Femi Fani-Kayode, a prominent thought leader in Nigeria, has slammed Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for absenting himself from the 51st ECOWAS Heads of Government meeting in which the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in attendance.
The vocal opposition leader, said that this act by Professor Osinbajo, apparently dictated by extremist elements in the Buhari presidency, “marks the beginning of the end” of the Buhari regime and for the country.
In a statement delivered to The Trent by email on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, Fani-Kayode said that Osinbajo expressed cowardice by absenting himself from the important event.
“Mark this: the boycotting of the ECOWAS Heads of Government meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by the Buhari/Osinbajo government marks the beginning of the end for them,” Chief Fani-Kayode wrote.
“It may also mark the beginning of the end for Nigeria. It has resulted in a deep and debilitating spiritual wound.
“We are not a Muslim country but rather a modern, plural, 21st century, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multiracial secular state in which over 90 million Christians love and adore the great nation of Israel.
“For Acting President Osinbajo particularly, who lays claim to being a pastor and a believer, to snub and insult the Jewish state in this way is not only disappointing but also shameless, reprehensible and deeply repugnant.
“Is his fear of the cabal greater than his fear of God?
“He knows the spiritual implications of what he has done even if he will not admit to them publicly.
“The bible says ‘what profiteth a man to gain the world and lose his soul?’,
“Let us wait and see those implications manifest and the consequences of his action unfold,” he concluded.
Nigeria was conspicuously absent from the ECOWAS Summit held in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.
The two day summit, which started on Saturday, June 3, 2017 was attended Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He will be the first non-African leader to ever address an ECOWAS Summit and also the first Israeli leader to visit West Africa since the 1960s.
Daily Trust reports that that Buhari government officials was evasive when questioned on why the country was absent from the meeting.
