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Journalists carpet Fani-Kayode over attack on Daily Trust reporter

David Adenekan
David Adenekan
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Journalists across the nation have carpeted former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode, over his attack on a Daily Trust reporter, Eyo Charles, who asked him a simple question during a press conference in Calabar, Cross River State, last week.

Fani-Kayode, in continuation of his tour of some Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, controlled states visited Cross River State, where a press conference was organised for him.

At the conference, the Daily Trust reporter, Charles, asked a simple question of whether his trips to the states were sponsored.

Fani Kayode, however, did not take kindly to the question as he became enraged and described the reporter as stupid among other insults.

His words: “What type of stupid question is that? Bankrolling who? Do you know who you are talking to? I will not take any questions from this man.

“What type of insulting question is that? Which bankroll? To do what? Who can give me money for anything? Who do you think you are talking to? Go and report yourself to your publisher? Please don’t insult me here. I don’t want to take any questions from this man.

“I could see from your face before you got here, how stupid you are. Don’t ever talk to me like that. Who do you think you’re talking to.  Bankroll who? You think I am one of those ones you… from who, when, how? You have a small mind, very small mind. Don’t judge me by your own standards.

“I have been in politics since 1990… I have been locked up many times by this government. Suffered. I have been persecuted unlike most of the politicians you follow for brown envelope. Don’t ever judge me by that standard. I spend I don’t take and I am not a poor man — I have never been and I will never be.”

Journalists across the nation have since taken to the social media, lambasting Fani Kayode over his action, as the video went viral.

Some of the comments by journalists read:

Ayo Olesin (Publisher, thenewsmatrics.com)

For those who have no idea what buffoonery means… Please watch the clip of FFK’s tirade against an apparently hapless reporter who doesn’t appear to know his onions.

Sunny Igboanugo (Publisher of whirlwindnews.com)

I would have given it back to FFK in equal measures. Nobody should speak to a journalist in this manner and no journalist should take this. Surely, this must be a starter, a novice or a fake journalist. I’m so angry. Who does FFK think he is? The best he could do was to ignore the question… I think this is unacceptable. It’s insufferable to say the least.

Marcus Fatunmole

It will be a curse of monumental proportion if any political group in which FFK has a strong influence returns to lead this nation. He’s better expelled before then.

Sola Shittu

Your outburst is absolutely absurd and uncalled for. If there is anything you have succeeded in doing today, definitely not in humiliating this honourable young man but rather you have succeeded in making a public show of your ilks parading themselves as Nigeria leaders.

Since you are a lawyer that knows everything, I wonder why it probably omitted your mind that there is no wrong question in journalism. You can simply decline not to answer and that’s all. I dare you to go ahead and report the young man to his publisher as you threatened and I assure you that you will receive the wrath of the pen that is mightier than sword. For your information Mr. Ex Minister and lawyer, journalism is not a job for slaves, it is a noble profession of nationalists and men of integrity who sacrificed and even lay down their lives for the politics that now turns you to public tyrant.

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