Femi Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister, has revealed the reason why the Nigerian police invited him for interrogation at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.
In a note to The Trent on Tuesday, September 5, 2018, Chief Fani-Kayode, a vocal opposition figure and a thought leader in Nigeria, said that he was questioned with regards to a three-part essay titled, ‘Five Useful Idiots and the Spirit of the Accursed Slave’.
This development is just one more in a string of abuse of power and clamp down on free speech and individual freedoms by the Muhammadu Buhari-led regime.
Fani-Kayode, it was learnt, was grilled for about an hour and then asked to return on another day for more interrogation.
The two-time minister said that the interview was cordial and the police were professional during his time with them. He also vowed to continue expressing his opinion in the public space.
“I had a cordial interview with the policemen. The police were courteous and professional,” he wrote to The Trent on Whatsapp,” he wrote.
“I was invited because of my essay titled “Five Useful Idiots and the Spirit Of the Accursed Slave” which was about Fulani hegemony and terrorism together with other write-ups. No regrets. I will hit harder and write more.”
In the essay which was published in March, the former minister lambasted the Governor of Plateau State, Solomon Lalong, for blaming the herdsmen attacks on Governor Samuel Ortom’s refusal to scrap the anti-grazing law.
Fani-Kayode also lambasted the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, for describing the herdsmen attacks in Kogi State as a family affair among Kogi indigenes.
He also knocked a former Minister of Information and current chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Prince Tony Momoh, for saying the Fulani herdsmen were victims of tribal politics.
The former minister said in the article that the herdsmen attacks were part of a larger scheme to dominate and recolonise Nigeria.
