Mel B claims she was drugged by her estranged husband throughout most
of their 10-year marriage, their bitter divorce battle has heard.
The former Spice Girl, real name Melanie Brown, has accused Stephen
Belafonte of domestic violence as they undergo an acrimonious split in
court in Los Angeles.
And in the latest development, Los Angeles Superior Court was told on Wednesday that she now claims he drugged her too.
One of Belafonte's lawyers, Philip Cohen, said: "Miss Brown now takes
the position she was drugged by Mr Belafonte throughout the course of
the marriage."
Mel B and Stephen Belafonte are currently locked in a divorce battle (Image: PA)
Mel B and Stephen Belafonte are divorcing after 10 years of marriage (Image: Getty) The America's Got Talent judge, made the allegation that
she was drugged throughout "much to most" of the relationship during a
recent deposition, Mr Cohen added.
Belafonte, also 42, is accused of tormenting Melanie with years of mental and physical abuse.
So far the preliminary hearings ahead of their full divorce trial have heard a series of damaging allegations.
Belafonte has claimed the singer has suffered from cocaine and alcohol
addiction, saying they were a "major issue" in their marriage.
Mel appeared as a judge on America's Got Talent (Image: NBCUniversal)
It has also been said that Melanie led an "extravagant"
lifestyle and had "wiped out" her 50 million dollar (£39 million) Spice
Girls fortune.
The couple married in Las Vegas in June 2007.
She filed for divorce on March 20, citing "irreconcilable differences" and detailing allegations of domestic abuse.
Belafonte's lawyers previously dismissed her claims as "nothing more than a smear campaign". A trial on the domestic violence allegations has been delayed and will now begin on November 6 ahead of the full divorce case.
Culled from Mirror
Friday, 20 October 2017
Lupita Nyong'o claims Harvey Weinstein 'tried to remove his pants after offering massage while his kids were in house'
The actress has described a number of encounters with the producer when she was just starting out in Hollywood
Lupita Nyong'o is the latest actress to come forward to describe her encounters with disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Writing in an op-ed in the New York Times,
she alleged that not only did Weinstein attempt to ply her with alcohol
when she met with him at a restaurant, but after they moved the meeting
to his home to watch a film screening, tried to give her a massage.
At a later meeting, the 34-year-old Oscar-winning actress claimed Weinstein, 65, propositioned her in a hotel restaurant.
According
to Nyong'o, she met with Weinstein for the second time - after having
initially met him in 2011 at an awards ceremony in Berlin while she was
still in school at Yale - when he asked her to attend a screening at his
home after sharing lunch at a restaurant.
When she arrived at
the restaurant in Westport, Connecticut, close to where Weinstein lived,
Nyong'o told of how he ordered her a vodka soda and insisted that she
drink it, despite her protests.
The actress has opened up about her experience with Weinstein (Image: AFP) After finishing their meal, she and Weinstein relocated to
his home, where Nyong'o was introduced to his domestic staff and
children.
Nyong'o wrote that she, Weinstein, and his children all
began watching the film together. About 15 minutes into the film,
however, Weinstein asked her to accompany him outside the room.
"I
protested that I wanted to finish the film first, but he insisted I go
with him, laying down the law as though I too was one of his children. I
did not want another back-and-forth in front of his kids, so I complied
and left the room with him. I explained that I really wanted to see the
film. He said we'd go back shortly.
(Image: Splash News) "Harvey led me into a bedroom - his bedroom - and announced
that he wanted to give me a massage. I thought he was joking at first.
He was not. For the first time since I met him, I felt unsafe. I
panicked a little and thought quickly to offer to give him one instead:
It would allow me to be in control physically, to know exactly where his
hands were at all times."
Nyong'o alleged that after he removed his shirt and she began giving him a massage, he asked if he could remove his pants.
She said she would prefer that he didn't and that it would make her extremely uncomfortable if he did so.
Despite her protests, Weinstein allegedly got up to remove them, at which point the actress moved toward the door.
Emma Watson, Margot Robbie and Lupita at last year's Met Gala (Image: REX) "I opened the door and stood by the frame. He put his shirt on and again mentioned how stubborn I was," she wrote.
"I
agreed with an easy laugh, trying to get myself out of the situation
safely. I was after all on his premises, and the members of his
household, the potential witnesses, were all (strategically, it seems to
me now) in a soundproof room."
Nyong'o wrote that she "didn't quite know" how to process the massage incident, and rationalised it.
