Opinion:

Femi Fani-Kayode, (more popularly known as FFK by the initials of his name) the designer wearing son of Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode, (Fanny power) Deputy Premier of the Western region in the first republic is the perfect example of a pig still being a pig even with a lipstick on.

Yes, he is on record to have attended the high-brow English public school Harrow and followed that up with a law degree from the prestigious University of London and a masters from the world famous Cambridge University.

But if the idea was to mould him in character and training in the best traditions of an English gentleman having attended these institutions of British upper crust society, it has proven to be a waste of expensive English public school education.


His bohemian lifestyle while in the United Kingdom included an addiction to drugs for which he had to seek spiritual and physical rehabilitation in Ghana. But till today he has not been totally cured of that habit which leads him to fits of boorishness, irascibility and thuggish behaviour unbecoming of the status he occupies in Nigerian public life.

Though he likes all too often to take pride in and show off his English public education as a badge of honour, unfortunately FFK does not live up to the genteel and hallowed requirement of an Oxbridger in all he does. In the public space which he courts and hugs for recognition and relevance he is always expected to exhibit his base, yobbish, uncouth manners of an alley cat at persons who are his betters in all parameters of life.

Last week, FFK was at his yobbish worst during a press briefing in Calabar where in response to a question from a Daily Trust reporter Eyo Charles as to who was financing the trips he (FFK) had been embarking on round the country, he let rip at the poor reporter. Suddenly FFK who takes it as licence to hurl volleys of invectives at just about anyone in Nigerian public life had his thin skin exposed. Like a boxer with a glassy jaw, which the gentlest of jabs was all that was needed to shatter his thinly covered veneer of respectability was ruthlessly exposed.

In those few minutes of foul mouthed rant at the reporter for asking the question, FFK sunk lower than the lowliest he had ever been in the public estimation of him. He never had any reputation of worth anyways. But it exposed him as a brittle minded fellow who can give but cannot take and confirmed that he is just a windbag and a self-servicer, worse than the people he all too often vilifies mostly without rhyme or reason.

With his latest oafish behaviour, it is about time FFK met his comeuppance. His verbal assault at the reporter should be seen as an attack at the very profession that provides him with the necessary oxygen and limelight to remain relevant in the Nigerian public space. If he did to a lawyer in the legal profession he belongs what he did to the journalist in Calabar he would have faced immediate sanctions. (Ask Governor El Rufai)

Suffice it to say he is not even reckoned with in the legal profession. Even the so-called “charge and bail’’ lawyers one sees often hanging around courtrooms are likely to have better records of achievement in the profession than him.

He is also not a political figure of note in his native Ile-Ife or Osun State even though he tries to present himself as one. He certainly will not win any political contest there. And in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of which he is a member, he is avoided like the plague for his impulsive, self-opinionated, gaffe-prone statements which often put the party in bad light, and which necessitate painstaking damage control measures to mend.

The lout has neither a sense of shame nor gratitude. In 1966 General Yakubu Gowon then as Army Chief saved his father from imminent death by mutinous soldiers when he ordered then Lt Paul Tarfa of the Guards Brigade to rescue and keep him under protective custody of loyal troops. Had General Gowon not intervened the senior Kayode would have almost certainly been dispatched to meet his maker on that occasion by the mutineers. FFK was a toddler then, and only God knows what would have become of him in later life. Yet even General Gowon had not been spared of this loony’s ingrained bad manners. He once issued a scathing, abusive retort to a statement the former military head of state made on the civil war.

That FFK has been indulged in the public space despite all the known and documented instances of his indecorous behaviours is attributable to two factors; he is the scion of an illustrious public figure in Nigeria who literarily was born and fed with a silver spoon, and also because of the fawning, uncritical indulgence of our media which tends to accord undue relevance to persons who went to the type of schools FFK attended abroad.

