By Femi Fani-Kayode

My maternal grandfather was a great and powerful Muslim cleric and scholar by the name of Sheik Nurudeen Sa’ Id. He was from Ilesha. He was also a civil servant and he spent a good deal of his adult life in Lagos. His father, that is my maternal great-grandfather, was a pure Yoruba man from Ilesha. However his mother, that is my maternal great-grandmother, was a pure Fulani woman from Sokoto.

My grandfather, Sheik Nurudeen Sa’ I’d, who was half Fulani and half Yoruba, got married to my grandmother, Alhaja Abeke Sa’ id (nee Williams) who was a pure Yoruba woman. She was also known as ”Mama Ofin”. She was from Lagos (Isale Eko) and she was the daughter of Alhaji Isa Williams who was a key leader in the Muslim community and the richest businessman and trader in the whole of Lagos in his day.

Sheik Nurudeen Sa’id and Alhaja Abeke Sa’id had three children and the youngest of those three was my dear mother, Mrs. Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode (nee Sa’id). She was born into a Muslim family and she practised Islam all her life until she met my father, converted to Christianity and then they got married.

It is clear from the foregoing that my mother had one quarter Fulani blood in her and I have one eight Fulani blood in me. Out of respect to the Muslim side of my family, that is the Sa’ id’s and the Williams’, all of my father’s children have Muslim names as well as Christian ones. Mine is Abdulateef. Amazing isn’t it? When some say that I am anti-Islam and anti-Hausa-Fulani I just laugh. They know little about me, my heritage, my bloodlines (which, unlike most, I take very seriously), my background or my thought processes.

I am a proud son of Nigeria- a son of the soil-and I have deep ancestral and spiritual roots in at least two of the three great Abrahamic faiths even though I and my immediate family are practicing Pentecostal Christians. I have Ife, Ijesha, Egba, Isale Eko and Fulani blood running through my veins. This is my heritage and I am very proud of each and every one of those blood lines. The fact that I can trace my lineage and my blood lines to Ife, Ilesha, Abeokuta, Lagos and Sokoto emboldens, enriches and strengthens me. The fact that some members of my family are Christians and others are Muslims excites and ennobles me.

I am a true Nigerian and regardless of our numerous challenges in this country I will love and live in Nigeria till the day I die. Copied.

*This piece by Femi Fani Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, who has just joined the All Progressives Congress, was published by Premium Times

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Source: The NewsNigeria

This is how someone acts when alert enters his account.

Hmmm, nigeria politician, business as usual

Will keep quiet? Didirin

malcom1X:
This is how someone acts when alert enters his account.

Dis FFK man should be a comedian I swear

Useless entity. Anything to tickle the ears of the lanky demon vessel(LDV) in aso rock.

this guy is a disgrace
worse than igbokwe

Hahahahahaha

what money cannot do does not exist

Our Yoruba version of Joe Igbokwe

The southern leaders are a disgrace to the region, which northerner will say he's partly Yoruba or Igbo because of a peanut cake they will give him

Shebi he don chop food belleful? E remain to dey sing like canary!

How about another story on how you sold your dignity for a plate of goat stew?

Thank you so much for the history lesson. It was somewhat interesting.

Should they bring another plate for you??

Given enough inducements, this useless fart will join Boko Haram.

Our food prefect has spoken.

You only got this type of revelation when you are highly and handsomely bankrolled and given a mouth watering foods and one good looking Inyarinya

Like father like son.

He is not different from his father.

Alert just landing in ffk akant,the reason for his misyarn.

Food fully demolished.

At the sight of cassava, a goat will do anything

I swear down ffk na craze,just imagine how mad man dey trace useless family line wey no dey....d guy even calculate percentage of fulani blood.

When we told ipob miscreants this man is an unstable fool,they called us names n one even said ffk is the most reasonable fellow he has ever seen....the joke is on whoever takes this clown serious


1/8th of fulani blood

Wetin ipob no go see for ffk hand

I'm sure this statement came before he was invited to one of the numerous dinners he's enjoying these days since joining APC. This man no send shame o

malcom1X:
This is how someone acts when alert enters his account.

malcom1X:
This is how someone acts when alert enters his account.

But it's never been a hidden fact that he has Fulani ancestors na?

Unik3030:
I swear down ffk na craze,just imagine how mad man dey trace useless family line wey no dey....d guy even calculate percentage of fulani blood.

When we told ipob miscreants this man is an unstable fool,they called us names n one even said ffk is the most reasonable fellow he has ever seen....the joke is on whoever takes this clown serious


1/8th of fulani blood

Wetin ipob no go see for ffk hand

Lol, even though FFK is clearly a mentally unstable and unprincipled scallywag, he's never hidden his Fulani ancestry. He's talked about it numerous times.

This is what they call "Taking y'all down the memory lane or My antecedents by FFK". This niggar is a rich fuqing low life. Talk of shiit, they are full of shiit, hence reeks of shiit. Deng

Even Adams Osho had his Fulani lineage history...wait till they Bleep U up

This man has no political relevance except to be used as an attack dog. He constantly suffers from diarrhoea of the mouth.

I expected this but it's too early

I will save this for years to come.....I know he will later deny everything he just said.

Who says Politics has no synonym with comedy, FFK is a comedian inside political industry

My good friend and brother...

Foolish somebody.