His wife, Georgina Chapman, announced she was leaving him after the allegations surfaced (Image: REX/Shutterstock) "I reasoned that it had been inappropriate and
uncalled-for, but not overtly sexual. I was entering into a business
where the intimate is often professional and so the lines are blurred."
Nyong'o
continued that after the encounter she met up with Weinstein once more,
this time accompanied by friends as well as some of Weinstein's
colleagues, for dinner and a staged reading of his new Broadway show
Finding Neverland.
Harvey Weinstein has seen his empire collapse following allegations made against him (Image: REX/Shutterstock) During this meeting, Nyong'o experienced no untoward
attention, and the fact that Weinstein was accompanied by other female
actresses made her even more inclined to brush off the previous incident
as an awkward encounter.
A couple of months later, Nyong'o wrote, Weinstein invited her to have drinks with him after a screening of W.E.
According
to the actress, a male assistant arranged her transportation from the
reading to the Tribeca Grill, where she would meet Weinstein for drinks.
Weinstein, 65, meteorically
fell from grace after the claims were made public and has had ties
severed with his own firm, The Weinstein Company (Image: REUTERS) Although she assumed it would be a group of people, as it
had been for the reading, when she arrived at the restaurant, she was
informed by a female assistant that it would just be her and Weinstein.
The assistant waited with her until Weinstein appeared, at which time she left.
She
alleges that before their starters arrived he suggested that they go
upstairs to where he had a private room to have their rest of their
dinner.
"I told him I preferred to eat in the restaurant. He told
me not to be so naive. If I wanted to be an actress, then I had to be
willing to do this sort of thing. He said he had dated Famous Actress X
and Y and look where that had gotten them."
Lupita Nyong'o at the Queen of Katwe film premiere in Los Angeles (Image: Rex Features) The actress declined his offer and they left the restaurant and she went to get into a taxi.
"Before
I got in, I needed to make sure that I had not awakened a beast that
would go on to ruin my name and destroy my chances in the business even
before I got there," she wrote. "'I just want to know that we are good,'
I said. 'I don't know about your career, but you'll be fine,' he said.
It felt like both a threat and a reassurance at the same time; of what, I
couldn't be sure."
(Image: REX/Shutterstock) The next time she saw him was in 2013 at an after-party for
the premiere of 12 Years a Slave. Weinstein found her and commended her
for her rapid progress in the industry.
She alleges that he apologised for the way he had treated her in the past and he promised to respect her moving forward.
The actress thanked him, but says she made a promise to herself never to work with Weinstein.
Nyong'o
finished by explaining that she had no idea at the time that this
behaviour from Weinstein was something other women were dealing with as
well.
Nyong'o finished by
explaining that she had no idea at the time that this behavior from
Weinstein was something other women were dealing with as well (Image: Rex Features) The fact that he was one of the first people she'd met in
the industry also prevented her from coming forward sooner, and the fact
that no one else seemed to be challenging him.
In a statement to E! News, a spokesperson responded to the star's op-ed piece.
"Mr.
Weinstein has a different recollection of the events, but believes
Lupita is a brilliant actress and a major force for the industry.
He has "unequivocally denied" allegations of non-consensual sex through his spokeswoman (Image: AFP) "Last year, she sent a personal invitation to Mr. Weinstein to see her in her Broadway show Eclipsed."
A
number of actresses have come forward in recent weeks to accuse
Weinstein of sexual harassment, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Headey,
Angelina Jolie, Cara Delevingne, Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd.
Weinstein
meteorically fell from grace after the claims were made public and has
had ties severed with his own firm, The Weinstein Company.
He has "unequivocally denied" allegations of non-consensual sex through his spokeswoman.
Police in London, Los Angeles and New York are investigating the 65-year-old.
Mirror
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Senate under pressure to drop probe of $25b NNPC contracts
• Shifts takeoff of investigation
• Urges Buhari to split Fashola’s ministry
• Lawmakers summon Fayemi over lead poisoning in Zamfara State
The Senate has postponed the commencement of its planned
investigation into the alleged award of $25 billion worth of contracts
in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).Following the
allegation of abuse of due process made by the Minister of State for
Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, against the NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr.
Maikanti Baru, the Senate resolved to investigate the matter.
The upper chamber also resolved to investigate Baru over alleged
insubordination and abuse of office as contained in the leaked
Kachikwu’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari.Deputy Senate President,
Ike Ekweremadu, who announced the postponement during yesterday’s
plenary session, said that the investigation would commence next
Tuesday.