FFK is fannying around in his family’s shadow and in the inferiority complex of our media who believe that Nigerians who attended Ivy League institutions in America and Oxbridge in the United Kingdom possess uncommon wisdom. It is what makes otherwise vacuous and spastic individuals of his ilk to bask in the public space with a dubious sense of entitlement, advertising their self-importance in the full knowledge that the Nigerian media will indulge them uncritically.

In the aftermath of his intemperate and disgraceful outburst in Calabar, having temporarily returned to his senses and realised that he had gone beyond even the unduly generous allowance the media has given him, he attempted to climb down from his high horse. But it was done in a derisory manner which further reinforces the utter contempt FFK holds journalists and the journalism profession which ironically is the only profession that provides him with a platform to be relevant in Nigeria.

If the journalism profession in Nigeria has any modicum of honour at all it must put this designer wearing, drug addled thug in his place as an example to all who dare to treat it with levity.

https://dailytrust.com/ffk-the-drug-addled-thug-in-designer-wears

The devil wears prada.

I love how dailytrust and other media houses are standing tall to defend the poor journalist

FFK is a product of the igbos

Femi fani kayode is an hypocrite who speak with both sides of his mouth

Well written and aptly captured.

He's a typical unethical and biased addled thug and also a Yoruba man. Now, Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He's a smart boy" – General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd)

I still stand with FFK, that question was a very stupid one from that reporter...

- Who is sponsoring the trips of mamman daura?
- Who was sponsoring the trips of late isa funtua?

They are and were all in the political scene without holding political positions.

Daaaaaaaaaamn!!!

Now this is a low blow.

His adopted brothers from yeast will soon return from church to defend him in numbers now

Esseite:
I still stand with FFK, that question was a very stupid one from that reporter...

Who is sponsoring the trips of mamman daura?
Who was sponsoring the trips of late isa funtua?

They are and were all in there political scene without holding political positions.

Keep quite. You are known for standing with silly attitudes. Ass licker. Even when Ffk has regretted and apologies for his outburst. You are still here standing alone

OPPPS:

Keep quite. You are known for standing with silly attitudes. Ass licker. Even when Ffk has regretted and apologies for his outburst. You are still here standing alone

Shut it... he only did that on the insult, but still maintains the reporter was stupid to ask such silly questions.

Is there any better asslicker than your kind? Learn to differentiate standing for truth and asslicking.

Esseite:
I still stand with FFK, that question was a very stupid one from that reporter...

- Who is sponsoring the trips of mamman daura?
- Who was sponsoring the trips of late isa funtua?

They are and were all in the political scene without holding political positions.

I don't get you.

You are standing by FFK not because the question is wrong or bad but because of those others you mentioned?

This APC OP no get work, So upon all the issue we have in Nigeria like

Killing of innocent people in katsina by bandit

Ongoing genocide in southern kaduna

Killing of innocent Igbo guys in enugu by police and Dsss

You still dey Carry FFK matter put for head like gala.

Same media which has giving Kayode unnecessary attention will be blamed for Kayode's pompousness.

The media made him feel too important.

Globad:


I don't get you.

You are standing by FFK not because the question is wrong or bad but because of those others you mentioned?

Am saying he has freedom of movement and if no one accuses him of looting their monies for trips, what is the reporters business to ask such a demeaning question..

I had to put daura and funtua in that context because, we know of their political dealings and travels despite not holding political positions to warrant such questions..

Esseite:
I still stand with FFK, that question was a very stupid one from that reporter...

- Who is sponsoring the trips of mamman daura?
- Who was sponsoring the trips of late isa funtua?

They are and were all in the political scene without holding political positions.

obviously you have a very poor IQ

It's Okay , he has apologised so let's move on

Esseite:


Am saying he has freedom of movement and if no one accuses him of looting their monies for trips, what is the reporters business to ask such a demeaning question..

I had to put daura and funtua in that context because, we know of their political dealings and travels despite not holding political positions to warrant such questions..

