Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has blasted a reporter who questioned his motivation for joining the ruling All Progressives Congress, which he had sworn he would never join.
It all started when Seun Okinbaloye, the host of a Channels Television show, asked if his defection to the APC was due to financial reasons.
Femi Fani-Kayode was asked to explain why he joined the APC after trolling and bashing the party for years, even claiming that the only way he could join the party was to die, during a live interview on Channels Television.
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The question, however, enraged and humiliated FFK, who quickly snapped back at the reporter.
He said, “I don’t expect that kind of ridiculous and absurd question from you. I have never ever lacked in finances. There have been no inducements. Politicians don’t move because of finances. If I wanted finace, I would have moved a lot sooner than today. I have struggled and I have fought over the last six years than any of the little monkeys that said what you just said to me now.
I stand proud and I stand tall. The kind of family I come from, the kind of background I have, finance is never an issue, but of course this is always the absurd narrative that people with a very small brain, with low intelligence quotient will always put out when they feel threatened and I don’t care. You can insult me from morning till night. It means nothing to me. What is important to me is my God and the fact that I am doing the right thing at the right time.
I am considerably more wealthy than most people think and I don’t need anything from anybody. I work hard, I have always worked hard and I never lacked anything good. When I was fighting the government, you didn’t talk about finances or no finances. Now that I am not fighting the government you are talking about finances or no finances. It’s an old narrative. It’s an old story particularly form Nigerians from a particular segment of society like to say about those of us that are in the elite and I am not prepared to such rubbish and I am surprised you can ask me that kind of question.
Why don’t you go and ask a number of others that same question when they defect. It’s a very insulting question and no basis to it whatsoever.”