The investigative panel headed by former Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu
Wamakko, ought to have started work yesterday.Ekweremadu, who presided
over the plenary, did not give any reason for the sudden postponement.
It was, however, learnt that pressure was being mounted on the Senate
leadership from many powerful quarters to abandon the probe.
When Senate President Bukola Saraki constituted the ad-hoc panel last
week, following a resolution of the Senate and public outcry over the
award of the alleged contracts, the committee was given four weeks to
submit its report.A source said that an earlier meeting scheduled last
week by the panel chairman, Wammako, was also called off at the last
minute for undisclosed reasons.
Wamakko is yet to address the press about the modalities his
committee would adopt in conducting the investigation.After the Senate
announced its decision to probe the alleged contracts, the presidency
came out to deny their existence.Already, an Abuja-based lawyer,
Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobi, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in
Abuja to restrain the Senate from inviting Baru over the allegation.
In his suit, Jideobi asked the court to set aside the October 4, 2017
proceedings of the Senate on the ground that its planned investigation
was based on the contents of an unconfirmed document of doubtful origin.
According to the originating summons, the counsel to the plaintiff,
Ramsey Abuchi Omego, wants the court to determine “whether in view of
combined reading of Sections 5 and 88 (2) (a) and (b) of the amended
1999 Constitution, the investigative power of the Senate is extendable
to the contents of documents with unconfirmed, doubtful origin forming
the basis of a probe into the activities of Baru in his management of
the NNPC.”
The plaintiff is also seeking an order declaring the October 4, 2017
resolutions of the Senate as illegal and therefore liable to be set
aside.The plaintiff has also asked the court to issue an order
restraining the Senate from acting on the votes and proceedings of
October 4, 2017.The defendants in the suit include the NNPC, Baru,
Saraki and the Senate.
Also yesterday, the Senate urged President Muhammadu Buhari to
appoint a separate minister to take care of power to facilitate higher
performance in the sector.
Former Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fasola, has been the minister in
charge of Works, Power and Housing since the inception of the Buhari
administration in 2015.
Adopting a motion sponsored by Senator Mustapha Bukar (APC-Katsina)
on the “Need to Establish and Delegate Special Purpose Vehicles to
Execute and Operate Major Power Sector Development Projects”, the Senate
sought the immediate incorporation of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs)
for the implementation of alternative energy projects. It equally sought
the use of gas as the source of energy for the Kaduna project in
accordance with the original concept.
Defending his motion earlier, Bukar noted that the Federal Government
in 2004 conceived the idea of an integrated power project which
metamorphosed into the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC)
incorporated in 2005.“This was in government’s quest to bridge the
power gap for sustained economic growth in Nigeria by adding significant
new generation capacity to Nigeria’s electricity supply system,” he
said.
He noted that the National Assembly enacted the Electric Power Sector
Reform (EPSR) Act, 2005 on March 11, 2005, which kick-started the
process of privatisation of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry
(NESI).This, he said, was in a bid to develop a Competitive Electricity
Market with the establishment of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory
Commission (NERC). The function of NERC is to provide for the licensing
and regulation of the entire value chain of the Nigerian Electricity
Market (NEM).
“The privatisation became effective on Nov.1, 2013 when the unbundled
Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) was sold and transferred to
successful bidders of the six generation companies (GENCOs) and the 11
distribution companies (DISCOs).“The ownership and control of the
Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) was retained by the Federal
Government for strategic reasons,” he said.
The lawmaker further said that consequent upon the commencement of
the privatisation and establishment of the NEM, the role of the Federal
Ministry of Power, Works and Housing was restricted.The Chairman, Senate
Committee on Power, Eyinnaya Abaribe, said the committee was already
making moves towards securing greater efficiency for the sector.
“We are working toward ensuring that these concerns that have been
raised by this motion are looked into.“The ministry of power today is
combined with works and housing and the thrust of the ministry is to
give quality direction. But what we find is that the ministry continues
to appropriate these jobs that are specifically meant to be done by
agencies under the ministry,” he said.
Ekweremadu said every talk about growing the economy would not work
unless the power sector was repositioned.The lawmakers summoned the
Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi, for a briefing on
his plans to protect people in mining communities.They mandated the
Committee on Environment and Solid Minerals to visit affected
communities and ascertain the levels of damage.
The resolutions followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by
Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central) and four other senators on lead poisoning
in Zamfara State.The chamber further directed the Committee on
Environment to investigate activities of the Ministry of Environment
with regard to the mining sector.
