Fani-Kayode responds to the British envoy, saying “I Can’t Be Intimidated By Fear Of Visa Ban”

Chief of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Femi Fani-Kayode, replied to the British Envoy’s ultimatum by declaring that he would not be frightened by a “veiled threat of a visa restriction.”

This comes soon after Ben Llewellyn-Jones, the British deputy high commissioner to Nigeria, called some of FFK’s remarks made before the general election “inciteful” and said that 10 persons had been added to the UK visa ban’s expanding blacklist.

Fani-Kayode said in a message posted on his Twitter page on Sunday that he would not accept advice on “what to say or how to talk” from the UK ambassador.

In response to the British ambassador’s comments, Fani-Kayode said that he was “not one of those Nigerians that bends, shakes, shivers, and trembles before the British or indeed any other foreigner.”

Nigeria no longer counts as a British colony, according to Fani-Kayode, and we don’t need his advice on how to manage our affairs or conduct our politics.

“Who the heck does he think he is? I do not belong to the group of Nigerians that kowtow, shiver, quiver, or quake before the British or any other foreigner. And unlike most people, I don’t need his approval or support, nor can I be scared by his subliminal threat of a visa restriction. Actually, I don’t give a damn.

“We also won’t take any advice from a British public worker on decency, decorum, what to say, or how to talk. When it comes to the politics of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I counsel this Englishman to respect himself and keep quiet. We became a country 63 years ago, and we are not the British’s poodle.