‘I can’t be intimidated by threat of visa ban’ — Fani-Kayode replies British envoy | TheCable
Idris ShehuFemi Fani-Kayode, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress , says he will not be intimidated by
a “veiled threat of a visa ban” after Ben Llewellyn-Jones, British deputy high commissioner to Nigeria, described some of his comments during the general election as “inciteful”.what to say or how to speak” from the UK envoy.Earlier, Llewellyn-JonesSome of the former minister’s tweets in reference to the opposition have contained words and phrases deemed derogatory, divisive, and inciting.
The deputy high commissioner noted that 10 people had been added to the growing watchlist of the UK visa ban.not one of those Nigerians that bows, shakes, shivers and trembles before the British or indeed any other foreigner”.“Nigeria stopped being a British colony 63 years ago, and we need no lessons from him on how to run our affairs or conduct our politics,” Fani-Kayode wrote.
“I wonder who the hell he thinks he is. I am not one of those Nigerians that bows, shakes, shivers, and trembles before the British or indeed any other foreigner. And unlike most, I do not need any validation or endorsement from him or his ilk and neither can I be intimidated by his veiled threat of a visa ban. Frankly, I could not care less“Neither will we accept lessons in decency, etiquette, what to say, or how to speak from a British civil servant.
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