It has been suggested that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s father may not be a Yoruba guy by former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode.
Fani-Kayode claimed that Obasanjo’s “silence” over Igbo businessman Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu’s recent remark that Yoruba people are “political rascals” was proof that the former president’s father was Igbo, not Yoruba.
Igbo people, according to Iwuanyanwu, had made significant investments in Nigeria and were not going to budge under pressure to leave. Iwuanyanwu criticized Yoruba people while speaking in Awka, Anambra State, on Saturday.
Fani-Kayode, however, claimed he was disappointed in Obasanjo for remaining silent in response to Iwuanyanwu’s anti-Yoruba remarks.
Taking to his Twitter handle, Fani-Kayode wrote: “The fact that our revered leader and one of the fathers of our nation, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, can sit there and say nothing when Emmanuel Iwanyanwu, who I have always respected, describes the entire Yoruba race as “rascals” that the Igbo “will DEAL with” tells me that the rumour that he is NOT a fully-fledged Yoruba man and that his father was an Igbo may well be true.
“Whatever the case, this is not the OBJ I once knew, loved, defended and worked so hard for. Something has gone wrong. No one could have made a statement against ANY tribe in the presence of the old OBJ that we all knew and respected and got away with it.”
Following the outcome of the presidential election, there was a face-off between Yorubas and Igbos in Lagos.
The fallout was due to the victory of the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in Lagos State.
Against the backdrop of Obi’s victory, Igbos were warned against voting during the governorship election in Lagos.