nickydof:
Clean water cannot be served out of a dirty cup! The legitimacy and integrity of the message is definitely soiled by the illegitimacy and dishonesty of the sender. FFK, go confess your sins, come out clean before any of your messages can be taken seriously! We the CHELSEA FANS, detest you!

For the records, his innocence was not only proven when the supreme court discharged and acquitted him of all charges, but also when Christ die on the cross for him. He has since been saved.

You are a fake Chelsea fan, and I detest your hypocrisy and wannabe personality.

he really made some questionable points that need urgent and sincere answer mind you I supported PMB but this Boko Harm attacks is getting out of hands I read this mo.rning that BH has killed over 5000 Nigerians this year while some deaths uncounted for. this we have won Technically is out of reality. let not play the blame game but we should unite to fight this comm
on enemies.@simply datmat...

anonimi:
Where are the supporters of the LIAR, LIAR people

I know you. You were at Abuja for the change media agent party abi with Aisha. E yah, you Don resume duty..

He is in the opposition now. Frequent satirical essays/letters brilliantly written is expected. However, his feeble attempt at exonerating the ex security adviser is laughable. Why, a trillion naira budgeted for security did as much as a middling hundred million could. Call it a politically motivated witch-hunt or whatever suits you. Dasuki stole and should pay for it. Writing sentimentally originated letters would do no good, Mr FFK.

ddippset:
so you really insinuante that the president of the federal republic of Nigeria is better off sitting his assss down and reading such a long epistle written by femi fani kayode than taking a trip to China? Are you kidding me or what?

well, if sitting his ass down (like you rightly put it)to read a bitter yet true criticism from an opposition to know the true situation of things in this country,and putting things right, then sitting his ass down is worth more than travelling to China.Your house can't be on fire and you go out to visit a friend. immposicant!!!!!!

the bitter truth APC would like to hear

WaffenSS:


The biggest fallacy is believing FFK is fighting for the common man, or the victims of Boko Haram.

A great many of the victims of BH are the very Fulani herdsmen FFK vilifies at every opportunity.

And what of the victims of these fulani herdsmen, are they figments of FFK's imagination too

In summary pls,

first time this man is making sense...so on point. waiting for Festus Keyamo to defend Bihari on this...... #grabsmat.

Welder:


Really? Why not focus on the message and ignore the messenger.

How will the heediot focus on the message when he was at Abuja few days ago eating rice and chicken in the name social media change agents party...

WaffenSS:


The biggest fallacy is believing FFK is fighting for the common man, or the victims of Boko Haram.

A great many of the victims of BH are the very Fulani herdsmen FFK vilifies at every opportunity.

Stop being silly Mr man, @youngnoble gave you an uppercut. Adrress the points raised by the writer and leave his person. You and I know that the points raised are valid ones.

As for the murderous blood-drinking fulani herdsmen, was it FFK that listed them as the fourth deadlist terror group in the world? The fulanis have sacked entire communities in the MB, they ravage farms and rape women at will, I am inclined to believe that these demons called fulani herdsmen have probably killed more Nigerians than boko haram.

Many Buhari supporters no longer use their heads but go about shouting "Sai baba" like wild animals, I smh.

BraniacX:


And what of the victims of these fulani herdsmen, are they figments of FFK's imagination too

You can say fulani miscreants, or even criminals.
But not herdsmen.

And in every tribe and culture everyone has thugs and killers. Amongst FFK's yorubas are some undesirables, and don't even get me started on igbos.

My father was a herdsman, and he departed this world a saintly soul who never wished anyone no harm.

BraniacX:


And what of the victims of these fulani herdsmen, are they figments of FFK's imagination too

You can say fulani miscreants, or even criminals.
But not herdsmen.

And in every tribe and culture everyone has thugs and killers. Amongst FFK's yorubas are some undesirables, and don't even get me started on igbos.

BraniacX:


And what of the victims of these fulani herdsmen, are they figments of FFK's imagination too

That is how most Buhari supporters are, they ignore the message passed across and attack the messanger. See valid points raised here by FFK and someone pretended not to see all of them only to turn around and attack his person.

Passingshot remains the most objective Buhari supporter on nairaland, all the others are brainwashed zombies.

WaffenSS:


You can say fulani miscreants, or even criminals.
But not herdsmen.

And in every tribe and culture everyone has thugs and killers. Amongst FFK's yorubas are some undesirables, and don't even get me started on igbos.

Yes, we can say herdsmen because we see them moving around with AK 47s while security agencies look the other way. They gather and attack harmless villages at night finishing them all and then occupy their lands for grazing, go and ask Benue and Plateau people.

