The NDYF, which gave the warning at a press conference on Thursday, in Abuja, also gave the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS) 48 hours to arrest Fani-Kayode before his "injudicious, uncultured and inflammatory speeches" spark widespread civil disturbance and national insecurity.
A youth group under the aegis of the Nigerian Democratic Youth Front (NDYF) has urged the Nigerian government to stop the Director of New Media for the ruling All Progressives Congress’ Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC), Femi Fani-Kayode from making divisive comments that could tear the country apart.
The NDYF, which gave the warning at a press conference on Thursday, in Abuja, also gave the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS) 48 hours to arrest Fani-Kayode before his "injudicious, uncultured and inflammatory speeches" spark widespread civil disturbance and national insecurity.
The President of NDYF, Dr. Gideon Obong and its Secretary-General, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Yahaya, who addressed the conference said the former aviation minister’s recent statement that Muslims in Nigeria would have become an endangered species if the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, had won the presidential election, was inappropriate.
According to the group, history has shown that wars often start as verbal altercations before progressing into physical duels.
The statement said, "Fani-Kayode had in one of his recent senseless rants on Twitter attempted to defame Mr. Obi before our Muslim brothers and sisters by gloating that the purported leaked telephone conversation between him and Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church makes him unfit to lead a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multicultural state as a hater of non-Christians.”
The youth group further said, "FFK (as he is popularly called) threw away dignity and morality to spew venomous comments against Obi to please his paymasters ostensibly for speaking for the interest of Muslims and other non-Christians.
“Ironically, Fani-Kayode who is the one setting Nigeria up for another civil war with his inciting comments has no moral basis to allege that Obi would have plunged Nigeria into a religious war within a few months if had emerged as president.”
The group noted that the “government is endangering the unity of the country by tolerating his insensitive razzmatazz”.
“His incessant incisive comments are setting the ground for Nigeria's disintegration. He needs to be quarantined out of sight for an urgent mental evaluation.
“The APC government may choose the continued engagement of the folly and foolhardiness of Femi Fani-Kayode at the risk of widespread civil disturbance and national insecurity. FFK has earned the inglorious reputation of the worst threat to our national unity, peace and security," it added.