The reminiscences of a popular yoruba drama tittled saworoide came to the fore as Nigerians continue to drill a deep thought on femi fani kayode's drama durring a press conference on Tuesday in cross rivers state.
In the drama, a journalist asked chief lere paimo how he acquired the fleet of cars in his compound, instead of chief paimo to explain in a clear term, he pounced on the innocent journalist, calling him a stupid man and he was whisked out of chief paimo 's compound.
The scene is just an exact replica of how former minister of aviation, femi fani kayode threw caution into the wind and displayed his real character.
Was anybody bankrolling you? That was what Eyo Charles of daily trust newspaper asked femi fani kayode, but for the latter to answer logically, it was a festival of abuse.
Even if FFK, As foundly called was being bankrolled or not, this piece believes he must have attended one or two leadership trainings where he would have been taught how to be logical and strategic in dealing with official issues.
No Nigerian needs an angel to prove that femi fani kayode openly displayed his domestic character in place of his official attitude.
Only God knows how he talks and behaves to his immediate family members.
FFK should be reminded that no question is bad, particularly from a trained journalist, it is how such question is being answered that proves the worthiness of such question.
A print journalist once asked former governor Rasheed Ladoja of oyo state when he was contesting that " chief Ladoja, don't u think u are too ugly to govern the state"? And chief ladoja, in a spirit of tolerance, answered the question logically and convincingly.
Few years ago, a broadcast journalist asked former governor Rauf Aregbesola of what happened to the much-celebrated opon imo project, which of course had gone moribund, Ogbeni Aregbesola's answer ignited applause, even when people knew his defence was watery.
Were those questions not more irritating than that of Eyo Charles?
Femi Fani kayode needs to be brushed in the area of his situational public speaking abilities, what happened on Tuesday was more of moral than of diplomacy.
The national body of members of the pen profession should not sweep the issue under the carpet, an injustice to one is an injustice to all.
No amount of damage control strategy, put up by the former minister should stop the NUJ from letting power-drunk FFK know that pen is mightier than gun.
This piece wants other Nigerian politicians, who are always rude, to learn t
He represents an eye sore in the Nigerian political platform even when he claims to have joined politics since 1990, who cares?.
Political maturity only speaks when those in the platform have matured minds.
The Piece is Written by Aladesanmi oyekanmi, an akure based broadcast journalist.
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