BY BRIGHT JACOB
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has come down heavily on Nigerians mocking the attire of the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kashim Shettima, at the Nigerian Bar Association 62nd Annual General Conference 2022, taking place in Victoria Island, Lagos.
Fani-Kayode, in a Facebook post, said that those who tried to make a mockery of Shettima by mimicking how the former Borno State governor dressed to the conference only “exposed themselves for the infantile, asinine, jobless clowns, godless and disrespectful Philistines and infidels that they are.”
At the NBA Conference which runs from August 19 to 26, Shettima, who represented the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the conference on Monday, donned a suit and a pair of sneakers.
Fani-Kayode said those who sought to mock Shettima only succeeded in exalting the Senator representing Borno Central in the National Assembly.
“When grown men in their 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s take pictures in strange garb in an attempt to mock Senator Kashim Shettima, our incoming VP, they do nothing but expose themselves for the infantile, asinine and jobless clowns and godless and disrespectful Philistines and infidels that they are.
“Nothing reflects the obsessive and narcissistic disposition, sociopathic tendencies, intellectual degeneration and moral turpitude of some of those in our midst than this imbecilic idiocy and repugnant behaviour.
“They behave more like bling-wearing ghetto gangbangers and hoodlum slum Kings than supposedly enlightened, educated, exemplary and civilised adults.
“They belong in a zoo or better still a jungle filled with wild animals. That is their natural habitat.
“They are nothing but toxic and ravenous beasts and spiritual vampires who seek to feed off the misfortune of others and sap their energy and who live to attempt to ridicule, humiliate and falsely accuse good men in a futile attempt to pull them down.
“They seek to mock Shettima but they have only succeeded in exalting him, lifting him up and mocking themselves,” Fani-Kayode fired.
The former Minister, who was known to be earlier aversed to any Muslim-Muslim ticket in the APC and who eventually chose to support Tinubu after the latter’s emergence as the presidential candidate of the party, praised Shettima for his “powerful speeches” at the conference and submitted he (Shettima) was “on the road towards becoming the Vice President.”
Fani-Kayode further stated that the actions of those who mocked Shettima made no difference to him (Shettima) or those of them who stood for the APC candidates in “the great quest and mighty battle.”
“Whilst he is displaying his natural and sheer brilliance with his informed commentary and powerful speeches, which were so well displayed at the NBA conference where he stole the show, and whilst he is on the road towards becoming VP, the miscreants are taking selfies of themselves in strange garb in an attempt to undermine and belittle him.
“Yet, whether they continue to do so or not makes no difference to him or to those of us that stand with him and BAT in this great quest and mighty battle,” he said.
On the micro-blogging app, Twitter, and other social networking sites, a picture of Shettima seated at the NBA conference had trended online and resonated across social media as #ShettimaChallenge, which depicted some Nigerians taking selfies of themselves whilst dressed in suits and sneakers.
Fani-Kayode said that regardless of the antics of these Nigerians who he noted would continue to take “childish little selfies”, Shettima would march on into the Presidency.
He further urged them to grow up, act their ages and not their shoe sizes, as there were more important issues to discuss and focus on in the country.
“Whether they like it or not he is on the move and regardless of their antics he is marching on whilst they will, more likely than not, continue to take childish little selfies and post them on social media for the rest of their sorry lives in an attempt to find relevance and seek validation from a faceless mob and their equally lost and deluded cheerleaders, friends and colleagues.
“That is all they have to offer or show for their miserable and frustrated lives and sorry existence.
“I have one message for them: GROW UP, ACT YOUR AGE AND NOT YOUR SHOE SIZE AND GET A LIFE!
“We have far more important issues to discuss and focus on in this country and far bigger problems to solve than someone else’s attire and the type of shoes, ties and suits that he chooses to wear,” he concluded.