If you like start and end your life with Igbos, we don't go about blasting churches, mosques and motor packs, our girls don't go about wearing bombs like bra to kill people. There are no Igbo herdsmen going about eliminating communities at night, raping women and ravaging farmlands.

Buhari is not educated enough to understand some sentences here let alone read all paragraphs and aassimilate it as well.

Buhari lacks remembering and retaining memory. FFK pls when next u write, use simple English used in foreign books for easy comprehension.

Fayose had advised him to hand over to VP if he lacks ideology to govern.

lokobyforch:
Mr. President, as one of your most loyal and faithful subjects who has nothing but the utmost respect for your person and your office I am constrained to write you this open letter. This is because there are a number of issues that I believe that it is important for you to clarify and to come clean on. I say this because some of your assertions of late are at best contradictory and at worst patently dishonest.

Whichever side of the political divide we are on I believe that we can all agree on one thing: that the prosecution of the war against terror is not something that any of us should play politics with. This is especially so given the fact that human lives are at stake and the very existence of our nation is under threat. Like much of the rest of the world our country is going through hell at the hands of the jihadists and Islamist terrorists.

There is no gainsaying that we must all come to terms with the fact that the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL), Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Al Shabab, Boko Haram, Hamas and another group that the internationally-respected Global Terror Index has described as the ”Fulani militants” (aka Fulani herdsmen) are nothing but bloodthirsty murderers and the lowest form of life. They are indeed the scum of the earth, the troublers of humanity and the vermin of hell. It is with this in mind that I urge you to take the war against terror far more seriously than you are doing and plead with you to stop passing the buck.

Your penchant for blaming your failings in this regard on the previous administration is simply nauseating and it does not serve you well. You continuously contradict yourself when it comes to this matter and frankly such flip flops are unworthy of the office that you presently occupy. We your subjects look up to you for consistency, strength, unequivocal commitment, a firm resolve and the ”leadership from the front” that you promised during your presidential campaign in this war. We do not want and neither do we need doublespeak, lame excuses and buck passing.

Permit me to point out a few examples of your contradictory assertions and your buck passing in this short intervention. Initially you claimed that your predecessor in office President Goodluck Jonathan never bought any arms and that instead he squandered and stole all the money that was appropriated for the procurement of arms.

Yet when the British Minister of Defense visited you in the Presidential Villa the other day the story changed. You did a U-turn and gleefully told him and the wider world that President Jonathan bought arms with raw cash.

One wonders which story you shall come up with next and which one you will conjure up in the future. Kindly tell us what the position is: is it that Jonathan did not buy arms at all and stole all the money or is it that he used cash to buy arms? You cannot have it both ways. It is either one or the other.

Quite apart from your glaring doublespeak on this matter there was another issue which you ought to have raised with your highly esteemed and respected British guest. You forgot to tell him that his was one of the countries that not only refused to sell weapons to us during the course of this bitter conflict but that also helped to impose and enforce the international arms embargo on our country even though we are at war.

This resulted in the unnecessary death of thousands of our people because we found it difficult to procure the weapons to protect them. Your guest’s country insisted on towing the American line and doing this to us even though we were fighting a war against a relentless, well-motivated, well-funded and well-armed fighting force that Global Terror Index has described as the ”deadliest terrorist organization in the world”. One is forced to ask: with friends like this who needs enemies?

Given the fact that the embargo was in place one wonders how we were supposed to procure arms unless we did so with raw cash on the black market. The alternative was to buy none at all, to do nothing and to allow Boko Haram to take Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Lagos. Perhaps that is precisely what your western friends and allies wanted but thankfully it never came to pass.

Despite the challenges and constraints President Jonathan faced, instead of losing any more ground, he rose to the occasion and retook no less than 22 local government areas and virtually pushed Boko Haram out of Nigeria. The only place that they occupied by the time the election took place was Sambisa forest.

Jonathan achieved all this with those arms that he bought with raw cash. This is apparently what you are now complaining about. Permit me to remind you that it is those same arms that Jonathan bought with raw cash that your army is still using till today. Yet sadly since you were sworn in as President seven months ago you have lost some of those same local government areas that were earlier recovered and they are now back in the hands of the terrorists.

Despite this you keep telling the international community and the Nigerian people that we are ”making progress” in the war against terror. As a matter of fact you went as far as to say that we had ”won the war” against Boko Haram and your Minister of Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed, echoed that grotesque mendacity and reiterated that sentiment by adding the words ”technically won” (whatever that may mean) to the equation.

