I
have just read some absurd media reports in which have quoted their
sources in the EFCC as saying that I had gone underground and that I was
hiding from them. This is false. I have not been invited by the EFCC by
letter and neither have they phoned me or attempted to reach me in any
other way. I have been in my Abuja home for the last few weeks and I am
not hiding from anyone.
I am not a coward and this attempt to
further demonise and humiliate me by the EFCC will fail. If they have
any questions for me why don’t they just write to me or call me, give me
a date and I will be in their office. I have made my position clear on
the issue of the Presidential campaign funds, I have written an essay
about it in my various columns about two weeks ago and I have been
waiting for the EFCC to reach me ever since then. They have invited
others but they have not invited me. I do not believe that I have done
anything wrong and this latest attempt to criminalise me and make me
look like a fugitive from justice will fail.
Others that were invited to the EFCC
over this same campaign funds issue were sent letters of invitation and
were reached. I appear to be the exception and now these hideous lies
are being fed to the newspapers to make it look as if I am in hiding or
that I am running from them just to sensationalise the whole issue.
This is also to justify what the EFCC
wish to do which is to arrest me in public, humiliate me, or to storm my
home and lock me up indefinitely. There is no need for all that drama
and if it happens that way the Nigerian people will know why. I have no
fear of the EFCC, I will respond to their invitation any day and anytime
they send it to me and I will help them to clarify whatever issues they
wish to raise in any way that I can.
Others were invited in a civilised way
and were treated in a humane and decent manner. I really do wonder why I
should be treated differently, criminalised in the newspapers in this
way and not even afforded the common courtesy of a formal invitation by
them. I await their letter or their call and I leave those that wish to
give the impression that I am running from them to God.
Femi-Fani Kayode is a lawyer, a
Nigerian politician, an evangelical christian, an essayist, a poet and
he was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun
Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006. He was the minister of culture
and tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from June 22nd to Nov 7th
2006 and as the minister of Aviation from Nov 7th 2006 to May 29th
2007. He tweets from @realFFK.
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