Meanwhile, Fayemi has disclosed significant gains made by the mining
sector, saying improved funding and planning could soon make the
industry break Nigeria’s dependence on crude oil.
This is not the first time the singing
duo had a conflict that threatened to separate them but somehow they had
managed to resolved things. Now it seems there is no going back on this
declaration of separation.
Lola who is married to one half of the singing duo, Peter, has
somehow always managed to be dragged into whatever fight P-Square is
having. Fans of the music group and Nigerians in general never hesitate
to brandish their weapons and point accusing fingers at the mother of
two whenever the family feuds.
Peter and Paul Okoye
Peter Okoye has made several complaints about his twin Paul and their
older brother Jude, who happens to be the manager of P Square. Peter
accused Paul of being uncooperative and ruining their plans for a
musical tour in the US. In addition, Peter said Paul was guilty of
slander against his wife and children. Possible further causes of the
split could be the fact that Peter had a lot to say about his older
brother Jude, who allegedly threatened Peter Okoye with murder. Peter
added that Jude also threatened to shoot his wife, Lola, with a pistol.
Social media was then set into disarray after Peter posted a Snapchat
video revealing that he is in Philadelphia on his own for a solo
performance – without his twin brother, Paul. “My name is Mr P,” Peter
said “As from today, guess what? It’s show time, I’m about to go on
stage.”
This post came days after his brother, Paul wrote on Instagram
saying; “Only a woman can come where there’s peace and destroy it”. and
trust Nigerians to take this with a pinch of salt, by all means,
blaming Lola.
We can only wish the once duo success as they decide to take on solo careers.
From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja, Seye Ojo, Ibadan and Romanus Ugwu
President Muhammadu Buhari would decide the fate of the suspended
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and
the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke,
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said yesterday.
Lawal and Oke were suspended on April 19 following and a three-man
committee which included the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr.
Abubakar Malami and National Security Adviser, General Babagana Monguno
(retd) raised to investigate them.
Prof. Osinbajo, who spoke to journalists after he presented the report
to the president, decline to revealthe content. He insisted that the
president would study it make his decisions known at a yet to be
determined date.
“Of course not. I mean this is a report, which contains recommendations
to the president. It is a fact finding committee as you know and what
our terms of reference were was to find out, based on the fact available
to us and based on the interviews of witnesses of what transpired in
those cases of the report, one involving the SGF and the other the DG of
NIA. We have now concluded and we submitted a full report with
recommendations to the president. We cannot, of course, give you any
kind of details because the president has to look at the report, study
it and then make his own decisions based on that report.”
Buhari was originally scheduled to receive the report on May 8, but had
to leave travel on May 7 after he received the 104 released Chibok
secondary school girls, for medical consultations with his doctors in
London. He returned last Saturday after 103 days.
Asked if Nigerians should expect a fair report despite the fact that the
suspended SGF is a friend of the president, the vice president replied:
“Well, as you can imagine, we are always fair-minded and the whole
approach is to ensure that justice is done in all cases.
“It is in the interest of the government and also in the interest of the
nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and
that we are not unfair. You can be sure that we will do the right
thing.”
On how soon Nigerians should expect the president’s decision on the
report, Osinbajo said: “All I can now say is that we have submitted the
report, and it is a very detailed report, as a matter of fact. The
president has to study the report and make decisions.”
Asked if heads would roll, he replied: “No, how can I tell you? If you
want to know what is in the report you have to wait, you really have to
wait.”
President Buhari had in April ordered the suspension of Lawal and Oke.
He also ordered investigation into the allegations of violations of law
and due process made against Lawal in the award of contracts under the
Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE).
The Senate had indicted Global Vision Ltd., owned by the SGF last
December for benefiting from inflated and phantom contracts – or ones
not executed at all – awarded by the Presidential Initiative for the
North East (PINE). The company got over N200 million contracts to clear
invasive grass in Yobe State Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp.
Oke’s travail followed the discovery of substantial sum of money in
local and foreign currencies by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) in a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi,
Lagos, over which the NIA made a claim.
Dr. Habibat Lawal was named acting SGF, while Ambassador Arab Yadam, was
also named acting NIA DG as directed by Buhari that the most senior
permanent secretary in the Office of the SGF and senior deputy in NIA.
Earlier, the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) which has held all the time Buhari was away on medical vacation was shelved.
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity,
Femi Adesina, however, failed to give reasons for the cancellation of
the meeting.