Sadly, two days later, on Christmas day, in what can only be described as an eloquent response from the terrorists, scores of innocent civilians were killed by Boko Haram in Borno state and a whole community was burnt to the ground. Again on Sunday 27th of December Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, came under heavy attack from the terrorists. So much for having ”won the war against Boko Haram”, whether ”technically” or otherwise.

Instead of conceding that you had told the Nigerian people a pernicious lie, curiously the next thing that you did was to tell them that you would ”persuade Boko Haram to drop their arms”. One is compelled to ask: why would you have to persuade them to drop their arms if you had already defeated them and won the war against them?

In any case this would be the first time in the history of modern warfare that a sitting President has sought to destroy and defeat a vicious and relentless terrorist organization and win the war against terror simply with the awesome and devastating weapon of persuasion. Perhaps you should recommend that same tactic to the Americans and the rest of the international community as an effective and credible weapon to adopt in their war against ISIL, Al Qaeda, Al Shabab, Hamas and all the other jihadist groups that plague the world.

Whilst you are at it perhaps you could also persuade Boko Haram to free the Chibok girls. It is disturbing to note that despite all your campaign promises and assurances that once you are elected President the girls would be rescued or returned, nothing has been done or heard about any of them ever since you were sworn in. Worst still the Bring Back Our Girls Group, which was essentially an appendage of your election organization, together with its distinguished leaders and conveners, appear to have gone very quiet. I guess they are busy trying to persuade Boko Haram to drop their arms too.

The truth is that it is time for you to free yourself from your monumental delusions and to get real. Sadly you appear to be detached from reality. Instead of fighting the war against terror you are making it worse by slaughtering one thousand Shia Muslims in Zaria on December 12th, locking up their leader Sheik Ibrahim El Zakzaky and opening yet another war front in our country. The last thing that we need is for Hezbollah or the Iranian Republican Guard to rise to the occasion, take up the challenge, jump into the fray and decide to protect and avenge their Shia Muslim brothers and sisters in northern Nigeria.

Yet despite the reprehensible and indefensible actions of your military commanders in Zaria you have refused to show any remorse for what was undoubtedly a war crime against fellow Nigerians and you have not prosecuted the officers and military personnel that were involved in the butchery. Instead the homes of the victims and those that share their Shia faith have been burnt to the ground in Zaria and their graves and burial sites have been dug up and desecrated.

Instead of fighting Boko Haram you are fighting and killing your own people. Worse still you have refused to defend our country. I say this because a few days ago the Cameroonian military invaded our country, violated our territorial integrity and savagely murdered over 70 innocent Nigerians in their village before burning it down.

Your government refused to acknowledge that this event even took place, despite the media reports. You did not console or express condolences to the families of the victims or retaliate against the Cameroonians.

You did not even warn them or demand an apology or reparations from them. This is heartless and shameful. It could not have happened under Jonathan, Obasanjo, Babangida, Shagari, Abacha, Abubakar, Shonekan, Mohammed, Balewa or indeed any other former Nigerian President or Head of State. If any of them had been in power and the Cameroonians cultivated the effrontery to do such a thing there would have been consequences.

Yet you did nothing to avenge this affront or to defend our honor. What happened to the gallant and brave General Buhari that courageously led our troops into victory in Chad in the early 1980’s? What happened to the honest and forthright man that we all admired and looked up to because of his military exploits in Chad? What happened to the war hero that gave the Chadians a ”bloody nose” for daring to attack a Nigerian village and that almost took Ndjamena, the Chadian capital? What happened to the man that proved to the Libyans and their Chadian proxies that Nigerians knew how to fight? It appears that you have changed and that you are no longer the man that you used to be.

Instead of being honest with our people you have insisted on selling them a dummy and telling them a lie. You refuse to tell the world that our military is terribly demoralized, our soldiers are suffering heavy casualties and are not being paid their salaries regularly and, worse of all, that you have failed to procure a single bullet or weapon for them to use in the last seven months since you came to power.

Instead of deploying all the power of the state against Boko Haram you have spent all your energy and resources trying to teach the former National Security Advisor, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, and all your other perceived enemies the lesson of their lives by misrepresenting them before the world, subjecting them to state-sponsored tyranny and the most insidious form of persecution, violating their human rights and lying to the world that they stole and shared money that was meant for the purchase of arms.

