By The Director of the New Media Subcommittee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Femi Fani-Kayode has fired back at the comments of the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones regarding his recent divisive comments.
Llewellyn-Jones had berated Fani-Kayode for using “derogatory” language.
“There were some people, like Femi Fani-Kayode, what is he saying and why is he saying it? I don’t understand. It is wrong from my perspective that he will speak on behalf of a party and that party does not distance itself from him and say stop doing that. It is wrong to say that,” the British envoy said in an interview on Sunday.
Reacting to the remark, Fani-Kayode took to his Twitter page on Monday to slam the diplomat, telling him stop commenting on Nigerian politics.
The former aviation minister wrote, “These are my personal views and I am constrained to express them given the fact that one @benllewellynjo1, a misguided, mischievous and clearly unlettered Englander who does not know his place, threw away all caution and mentioned my name in his inglorious commentary.
“I would advise this Ben, who I am told is the Deputy High Commissioner of the UK to Nigeria, to keep his dirty nose out of our internal affairs.
“Nigeria stopped being a British colony 63 years ago and we need no lessons from him on how to run our affairs or conduct our politics.”
He further accused Llewellyn-Jones of being bitter because “his preferred candidate” didn’t win at the 2023 presidential elections.
In another series of tweets, Fani-Kayode defended his comments about Lagos belonging to the Yoruba people.
He added, “Well let me say clearly and categorically that I have no apology for saying this and I stand by every word I said.
Those that want to impose an ING on our nation and follow it up with a civil war in an attempt to dismember and destroy her shall not prevail.
“Nigeria shall remain united, shall be at peace, shall flourish, shall we excel and democracy shall be alive and well in our nation for many years to come.”
