The expected defection of a former PDP chieftain, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, to the All Progressives Congress (APC), has become the talk of the town for a variety of reasons.
While some think it's a good riddance for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), others however, wonder why the former Aviation Minister would be shameless enough to return to a party he once said he hated with passion, and would rather die than be a part of.
But, while reactions continue to follow Kayode's defection, his poor choice of words and uncontrolled (questionable) rage during criticism of the Buhari administration in the past, is sure to haunt him, and or cause a bit of disaffection from within the presidency.
Late in 2019, Fani Kayode called minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, a 'goat' and also described Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, as a 'village idiot'.
Kayode's vituperation, came in response to the duo's rebuttal of the United States' decision to include Nigeria on its Special Watch List (SWL) of countries that have engaged in or tolerated “severe violations of religious freedom",
Lai Mohammed in his official reaction, said, "The United States have been misled by propaganda" and that the Americans were "sowing seeds of religious mistrust in Nigeria".
Adesina on his own part, said, “In international relations, you respect the internal affairs of other countries. The U.S. itself has enough to chew solving its own problems not to talk of poke-nosing into that of another country.”
“No man, no country, nobody has appointed them the policeman of the world, let them face their own issues.”
But reacting to Buhari's arrogance, Fani Kayode particularly took aim at Lai Mohammed by calling him a 'goat that once bleated to the nation that he had "never told a lie before" in his entire life'.
He said, "If there was ever a misplaced, misguided, inelegant, impolite, inappropriate, unacceptable and wholly irresponsible response to a very serious issue from a senior Government official this is it. And in his characteristic manner Lai Mohammed has once again outdone himself with his dirty and habitual lies.
"This is the same repugnant and ugly little creature that told us in 2014 that banning Boko Haram and labelling them terrorists was "unfair and unjust". It is the same goat that once bleated to the nation that he had "never told a lie before" in his entire life.
"Yet the truth is that Lai Mohammed is a pathological liar and a very sick man. Like satan, "he was a liar, the father of lies and a murderer from the start". Lying comes natuarlly to him because that is his nature, that is his name and that is what he came to the world to do.
"He and his master Buhari compliment each other very well. Both are heartless, deceptive, deceitful, callous, dangerous, mendacious, insensitive, self-serving and, worse of all, they have no fear of God.
"It is trite to say that not only are the Americans right about the vicious and murderous persecution that Christians are faced with in parts of Nigeria but they are also right about their fears for Christians and religious persecution in our country. We as Nigerian Christians welcome their concern and I am glad to see that CAN has said so publicly.
"Yet it doesn't stop there and Lai is not alone in his brazen display of falsehood and perfidy. Others in the Federal Government have made as much of a fool of themselves on this matter as he has done.
"For example on his own part, the village idiot of Aso Rock, Mr. Femi Adesina, the Special Advisor to President Buhari on Media and Publicity said,
"'The United States itself has enough to chew solving its own problems not to talk of poke-nosing into that of another country. No man, no country, nobody has appointed them the Policeman of the world, let them face their own issues'".
"Strong and predictable words yet why would anyone be surprised about such an obnoxious, shallow, specious and pernicious contribution from this certified dullard. After all this is the same man that said that we should either give up our land to the Fulani herdsmen or give up our lives.
"He also said that Nigeria would have been a better place by now if Buhari's military regime had remained in power in 1985. This was a regime that abducted, injected and crated its critics and opponents, like Umaru Dikko, on the streets of London, locked up many people indefinately in detention, passed legislation to jail people for criticising the Head of State and the Government even where the allegations were true, clamped down on the media by jailing journalists and executed people by applying the death penalty retroactively.
"It matters not to him that thousands of Christians have been targetted and butchered all over the north over the last four years even though he claims to be a Christian himself.
"On Christmas eve and Christmas day in 2016 alone no less than 800 defenceless Christians, including women and children, were slaughtered in their homes by Fulani herdsmen yet the Federal Government which Femi serves did not arrest or prosecute any of the perpetrators and terrorists but instead turned a blind eye to their inhuman and barbaric behaviour. And this has been the pattern since 2015!
"One year ago, before the entire world, when Femi's boss crawled and lobbied his way to the White House and President Donald Trump gave him a public warning before the entire world at a press conference at the White House to "stop the attacks on Christians", Femi Adesina and Buhari did not say that America is not the world's policeman but instead smiled sheepishly, stood at attention, saluted with gusto and offered a very timid "yes sir, thank you sir!".
"Today it is a different story simply because they believe that they have sufficiently cowed the Nigerian people into accepting anything including the most barbarous atrocities.
"What an unfolding tragedy this is and whether Femi and his boss like it or not the truth is slowly coming out. Only God knows where it will all end."
It is said that in politics, there's no permanent enemies but permanent interest. So, with Kayode now in the ship he once said was sinking and beyond redemption, all those he had offended in the past, might have enough room to forgive and forget.