How much is an interstate plane ticket - N70,000.

The journalist didn't question his freedom of movement, so that doesn't arise.

The question is relevant when any private person spends money, more than what is reasonable, especially when it's obviously politically coloured.

The question should not only be posed to him but to all others who indulge in such. It's not an unfair question and he should have answered it.

So you think only transport of N70k is involved? Across states?

It's okay.

But if the idea was to mould him in character and training in the best traditions of an English gentleman having attended these institutions of British upper crust society, it has proven to be a waste of expensive English public school education.

The money ve been well spent
The attributes of an English gentle man are slavery, looting and genocide

Lugard was an English gentleman
Thanks to God Fkk did not make the grade

Esseite:
I still stand with FFK, that question was a very stupid one from that reporter...

- Who is sponsoring the trips of mamman daura?
- Who was sponsoring the trips of late isa funtua?

They are and were all in the political scene without holding political positions.

Typical zombie

this is brutal knockout for the poor tourist

Esseite:


Shut it... he only did that on the insult, but still maintains the reporter was stupid to ask such silly questions.

Is there any better asslicker than your kind? Learn to differentiate standing for truth and asslicking.

Typical asslicker. Even FFK has apologised. But zombie like una must lick his ass.
Use your sense for once

Enemies of Buhari has gone into hiding after their chairman FFK misfire , suddenly nobody is analyzing the stupidity of FFK , PDP is silent ipob silent. Ndiara....... Simple question a former Minister can not answer. Just imagine people learning model as FFK. God forbid

OPPPS:

Typical asslicker. Even FFK has apologised. But zombie like una must lick his ass.
Use your sense for once

Your partisan self is only clutching on what to hold against FFK, it's still not the reporters business how a private citizen bankrolls his travels.

Nairobi33:

Typical zombie

Empty dunderheads, a simple logical counter would have sufficed rather than baby gifs.

The guy can't even win any political position under any party in his native home town Ile-Ife. A political nobody.

Globad:


The journalist didn't question his freedom of movement, so that doesn't arise.

The question is relevant when any private person spends money, more than what is reasonable, especially when it's obviously politically coloured.

The question should not only be posed to him but to all others who indulge in such. It's not an unfair question and he should have answered it.

So you think only transport of N70k is involved? Across states?

It's okay.

I expected more really... how do you question a private citizen on his personal travels? While tagging it politically coloured..how do you determine reasonable travel expense for a private citizen?

Your caliber of friends are different from his.

A

Esseite:


Your partisan self is only clutching on what to hold against FFK, it's still not the reporters business how a private citizen bankrolls his travels.

You are not any better than Fani Kayode. And if you are Fani Kayode- fvck off and respect yourself.
Why should he be touring states in the first instance? As what and in what capacity? Is he Buhari? Is he the NGF or PGF chair? Is he employed by an NGO? When he was minister, what did he do for the states he is touring? What good is he known for in his community, LG or state?
And the arrogant lad has guts to tour states on assessment to pilfering states resources from govs. This is a man that has corrupt and criminal records begging for prosecution to clean up the filth in Nigeria. I don't want to talk to you again but get sense- it will do you alot good.

Anyiamaka:



You are not any better than Fani Kayode. And if you are Fani Kayode- fvck off and respect yourself.
Why should he be touring states in the first instance? As what and in what capacity? Is he Buhari? Is he the NGF or PGF chair? Is he employed by an NGO? When he was minister, what did he do for the states he is touring? What good is he known for in his community, LG or state?
And the arrogant lad has guys to yours states on assessment tour to pilfering states resources. This is a man that has corrupt and criminal records begging for prosecution to clean up the filth in Nigeria. I don't want to talk to you again but get sense- it will do you alot good.

At the bolded, do you people reason at all before commenting... so he can't travel anymore until he is Buhari, PGF, NGF or associated to an NGO?...

There is obviously something you have against FFK, this is definitely beyond his travels..