I Owe Nobody Apology, Fani-Kayode Says As Outrage Greets Verbal Assault Of Nigerian Journalist

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, has said that he owed nobody apology for verbally attacking a journalist during a press conference.

SaharaReporters had reported how Fani-Kayode attacked Eyo Charles, a journalist with Daily Trust newspaper, who asked him a question during a press briefing in Calabar, Cross River State, last week.

Charles had asked the former minister if his recent trips to some South-South and South-West states were sponsored when Fani-Kayode rained verbal assualt at him.

The ex-minister said, “I could see from your face before you got here, how stupid you are. Don’t ever talk to me like that. Who do you think you’re talking to. Bankrol who? You think I am one of those ones you… from who, when, how? You have a small mind, very small mind. Don’t judge me by your own standards.”

The development has since triggered reactions among Nigerians with most condemning Fani-Kayod’s action.

But reacting via a statement on Twitter, Fani-Kayode insisted that he had no apologies to offer for his action.

He said, “During my tour of the South and after a long and successful press conference in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, a journalist put up his hand for the last question and said: Well we do not know who is bankrolling you.

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