Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has lambasted Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, stressing that he has gone astray as a Christian while urging him to seek a secret audience with Prophet TB Joshua or other great men of God to retrace his step.
“Ask for a secret audience with either Bishop David Oyedepo, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Prophet T.B. Joshua, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Apostle Suleman, Bishop Danson, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, Bishop B.O. Ezekiel or any of the other great men of God in our nation who will undoubtedly have the courage and the conviction to tell you what the Lord is saying and the bitter truth.” Says the former aviation minister.
Fani-Kayode made the remarks in an open letter he addressed to Osinbajo as a reaction to a statement credited to the Acting President, in which he described those demanding for the restructuring of Nigeria as people who wanted appointments.
His letter partly reads “Are you not provoking the Living God? Did the respected General Overseer of your Church, the Redeemed Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adegboye (a profoundly good man who is undoubtedly one of God’s end-time generals) not teach you that a heavy price will be paid by those who join forces with the Amalekites to hurt, wound, crush and destroy the children of light and the sons and daughters of promise?
“What is your fear and what is the source of your cowardice? Can light overcome darkness? Did David not survive the wilderness? Did he not survive the brutal onslaught of Saul, the rebellion of his own son Absalom and the vicious attacks of the Philistines?
“Did he not defeat and destroy Goliath and redeem the honor of the children of Israel and the Living God? Is that God dead to you now?
“Whose report do you believe? Do you believe the report of the Lord or the report of man?
He who created the eyes and the ears, can He no longer see and hear? Is the arm of the Lord too short to defend and deliver?
“Is there anything too big or too difficult for our GOD? Is He that created the universe and who chose to make the earth His footstool so weak that He cannot honor His word and deliver His people?
“The truth is that if you fail to do the right thing and you turn your back on Him and His purpose, He will spew you out and find another that will effect His purpose and will in our country. We are not in by our hands but in His.
“Mordecai told Esther this over three thousand years ago and I am telling you the same thing today.
“If you need to be reminded about the veracity and efficacy of the Holy scriptures when it comes to the truisms and structures of leadership and governance and you are reluctant to hear them from your spiritual father because you are ashamed of the fact that you have gone astray then please do the following.
“Ask for a secret audience with either Bishop David Oyedepo, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, Prophet T.B. Joshua, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Apostle Suleman, Bishop Danson, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, Bishop B.O. Ezekiel or any of the other great men of God in our nation who will undoubtedly have the courage and the conviction to tell you what the Lord is saying and the bitter truth.
“You need help and you need it fast. The politicians cannot help you now and neither can your new-found friends on the corridors of power you’re beleaguered, divided and dying party the APC. Only the Living God can help you.
“It is so bad that you did and said nothing when your fellow Redeemed Pastor (who happened to be a woman) was slaughtered right under your nose in Abuja recently. You did not even attend her burial.
“Instead of doing the right thing and soothing frayed nerves you are encouraging division in our nation and you are consolidating and perpetuating a ruthless and heartless quasi-apartheid system of government which has no basis in decency, rationality, justice or fairness.
“It is a cruel and barbaric system which sees a few as the master race and the rest as slaves. Given all this how can you possibly live with yourself and how can you hold your head up high?
“You join common slaves and ride on horseback whilst you condemn and confine the princes of the realm and the sons and daughters of the highest God to walk around barefooted.
“This is not only sacrilege but it is indeed a great evil under the sun. May God forgive you and may He deliver you before it is too late.
“All those that said that we should have faith in the APC and the Acting President should carefully meditate on and consider his words and categorisation of those who believe in restructuring and self-determination.
“He says that they are just looking for an appointment. Permit me to ask the following questions.
“Is it the leaders of the south, Afenifere, Ohaeneze and the Niger Delta that are looking for appointments? Or is it the leaders of the Middle Belt?
“Is it Baba Fasoranti, Baba Ayo Adebanjo, General Alani Akinrinade, Chief Amos Akingba, Bishop Gbonigi, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi or Chief Olu Falae?
“Is it Chief John Nwodo, Governor Victor Ezeife or Chief Arthur Nwankwo? Is it Chief E.K. Clark, Chief Solomon Asemota SAN or Chief Albert Horsefall?
“Is it General TY Danjuma, General Dogonyaro or General Zamani Lekwot? Is it Atiku Abubakar who was the Vice President that you are today 18 years ago?
“Is it the respected Baba Bisi Akande who has been calling for us to go back to the 1963 regional structure and form of government? Is it General Ibrahim Babangida who was Head of State 32 years ago?
“What appointment can you or Buhari possibly offer any of them at their age and with their wealth of knowledge and experience? Why should you measure these distinguished and respected people, most of whom are old enough to he your father, by your own sordid standards?
“The other day you stood at a public function and clapped heartily when our father and leader President Olusegun Obasanjo said that the way to stop the Biafran agitation was to offer the Igbo people a slice of cake?
“Does that make sense to you? Is this whole thing about cake and appointments as far as people like you are concerned?
“Why do you seen to take pleasure in denigrating those that do not believe in a nation that has all the powers of government concentrated at the center and that has dashed the hopes and dreams of millions?
“Nigeria was meant to be a federation and not a unitary state with a federal facade! Have you forgotten that today simply because you are Vice President to Buhari?
“Does Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the man that brought you into politics and that single-handedly made you Vice President, agree with you on this? Does he also believe that everyone that believes in restructuring is just looking for an appointment?
“If so that would be very curious because he once believed in it and we used to discuss it extensively when we were closer. I am sure that at some point he would have lectured you on its merits and rudiments.
“Honestly, you have lost it completely. You have betrayed your people and jettisoned their cause. You have ignored their call for justice and equity and you have turned a deaf ear to their cry for deliverance.
“Some will call you a shameless coward but I will not go that far out of respect for your office. I am however constrained to say that I have lost the great respect that I once had for you.
“Like the biblical Demas, you have turned your back on your primary calling and you have gone the other way.
“You have been seduced and overwhelmed by a Demastic anointing. You have fallen in love with the awesome power of governance at the Villa and all the worldly things.
“In short, you are a self-serving modern-day Afonja who will eventually be consumed by those who he has joined forces with to destroy his own people and the children of the Living God. Thus sayest the Lord.
“My regards to your family Your Excellency and kindly convey my warmest greetings and special felicitations to your brother “Jebi” who I am very fond of and was very friendly with whilst at London University in the early 1980’s. Shalom.