Nigerians are sadists – only if sadists suffer and smile at the same time. Then yes, they are.

In his usual, unbecoming fashion, Femi Fani-Kayode has once again cried wolf and this time, no one is fooled.

As Nigeria is plunged even deeper into messier and confusing ordeals left, right and center, more Nigerians are stepping onto the plate to point accusing fingers, critically analyze the situation and even call on God’s intervention.

The former minister of aviation managed to do all three.

And that may be his biggest blunder yet. Because this time around, no one seems to be paying any attention.

Especially as he was a key player in the former ruling People’s Democratic Party, a party that has been serially credited with the breakdown of different arms of the Nigerian society at large.

But then again as a Nigerian who lives in Nigeria, he ought to have something to say. The problem: he is saying nothing that the average Nigerian isn’t aware of and hasn’t discussed in the privacy of their homes, out on the e-streets and tongue wagged about at different recreational facilities dotting the landscape.

Omitting the screaming obviousness in his tweets, it almost comes across as a humble brag on his part, “Yes, we might have screwed the Nigerian people – but not as bad as this present government does”.

He tweets, “They are a government of liars, run by liars and for liars. They malign the weak and punish the innocent but God will see their end.”

It is hard to tell just whom his displeasure is aimed at – the Nigerian state, its leaders, people or all three combined. And like all things he says, it is better not to take it too seriously.

But then he takes it to a whole new level when he throws in the judgment of God into the mix. A classic Nigerian move on his part but perhaps he hasn’t gotten the memo about God not judging until the last day? Or about not judging lest thou be judged?

It is almost a daunting task wondering whose sympathy in particular Fani-Kayode is trying to garner, given his outbursts and lashing out against said group(s) of people in the past. One reads in wonderment how a certain, newly fabricated empathy is doled out in huge measure – when deep down, we know he truly doesn’t give two hoots.

By now, Nigerians already know the drill. And why shouldn’t they? The man continues to play on our intelligence likening us to brain dead frogs that refuse to jump out of water set to a slow rolling boil.

To be fair to him, he does raise a salient point for convictions in the court of law as against trial by the media. He, being a lawyer himself, will be knowledgeable about the rule of law and court orders and the consequences for defying them. Another case for the man living in glass houses still throwing stones.

At the risk of sounding like the devil’s advocate however, this could be a clear situation of bad timing discrediting the power of media and its attendant paraphernalia – especially as FFK never shies away from taking to social media to air his views. Certainly, he can’t be against the social media bill.

Many Nigerians continue to carry on in the hustle and bustle living in Nigeria means, eking out a living without much help from the government – past and present (inclusive of the administrations he served under) and words from a man who had some capacity to change a few things when he could but didn’t mean a little less than nothing.

In fact, his whole speeches, Facebook updates and tweets are, in his words, a dime for a dozen.

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Opinion article written by Temitope Sophia Ben-Ajepe