As has become his stock-in-trade in recent times, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday launched a diatribe against supporters of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who are popularly called Obidients.
Since APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Boal Tinubu was declared President-elect on March 1, Obidients have maintained that the process that produced him was flawed while backing Obi’s decision to challenge the outcome of the election in court.
Obidients have been strongly criticised in some quarters for allegedly showing disdain towards dissenting opinions or constructive criticism.
In a lengthy tweet on Tuesday, Fani-Kayode said that “the Obidients are (with apologies to Governor Charles Soludo) “a headless mob” similar to the demonised and emotionally unhinged rabble that insisted on the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“They are filled with the same violent, angry, divisive, rebellious, treacherous, mutinous, treasonous, deceitful, mendacious, deceptive, ungrateful, covetous, vain, insatiable and murderous spirit that possessed Lucifer, Son of the Dawn.”
Fani-Kayode, who has been criticised by the British government for disparaging the opposition, noted that handing power to Obidients was tantamount to seeing “Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Ian Smith, Hendrik Verwoerd, Joseph Kony, Val the Impaler, Genghis Khan, Atilla the Hun and Jean Bedie Bokassa all rolled into one rise from the dead”.
“They remind me of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, one of the leaders of the January 15th 1966 mutiny in which many leaders from the old Northern and Western Region were murdered in cold blood.
“Give them power and their leader, Peter Gregory Obi, will continue what Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu started.
“He will implement the Nzeogwu agenda to the letter and with ruthless and relentless brutality and clinical precision.
“No matter how well masked, fascists will always be fascists and a leopard cannot change its spots,” Fani-Kayode state.
The former Aviation minister added that “despite all their seeming humility, false piety, fake righteousness and nauseous, grovelling “yes daddy” expressions of insincere love they are filled with unadulterated hatred for all those that do not share their views and that refuse to tow their obnoxious, venomous and poisonous line.”
Fani-Kayode, who served as Director of New Media of APC Presidential Campaign Council, noted that “vile words, hate speech, propaganda, falsehod, lies, threats, insults, turmoil, intrigue, betrayal, subterranean plots, violence, evil conspiracies and the inability to brook opposing views or tolerate dissenting voices are their hallmark and forte.”
“They are not just a political party or movement: they are a dark, sinister, insidious, destructive, malignant, malevolent, cancerous, divisive, fanatical and dangerous force of vicious and sociopathic subversives and religious and ethnic bigots who are heavily invested in the kingdom of darkness, who have strong connections in the international criminal underworld, who are under the power and influence of western intelligence agencies, who have poisoned the souls and fouled up the minds of millions of young Nigerians and who are hell bent on destroying the Nigerian state and dismembering our country.
“They speak Nigeria but Biafra and the total and complete enslavement and subjugation of our people is in their hearts.
“They are not democrats in ANY sense of the word and they do not believe in democracy.
“They would be better described as a vicious, blood-lusting and bloodthirsty cult who feed on the souls, kindle the barbarity and fuel the depravity of misguided and lesser men and miserable and frustrated women.
“They believe in nothing but deceit, lies, propaganda, threats, violence and intimidation,” Fani-Kayode stated.
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