Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council (PCC), has again criticized the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, for comments he made during the recently concluded gubernatorial election in Lagos State, saying Nigerians were not slaves to be ordered around.
On a current affairs programme on Nigerian Info on Sunday, Llewellyn-Jones lamented that the ruling APC had yet to distance itself from Fani-Kayode’s controversial remarks, to which the former aviation minister responded in a series of tweets on Sunday evening, saying he was not intimidated by the British envoy.
However, in a tweet on Monday morning, Fani-Kayode challenged the British envoy to do his worst, saying Nigerians were not slaves to be told what to do.
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According to FFK, “We are not your slaves. Nigeria is an independent sovereign nation. We are no longer a colony. To hell with him and those that are egging him on and licking his feet. I am FFK: I fear no-one and I bow before no man.”
He wrote further, “He has accused me of hate speech and incitement simply because I said Lagos is not a no man’s land and that the Yoruba ought to be respected in their territory. Well let me say clearly and categorically that I have no apology for saying this and I stand by every word I said. We do not need any lessons from him. Foreign diplomats come to this country to enhance our relationship with theirs and not to give us lectures.
“They are not supposed to interfere in our internal affairs, to be partial, to tell us what to do or to tell us how to do it. They are meant to observe in studied silence and make their concerns and representations, if any, known privately. They cannot get into the political ring of fire.”
He added that foreign diplomats should not tell people who to vote for, how to vote or what God to worship.