Opinion: “I have not gone mad!” says Femi Fani-Kayode – but has he?

by Henry Okelue

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I concluded that either Fani-Kayode was taking constant return trips to the place beyond the skies, or he has delved too deep into the esoteric, that it is beginning to escape from his pen, or fingers, or both.

You have not?

The man probably has an inkling as to the state of his mind to have made the statement in the title of this piece. Maybe he made it to reassure himself that he still has it together. I do have my doubts though.

Let me give you a background.

I first became really aware of the Chief, not when he was Minister of Aviation (he hasn’t stopped telling anyone who has the patience to listen that he single-handedly, and supernaturally prevented air-crashes during his tenure), but when he became the very foul mouthed spokesman for President Olusegun Obasanjo. He insulted anything and anyone moving, or not moving, including some senior citizens, icons of our society. That exploit of his is not the reason I am writing this though, so I will stop the digression.

When suddenly he popped up on social media, first on Facebook, and then on twitter, I knew things were about to get into a tizzy. He has since then carved a niche for himself on those platforms, a notorious niche. He seems not to see himself as a public figure as some of his comments and publications have left me wondering if he all was well in Fani-land.

First, it was his conclusions in the aftermath of the tragedy that befell Oscar Pistorious, the Blade Runner, and his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

In his article (which he later deleted from Facebook) titled “A Valentine Day’s Tragedy for the Blade Runner”, Chief Fani-Kayode outrightly concluded that the devil-sent pretty little model, whom he referred to by names ranging from Jezebel, Delilah, Yemoja, to Athalia(who on God’s green earth is that? He probably meant “Alitalia”, the Italian airline, to compare the woman with a flying witch. Who knows?), brought her demise upon herself.

Reeva, who Oscar never denied knowing in and out, was described by the very lettered Chief as the biblical “strange woman”. He didn’t stop there; he wrote she was the destroyer of Oscar’s destiny. How on earth a “statesman” could come up with such theories, in a high profile, sensitive case like that, is still a mystery to me. I just decided it was a once-off failing; at least in the end we are all just human. Well, maybe not Fani-Kayode. He didn’t even allow me catch my breath before he struck again.

This time it was during a twitter back and forth he had with some of his fans, and detractors. In his response to one of his disciples, during a conversation about Obasanjo’s failed third term bid, he tweeted the following:

“Some terrible things will happen soon [in Nigeria] and the whole place will explode. This is Prophetic. Mark it down”

As if that wasn’t enough; he had more from where that came from:

“The Lord is raising a Jehu to cleanse the land. He alone can and will bring drastic change. It is just a matter of time”

At this point, I concluded that either Fani-Kayode was taking constant return trips to the place beyond the skies, or he has delved too deep into the esoteric, that it is beginning to escape from his pen, or fingers, or both. Again, He didn’t let me drop that thought before he gave me more to masticate. He published another article.

In the wake of last week’s Woolwich murder that involved two British terrorists and an Afghan war veteran, the Chief hastily grabbed the nearest computer and typed out a long, mostly incoherent, conspiracy theory. In this particular article, he served up a pile of he conclusions that bare some semblance to not being in touch with reality – he kept mentioning stuff like “Peter Powers”-type hypnosis (I read that as Peter Pan the very first time), mind control system and all manner of murky stuff that learned people on the verge of losing it think up. To make it even scarier, he mentioned the word “Illuminati” four times before that article was done. He constantly claimed he knew what illuminati (or their representatives in England) were up to. Wait! A whole coherent, logical, suave (he descried himself as such while drawing a parallel between him and another abrasive Government spokesman) statesman is into the illuminati tales-by-moonlight too? Well, maybe he knows about these so called illuminati, maybe he has met them while fighting some of his supernatural wars, maybe he listens to too much Jay Z. At least they say it is only rich people who go for illuminati meetings. He is sure rich enough(I think) to get a VIP pass. Now he has left me with a lot of questions with almost no answers.

What is my point? I won’t waste time, I will let you know. Fani-Kayode’s comments of late (or maybe since forever) have left one with a lot to desire. They are illogical, outlandish and very inconsistent with a man of his public standing and caliber; they don’t come across as normal. Something is wrong somewhere.

He insisted in the penultimate paragraph of his Woolwich conspiracy theory that he hadn’t gone mad. Hmmmm. He probably was reading my mind.

If I were his associates, I will keep him away from the TV, a pen, paper, and his mobile phone. If they fail to do that, his next pile of balderdash is just a piece of breaking news away and he might write the very worst that will get him sectioned, and there might be no return from that this time.

As at the time of writing this piece, the erudite Chief had dropped another article. Fear didn’t let me even click the link.

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Henry Okelue is a social commentator and a geek of some sort.

 

Op-ed pieces and contributions are the opinions of the writers only and do not represent the opinions of Y!/YNaija.

Comments (6)

  1. Whichever is the case the man FFk seems unbalanced and can do better when he makes public assertions especially on social media no matter the topic; I respected him a lot but cannot deny that I feel a little less of him. He had an article on the vanguard recently talking about the yoruba people coming from Saudi Arabia, yes he isn’t the first to think so but in my opinion that’s just hogwash.

  2. Their real name may not be Illuminati, buh I fink a force like that really exist, it aint nonsense. A critical research will help u knw dat a certain group controls very important events that occur in the world.

  3. Henry Okelue, I'm no fan of FFK but just another reader who stumbled across your poorly researched article.

    As a self-acclaimed geek, I guess you've been doing some sort of brain masturbation and congratulating yourself on the remarkable intellectual quality of this article.

    I hate to burst the bubble but you seem to display an acute deficiency of thoroughly researching your topic before "hastily grabbing your own computer" to spew bile about another man.

    A simple Google search, which a 10-year-old is capable of, would have told you all you need to know about "Athaliah" and "Peter Powers hypnosis" rather than trying to misrepresent another man.

    Good luck with your mudslinging!

  4. Henry, you failed to highlight two very important additions to FFK’s soulful journey into the absurd via his pen. Recall that prior to the Presidential elections in the United States, he went into a nonsensical tirade of how President Obama was the anti-christ and how he was gonna use the ObamaCare scheme to implement the mark of the beast? If you missed that, you should not have missed his assertion on his FaceBook page that the sexual act was a demonstration of the worship of God. According to him, he opined that it was for this reason people are wont to moan and scream ”OH GOD” when having sex. The man has simply lost it and l find it difficult to understand why he is still taken seriously!!!

  5. I believe he visits babalawos too much and he says wt ever they tell him.as for the illuminati sh*t ,its still not understandable,cos I’m trying to link some recent occurence in d american music world to it and its making me hv a partial believe in its existence,may be a clue migh be ok
    Jaz called himself. J H.O.V,and now kanye calls himself yeezus ,although I’m a Muslim buh I believe thr is more to all this than music .its actually signs of d end time.
    Masallam!!!

  6. Ataliah was a queen mother in israel during the days of the kings, if you checked google before wrriting this article, you’d have known.
    I’m not pro-Fani Kayode, I think the illuminati link is prettyy far-fetched but there are some questions that raise eyebrows in the woolwicch murder…

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