It
said Chief Femi Fani-Kayode as a former minister of aviation knows the
importance of security procedures at airports having been a major
stakeholder himself and would not do anything to cause the breach of
security at the airport or anywhere else.
“What
Sahara Reporters and its paymasters mischievously misinterpret as
“breach of security” is obviously the effusive show of camaraderie and
support to the former minister by management and staff of the airports,
passengers and other users whenever he uses the facilities”, the
statement said.
Continuing,
the former minister of aviation’s media team said, to the chagrin of
his traducers, Fani-Kayode has cut a heroic figure for himself among
Nigerians of all status to the extent that he is almost always mobbed by
his admirers who usually hail him to high heavens for his rare bold and
truthful stand on national issues, defending the oppressed, standing up
for the voiceless and speaking truth to power.
The
media team accused Sahara Reporters of turning itself into “a cheap
article and media outfit of easy virtue available for use by the highest
bidder to propagate falsehood”.
“Sahara
Reporters has over the years gained an inglorious and repudiating
reputation as an expert in the weaving of complex webs of lies and
staging theatrics with willing accomplices against high ranking
individuals with the hope of making pecuniary gains from such iniquitous
exercise.”
“On
June 30, 2015, in the run up to the general elections, Sahara
Reporters, in cahoots with their sponsors, planted one Lekan at a hotel
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode usually stayed in Lagos while on official
assignment there as Director of media and publicity of the PDP campaign
organization. The said Lekan barged into the section Fani-Kayode and
some guests were holding a meeting and started shouting wildly to the
shock of all present in an attempt to scuttle the meeting and provoke
Fani-Kayode and his delegates to a reaction.
“However,
their plans failed as Fani-Kayode and his guests maintained a sturdy
silence until the intruder was gone only for Sahara Reporters to report
minutes after that Fani-Kayode invaded the hotel with heavily armed
security men and caused chaos in the hotel.
“This
report left the hotel management greatly embarrassed as they apologized
profusely to Fani-Kayode for the falsehood propagated against him by
Sahara Reporters using the name of their hotel.
“We
wish to state that management and staff of airports especially in Lagos
and Abuja which Fani-Kayode uses most often have been carrying out
their duties including screening of passengers most professionally and
in a friendly manner. Fani-Kayode has no reason whatsoever not to submit
himself to such wonderful people in the discharge of their
responsibilities as any breach also has the capacity of putting everyone
including himself in danger.
“The
professionalism and friendliness with which airport management and
staff carry out their daily duties despite the biting economic hardship
in the nation today is part of the enduring legacies which Fani-Kayode
is proud to have bequeathed to the aviation industry and no amount of
mudslinging by the likes of Sahara Reporters can change that”, the
statement concluded.
The
media team of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to a report by Sahara
Reporters which claimed that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister
of aviation breaches security procedures at the airport whenever he
travels.....
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