You have also misled and misinformed the Nigerian people about the rules and conventions that are applied when it comes to the administration of security funds and about the fact that it is the National Assembly alone that has the right to probe the use of such funds as part of their oversight functions. To cap it all you have claimed you did not receive any benefit from the NSA ‘s office whilst Jonathan was in power. This is an assertion which we all know is, at best, questionable.

You must be mindful of the fact that God hates liars and He despises those that abuse power. You must remember that the more you scorn God’s counsel and mock His admonitions the more your errors will be made manifest and the more your people will suffer.

You must understand that any leader or government that is motivated by bitterness, fear, hate, vengeance and malice will eventually hit the rocks and crash like a pack of cards. You must appreciate the fact that God is watching and that He sees and knows all.

May the Lord have mercy on you and may He forgive you for your many sins and wicked ways. God bless Nigeria.

Femi-Fani Kayode is a lawyer, a Nigerian politician, an evangelical christian, an essayist, a poet and he was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006. He was the minister of culture and tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from June 22nd to Nov 7th 2006 and as the minister of Aviation from Nov 7th 2006 to May 29th 2007. He tweets from @realFFK.

http://www.thetrentonline.com/femi-fani-kayode-writes-open-letter-to-muhammadu-buhari-must-read/

Mr FFK I really admire your courage, build up character and doggedness in trashing our contemporary national issues. You are a man of high intellectual capability whom people should listen to, because you words and ideas Pierce the heart of all including your enemies cos they are all facts, truth and has basis upon which nature pledge conformity to, even for heaven ma lols na so. I am a Jonathanarain cos I believe in his visions and ideologies, he is a man of notable character and believes in national psyllosophy and development. But was ousted with political lies and propaganda mythology, but this is where we find our selves now. Let us try to make this country better by combining all our efforts together, we can only achieve this if and only Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will join hands together with President Buhari cos their electioneering process and how it was played have left a sense of grudge in the minds of the masses in the sense that if care is not necessarily given to our national discord will satisfy the selfishness of international communities. Let us forget about elder statesmen like Obasonjo and cohorts that should be joining our ancestors any time
sooner and try to bring this two gentle men together. I believe is Goodluck and I believe Buhari, let the both of them throw their despairate disposition and unite us, together we can achieve a lot. God bless Goodluck, God bless Nigeria.

EUROBOMBER:


Yes, we can say herdsmen because we see them moving around with AK 47s while security agencies look the other way. They gather and attack harmless villages at night finishing them all and then occupy their lands for grazing, go and ask Benue and Plateau people.

If you had the misfortune of coming across a group of violent, nomadic "herdsmen" wielding assault weapons such as the mind of FFK portrays and you herein perpetuate, you shall not live to tell tales.

Fulanis are in great numbers across Africa. If they're the terrorists you believe they're, countries like Mali, Senegal and Cameroon would've been all over the news fighting them. Half of the sahel would've been in flames.

The fact is some thieves and brigands attack people, and your infectious paranoia terms them herdsmen.

If they're herdsmen how come they attack and disappear when they've a bunch of slow cows to steer?

FG has technically dèfeated BH
-BH has technicaly killed pple in borno and set village ablaze.
-Nigeria pple are technicaly waitng for the FG response.
-why this govt is technicaly playing with Nigerians live in a technical atmosphere.
God bless Nigeria.

This is purely the truth.........

Buhari should stop giving unnecesssary excuses.
There is no time again.


This is almost one year now......

nickydof:
Clean water cannot be served out of a dirty cup! The legitimacy and integrity of the message is definitely soiled by the illegitimacy and dishonesty of the sender. FFK, go confess your sins, come out clean before any of your messages can be taken seriously! We the CHELSEA FANS, detest you!

Our Lord Jesus Christ was whiter than white and whiter than snow, yet he came out of a manger.

It obvious now that the money allocated to Ffk's office during the last presidential election won't ever go up....May be the cash allocated to him is bigger than that of Dasuki....Any idea from the forum??

WaffenSS:
One would've given you the benefit of compassionate readership, but ever since OBJ mentioned how you only sing for food, an assertion proved during GEJ when you sang loudly from across the fence until GEJ invited you to feast on yams, one has to question your sincerity and learn to wave off your rants as the buzzing of a fly looking for feces.

Your political strategy of insulting your way into public office unfortunately is now falling on deaf ears.

Very apt.

........

EugeneLeeJnr:

shut up and stop vomiting rubbish from ur mouth

WaffenSS:


The biggest fallacy is believing FFK is fighting for the common man, or the victims of Boko Haram.

A great many of the victims of BH are the very Fulani herdsmen FFK vilifies at every opportunity.

