FEMI FANI KAYODE: THE MAN IN THE MIRROR AND HIS MOMENT OF TRUTH.

ICHEOKU says everything he accused others of, he is; and everything he condemned, he caused and cuddled. But all along, he was too cowardly to show his true self and was hiding under a mask of pretentiousness, while parading himself as the gold standard of what Nigerians should aspire to be. At last, the gods have outed him and exposed him for Nigerians to see who he truly is, a great pretender who has been hiding under his mask of Zorro to deceive Nigerians into believing that he was a righteous person and on the righteous path. What a moment of truth, the great reveal, as his mask finally fell off.

So, instead of his years of righteous indignations at Buhari and the North, he should have courageously owned up that he was merely seeking their attention and did not actually mean all his pretended outburst and stand on issues effecting Nigeria. If only he had looked in the mirror much earlier, he would have seen the real bogeyman of Nigeria in disarray and spared himself of the troubles of bombarding Nigerians with his avalanche of diatribes. But in his wise one complex, he wants Nigerians to believe that the same "god" who once told him to wage war against the North, the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari have now appeared again to order him to make peace and reconcile with the North and Buhari and also to join the All Peoples Congress. 

Suddenly, it is no longer Almajiri Peoples Congress but a newly minted Noah's ark of All Peoples Congress which every Nigerian, seeking salvation from their political doldrum, must enter for a political rebirth. Could it be that the hour has finally come? Could it be that "thy kingdom has come?" Could it be that Jesus Christ has finally returned on his second coming? What persuaded this about turn by Femi Fani Kayode and forced on him into an allegiance which he previously foreswore will only happen over his dead body? Why did he suddenly disregard his own preconditions and discard all the oath he took never to be on the same breathing space with Buhari? Why did he rejoin the APC or did he just not care about eating his own poop.

He said he had a divine calling to put Nigeria First and you ask yourself what country has he been putting first before the revelation. Was it the country of the disrespected and abused Southern wife and her vagrantly abusive, savagery and uncircumcised North husband? It is very shocking to see what some people are capable of doing and using the name of God to do it, despite the biblical injunction in Exodus 20:7 that "Thou shall not take the name of God in vain." He regularly swore with the name of God each time he lashed out at the North, called them infidels who will perish in the lake of fire. He called them filthy almajiris, who are not educated, poorly educated and blamed them for Nigeria not attaining greatness. 

Femi Fani Kayode effectively helped "divide" Nigeria between North and South with his polarizing, acerbic and incendiary hogwash of rhetorics. He called the North fat and ugly, callous and abusive husband who were lording it over the South weak wife. He charged the atmosphere which is now overheating and which has irreparably pitched Nigerians against one another, particularly the North against the South and vice versa. He represents to the North what Buhari represents to the South, two people who drew a knife on Nigeria's unity and it is bleeding heavily today as a result of their actions. He stirred the tension in Nigeria so much by pillorying the North that they believe that the whole South are waging a war against them.

But suddenly, he had an epiphany and it was revealed to him that he is the chosen and anointed one, sent on a mission to super glue Nigeria back together. A country which he actively preached, practiced and championed its disunity. A Nigeria which he also threatened and supported its disintegration that he palled with secessionists, but now is yearning for its unity. He lambasted the North but is now dinning with them and you wonder if he goes to dinners with them with the proverbial long spoon since he also called them the devil. What exactly does this fella see each time he looks in the mirror that he comes out attacking some Nigerians and Northerners instead of attacking himself as the real problem with Nigeria. How can any person be this convoluted. 

ICHEOKU says what struck Saul on his way to Damascus pales in comparison to the demonic encounter which Femi Fani Kayode had which forced such a sea change in him. Whatever hydra-headed spirit that accosted him and issued him with such a marching order to quickly scurry back to the North and Buhari and beg them for forgiveness must have added an unpalatable alternative such as a quick agonizing death. Things do not just happen and the Femi Fani Kayode's sudden change of heart could not have just happened out of his own free volition. He was either pushed or forced to jump following a hot pursuit by some evil forces which he froze upon sighting and floundered into the deep ravine to his fatal fall.

It is a sad commentary that so many Nigerians, particularly Nigerian politicians, lack conviction of their belief and that they can be so easily swayed by assuaging the yawning of their stomach. Recall that Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida once said, "except for Gani Fawehinmi, every Nigerian has a price." So, how much was the asking and purchase price of Femi Fani Kayode that the North and Buhari paid to finally take him into "slavery?" Did they make him an offer which he could not refuse to induce such a change of mind for him to join the same people he repeatedly derided and castigated as  odious and callous; and who he swore never to have anything to do with as long as he shall live. 

Could it be that they reeled him in to have him in closer proximity to serve him an Abiola tea or Tunde Idiagbo's soft drink; or better still, to later disgracefully throw him out as a repayment for all the insults he leveled against them. ICHEOKU says is just seeking answers to enable us understand what made the lion eat grass; and not that any Nigerian politician is above board. Former Vice President Abubakar Atiku abandoned the party which gave him eight years in office as Vice President and unconfirmed report also has it that former President Jonathan Goodluck is equally planning to abandon the party which made him president. FFK is not the only politician in a country of least trust. 

What will Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho be thinking about the man who lied to them and encouraged their secessionist agitation, assured them of his support all the way? Does FFK not know shame or have no regard for his character; or is he incapable of differentiating between reputation and notoriety? Does it matter to him that millions of people heard him gush about his freedom fighting and civil rights credentials and what the people will be thinking of him now, particularly how he lied to them. Is he this shameless that he does not care nor give a damn about how people perceive him? But should a man who is now on his fifth marriage, who kissed and told on two Igbo ladies, be any longer bothered by "ordinary" reputation damage?

