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Femi Fani-Kayode popularly known as (FFK) a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has knocked his former principal and President of the country, Olusegun Obasanjo over what he described as humiliation of monarchs in Oyo State.
Recall that Obasanjo had in a viral video berated traditional rulers for not acknowledging his presence and govenor Seyi Makinde by standing up for them at a public event in Iseyin, Oyo State, on Friday.
The former president was sighted asking the Obas to stand up and later ordered them to sit down.
The development has triggered reactions from Yoruba stakeholders, who described Obasanjo’s action as disrespect to the traditional rulers.
Reacting, Fani-Kayode in a statement issued on his official X handle, said he was “deeply saddened and utterly mortified”, by Obasanjo’s action.
The former Aviation Minister said the action of the former president was beyond jokes, stressing that Obasanjo has spat on the faces of all Yoruba indigene.
His statement reads partly: “I am deeply saddened and utterly mortified by the way in which former President Olusegun Obasanjo lambasted our revered traditional rulers in Oyo state and ‘ordered’ them to ‘stand up’ and ‘sit down’ as if they were children.
“This is the same OBJ that, once upon a time, displayed his respect, humility and I daresay greatness by bowing, kneeling and prostrating before our monarchs, even when he was President, yet today he talks to them as if they are his garbage collectors and orders them to jump up and down like a molue driver talking to his beleaguered passengers and a motor park tout talking to a bunch of jobless and worthless underlings.
“Many think that the whole thing is some kind of joke but I do not. We must not take it lightly and the truth is that by doing what he did he has spat on all our faces.”
The Obasanjo/ Oba incident happened at the commissioning of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH’s College of Agricultural Science and Renewable Natural Resources, Iseyin, on Friday.