you dey fear fear naa.. So fast?

Habaa..

People must learn to chain their negative energy