ICHEOKU says what FFK did should not rattle any reasonable person who has been closely watching him because he has always manifested a lack of candor, principles, conviction and trustworthiness. He is the Nigerian Judas Iscariot whose befitting moniker should be "ONCE THE PRICE IS RIGHT". He turns more tricks than professional prostitutes. What he did touches a very sensitive thinking in Nigeria that certain people from a part of Nigeria are hardly trustworthy and that you can only deal with them at your own risk; and if you must, to first verify because they are likely to betray you. 

But for Goodluck Jonathan who rehabilitated him as his 2015 reelection campaign spokesman, when he was in a political wilderness after Bola Tinubu's threw him out of the AC, where would the chameleon be today? But he steadily ran his foul, filthy mouth against Jonathan's government forcing Jonathan to pacify him by bribing him with the position. It is also noteworthy that he failed to deliver and was unable to out-spin and out-speak Buhari's communications team and you wonder if he was similarly compromised then as well. To a large extent, Femi Fani Kayode contributed heavily to the loss which Project reelect Jonathan 2015 suffered. 

But of what political value and utility is he anyway that makes him a worthy catch for any political party when he cannot even win his ward in an election. All he is bringing is his rabidity and loquacity which has turned off so many and will be a deficit for the All Peoples Congress. No Nigeria will cross over to or join the APC or even decide to vote for APC because FFK joined the party. A man has never achieved anything meaningful in life and who but for his recognizable last surname, would not have been appointed by Olusegun Obasanjo as a minister, has nothing to contribute to the APC. Why the red carpet reception in Aso Rock as if he is a doyen of Nigerian politics.  

If only Bola Tinubu was not sick and smitten in London, battling debilitating arthritis of the lower extremities and other undisclosed diseases, he would have resisted the crossover of this vagabond back into the APC. The party knows that Tinubu does not like FFK and hates his penchant for treachery,  and would not have signed off on his rehabilitation back in the party, the reason they decided to act while the Jagaban is still indisposed. It is possible too that his readmission to the party is a part of the grand design to frustrate Jagaban's planned 2023 push for Aso Rock. 

FFK only reaffirmed that the only standard required of a Nigerian politician is to have no standard at all. That is why Nigeria is stalled politically since 1999 as the same people are just recycling themselves and repeatedly doing the same thing and excepting things to change which meets the definition of madness. The only way democracy can indeed grow and begin to mature  in Nigeria is for the two main political parties to outlaw this incessant criss crossing of politicians between parties, depending on who is in Aso Rock. Nigerian politicians are not ideologically forged, they are any party in power politicians, who are driven solely by where their bread will be buttered most. 

Therefore, the news that the loquacious fella went back to his vomit is not actually news worthy as it is normal in Nigeria politics. They ply the same trade and can go to any length to justify their action. Just listen to FFK that he spoke against Buhari from the outside and now knows him better from the inside. When did the "inside" knowledge begin exactly, since FFK did not just fall down from the skies of Nigeria last week but has been very much around since December 31st 1983 when Buhari first happened on the Nigerian stage. So after 38 years of knowing Buhari from the "outside", his few hours of meeting Buahri at Aso Rock changed everything and imputed to him special knowledge from the "inside", which supplanted everything he previously knew about Buhari.

Femi Fani Kayode once said of Buhari, "when Buhari was in power he locked people up, he crated people, he killed people with retroactive legislation, he carried people on the streets of London illegally, turned Nigeria into a pariah nation; a man that looted PTF." 

When he made the statement he knew Buhari from the outside and possibly defamed Buhari then. But he has now slept with Buhari, seen his naked body and now knows that all he previously said or knew about Buhari were tissues of lies and made up stories; and that Buhari is innocent of all the charges which FFK leveled against him. Did he even apologize to Buhari for "wrongly" defaming him or did he capitalize on Buhari's Joe Biden situation, believing that he is hovering on the borders of senility to recall all the vituperations and invectives which he poured in full measure on Buhari, his fellow Northerners and their Fulani terrorists herdsmen. 

After visiting Buhari in Aso Rock, it was FFK conclusion that Buhari's tyrannical rule of 1983 to 1985 did not happen simply because FFK knew Buhari then from the outside. Now he can attest to Buhari's saintliness and angelic nature because he slept with him and saw his inside. He also only knew the APC from the outside when he called them Almajiris Peoples Congress just a few months ago, but now that he knows them from the inside, they have magically metamorphosed into All Peoples Congress. It is also instructive that everything happened with a lightening speed such that FFK must be one heck of mind reader to in fact have such a wonderful understanding from being inside. 

A political liability who is as unstable as mercury and who blows in the wind like a willow. Since he swore to rather die than join the dark, filthy and rats infested sinking ship APC, may be Nigerians should now get ready for his funeral. Since he swore to oppose the APC for the rest of his natural life and that he will never join the APC no matter what, it is time to prepare for his end of life. Since he swore the APC is nothing but darkness and that he stood for the light and that there can never be fellowship between light and dark, it is time to appreciate that FFK has been dark all along, only that he mistook his light complexion for light. He is a lesson in paradox who deserves pity than condemnation because he does not know what he does; his center of equilibrium has shifted. #JudasOfOduduwa.