Femi Fani-Kayode, a senior member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has attacked Olusegun Obasanjo for what he claims was the humiliation of the monarchs in Oyo State.
An online video purports to show Obasanjo berating traditional leaders for failing to stand up for him at a public event in Iseyin, Oyo State, on Friday.
It was seen that the former president asked the Obas to support him by standing up before ordering them to sit down.
Yoruba stakeholders responded to the situation by labelling Obasanjo‘s move as showing disrespect to the traditional leaders.
Fani-Kayode responded by saying that Obasanjo’s behaviour left him “deeply saddened and utterly mortified” in a message posted on his official X handle.
The former aviation minister emphasised that Obasanjo had spit in the faces of all Yoruba natives and that his behaviour was beyond absurd.
The statement says, in part, “I am very disturbed and completely ashamed by the way in which former President Olusegun Obasanjo attacked our renowned traditional rulers in Oyo state and ‘ordered’ them to’stand up’ and’sit down’ as if they were children.
“This is the same OBJ who, once upon a time, displayed his respect, humility and I daresay greatness by bowing, kneeling and prostrating before our monarchs, even when he was President, yet today he talks to them as if they are his garbage collectors and commands them to jump up and down like a molue driver talking to his beleaguered passengers and a motor park tout talking to a group of unemployed and worthless underlings.
Many people believe that the entire situation is some sort of comedy, but I do not. We must not be complacent, because the truth is that by acting in the way he did, he spat in all of our faces.