YOU JUST SAID NOTHING. WAS HE RIGHT IN D POINTS HE RAISED? PLS RESPONSE OR REMAIN QUIET

Rubbish and illogical! I'm afraid there is a silent but potent plan by political and economic elites like Fanikayode and Fayose to keep distracting President Buhari on his fight against Boko Haram so that more casualties can be recorded and Buhari portrayed as incompetent. By God's grace, their plan will fail and Nigeria will triumph! I have a feeling the Boko Haram fighters are mainly from neighboring countries which makes it imperative for Nigeria to close its borders for sometime to enable us deal with the situation decisively. Nigerians should rise up and collectively deal with this menace to revive the nation's economy effectively. Meanwhile, the federal government should desist from giving deadlines or making categorical statements on the extent of achieving the target of defeating Boko Haram so as not to give unpatriotic elements such as Fanikayode any room to make further empty noise!

Sentiments apart , we need fearless people like FFK to put this govt on its toes. I like this guy

MCRUEMUS:
YOU JUST SAID NOTHING. WAS HE RIGHT IN D POINTS HE RAISED? PLS RESPONSE OR REMAIN QUIET

Whether he's right or wrong depends on one's state of mind.

Like-minded idiots would consider him right.

The rest of humanity knows he's a pained, perennial arsehole.

Ovialekhe:


well, if sitting his ass down (like you rightly put it)to read a bitter yet true criticism from an opposition to know the true situation of things in this country,and putting things right, then sitting his ass down is worth more than travelling to China.Your house can't be on fire and you go out to visit a friend. immposicant!!!!!!

very convenient for you to say true criticism and then true situation of things. That write up is a compostiton of lies coming from a man who's credibility and integrity is not worth more than toilet paper, even to the regular Joe. Nobody takes femi fani kayode seriously in this country except for pdp criminals and you! A man who would come out and announce to Nigerians the woman and women he slept with, a man who's a Known junkie! My president should please go to China, and not listen to a grown assss man who said só many childish things on AIT, in the name of being a presidential campaign director. Damn!

EUROBOMBER:


Yes, we can say herdsmen because we see them moving around with AK 47s while security agencies look the other way. They gather and attack harmless villages at night finishing them all and then occupy their lands for grazing, go and ask Benue and Plateau people.

And the plateau and benue people killing them and rustling their livestock nko?

Or the plateau people on YouTube attacking Muslims, roasting their flesh and devouring it like ravenous cannibals nko?

Since when do plateau aborigines start keeping cattle?

EUROBOMBER:

If you like start and end your life with Igbos, we don't go about blasting churches, mosques and motor packs, our girls don't go about wearing bombs like bra to kill people. There are no Igbo herdsmen going about eliminating communities at night, raping women and ravaging farmlands.

Igbos are model citizens, right?

What about the igbo armed robbers who kill their victims?

What about the igbo fake drugs peddlers who poison their customers?

What about the igbo fake spare parts vendors who doom their clients to ghastly and fatal accidents?

What about the igbo kidnappers who extort and sometimes kill their victims?

What about the igbo ritualists and occultists who decapitate and dismember innocent victims, ecen little children?

What about the igbo baby factory proprietors who dehumanize young girls and sell off babies?

What about igbo human traffickers who condemn little girls to the worst inhumanity?

What about the igbo drug dealers who poison societies abroad (check the frontpage, one just got condemned to death)

What about the igbo terrorists who sabotage oil pipelines and increase the hardship of fellow citizens?

What about IPOB militants soliciting for guns to murder Nigerians in the name of biafra?

What about the Igbos who burned down a mosque in Anambra?

Oh yes. Igbos are model, civil angels from heaven.

And if you say only some are bad, then you've made my argument.

EUROBOMBER:


Stop being silly Mr man, @youngnoble gave you an uppercut. Adrress the points raised by the writer and leave his person. You and I know that the points raised are valid ones.

As for the murderous blood-drinking fulani herdsmen, was it FFK that listed them as the fourth deadlist terror group in the world? The fulanis have sacked entire communities in the MB, they ravage farms and rape women at will, I am inclined to believe that these demons called fulani herdsmen have probably killed more Nigerians than boko haram.

Many Buhari supporters no longer use their heads but go about shouting "Sai baba" like wild animals, I smh.

There are some people I can get into arguments with, but certainly not mindless, senseless, clannish, bigoted, deluded, demented, confused, foolish, insignificant, vaporous, incoherent, inchoate, disjointed, ireedeemable arseholes like you.

So shush and move on.

*how's that for an uppercut*