As the dust raised by the European Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) report on the last presidential and states elections in Nigeria is yet to settle, the former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has added his voice.
Recall that in its final submission, the EU report claimed that the last election through which President Bola Tinubu was elected is flawed.
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According to a post by Fani-Kayode, made available to our correspondent, the report was not only nauseating, but also hypocritical. The former minister stated that the EU should rather be tendering unreserved apology for the atrocities committed against the African continent instead of looking for ways to unsettle the country.
He wrote:
Before they assail and afflict us with their self-serving, self-seeking, hypocritical, nauseating, infantile, irritating and inconsequential “election monitors report”, the EU and its member states should tender an unreserved apology for the unspeakable atrocities that they committed against the people of Africa over the last 200 years.
In case they have forgotten permit me to remind them of just a few.
The Germans committed genocide in Namibia.
The Belgians committed genocide in Congo.
The French commited genocide in Algeria.
The Dutch committed genocide in South Africa.
The Spanish committed genocide in Equitorial Guinea and Morocco.
The Portugese committed genocide in Angola and Mozambique.
The British (though no longer a member of the EU) committed genocide in Kenya and South Africa.
Hundreds of millions of Africans were subjected to ethnic cleansing, mass murder, slavery and total subjugation by the Europeans in the 19th and 20th century.
When a European accuses we Africans of being brutal and barbaric, of committing all manner of mindless atrocities against one another and of being a bunch of fraudulent and dishonest election-riggers they forget to mention the fact that, if true, we must have learnt such callousness, wickedness, barbarity and roguish traits from them. History proves that.
Their report deserves to be in one place and one place alone: the bottom of a dustbin!
Meanwhile, on page 94 of the controversial report, Fani-Kayode’s name was mentioned for spreading fake news during the election.
Ojelabi, the publisher of Freelanews, is an award winning and professionally trained mass communicator, who writes ruthlessly about pop culture, religion, politics and entertainment.
