Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said he believed that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s father might be an Igbo man.
Fani-Kayode stated that his ex-boss ‘silence’ over a recent comment by Igbo businessman, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, that Yoruba people are “political rascals” instigated the belief.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain wrote on his Twitter handle: “The fact that our revered leader and one of the fathers of our nation, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, can sit there and say nothing when Emmanuel Iwanyanwu, who I have always respected, describes the entire Yoruba race as “rascals” that the Igbo “will DEAL with” tells me that the rumour that he is NOT a fully-fledged Yoruba man and that his father was an Igbo may well be true.
“Whatever the case, this is not the OBJ I once knew, loved, defended and worked so hard for. Something has gone wrong. No one could have made a statement against ANY tribe in the presence of the old OBJ that we all knew and respected and got away with it.”
Fani-Kayode was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to Obasanjo between 2003 and 2006 before his appointment as the Minister of Culture and Tourism and later as the Minister of Aviation in the same administration.