Adesina only said the president would receive the report of the
investigation committee into the allegations against the suspended SGF
and the DG, NIA.
However, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome described as
shameful and disgraceful, a statement by the presidency that Buhari
could not work from his office because of rats and rodents.
Ozekhome said the statement derided and shamed Nigeria as a country.
“So, a whole Julius Berger, the German construction giant has to be
called in to drive them away and repaint the office! This statement
further derides and shames Nigeria as a country. Why didn’t the same, or
similar rodents pursue Obasanjo, Yar’adua and Jonathan during their
presidency?” he queried.
He said that for truth, there was another mini office at the villa quite different from the official residence and main office.
“Let PMB work from them. Let’s see our president working, not through
still photo shopping. For how long will this government take the
Nigerian citizens for a ride and for robots? Who told the image makers
we are as brainless as they are? Don’t they know that lies have expiry
date and that propaganda cannot substitute for image making?”
Meanwhile, former presidential aspirant, Princess Hadiza Ibrahim, said
Buhari should probe allegations that hyenas and jackals have infiltrated
his administration.
She described the hyenas and jackals as “those people that did not want
Buhari to come back and wanted this country to be upside down.They are
the enemies of this country. And they know themselves. I know that
Buhari will do some fact-finding and get to know them. I advise the
hyenas and the jackals to run. So, those who feel they should run,
should run now.
“President Buhari should sit down properly, look at the right and left,
though he has done a little mistakes, which he accepted by his speech
and he should put them right. We are all happy that President Buhari has
returned to Nigeria. It is a great loss to be ashamed of a shameless
person. Baba should throw out the hyenas and jackals in his kingdom. If
they wished him dead and he is back, he should put them in their
places.”
FORMER Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku,
will today deliver a lecture in commemoration of the 98th birthday of
Chief Akintola Williams, the first African to qualify as a chartered
accoun- tant.
Anyaoku’s lecture, entitled: “Re-establishing Nigeria’s leadership
position in the World,” is the third in series of lectures organised by
the Akintola Williams Foundation since 2015.
Born on August 9, 1919, Chief Williams began his education at
Olowogbowo Methodist Primary School, Bankole Street, Apongbon, Lagos
Island, in the early 1930s, the same primary school his late younger
brother, Chief Rotimi Williams attended.
His firm, founded in 1952, later grew organically and through mergers
to become the largest professional ser- vices firm in Nigeria by 2004.
Williams participated in founding the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. During a long career,
Williams received many honours.
Anyaoku, the lecturer, was the third Commonwealth Secretary-General.
He was educated at Merchants of Light School, Oba and attended the
University College of Ibadan, then a col- lege of the University of
London, from which he obtained an honours degree in Classics as a
College Scholar.
Anyaoku joined the Commonwealth Development Cor- poration in 1859 and
by 1962, he came in contact with the then Prime Minister of Nigeria,
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Belewa, having accompanied his visiting boss, Lord
Ho- wick, Chairman of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, to a
meeting with the Prime Minister on the activities of the corporation in
Nigeria and the West Afri- can region.
The Prime Minister, impressed by Anyaoku’s answers to some of his
questions on the projects supported by the CDC in West Africa, took an
interest in his future and persuaded him to consider joining the
Nigerian Foreign Service.
After a grueling interview by the Federal Civil Service Commission,
Anyaoku was offered an appointment in the Foreign Service in April 1962.
Within a month of his en- try, he was appointed Personal Assistant to
the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry for External Affairs.
In 1966, Anyaoku joined the Commonwealth Secretar- iat as Assistant
Director of International Affairs. In 1977, the Commonwealth Heads of
Government elected him as Deputy Secretary-General. Anyaoku was to
become Ni- geria’s Foreign Minister in 1983 in the short-lived Shehu
Shagari’s second term in office as president.
After the overthrow of the government by the mili- tary later that
year, he returned to his position as Deputy Secretary-General. In 1989,
at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at Kuala Lumpur, Anyaoku
was elected the third Commonwealth Secretary-General. He was re-elected
at the 1993 CHOGM in Limassol for a sec- ond five-year term, beginning
on April 1, 1995.
• You lack native sense, Gov tells ex-minister
• You’re suffering inferiority complex, ex-minister replies
The media war between Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has got messier.
Okorocha, in a statement signed by his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo,
yesterday, described the ex-minister as bereft of native sense.
“Fani-Kayode’s only claim to fame is the prominent background of his family without which he has nothing else to show,” he said.
Fani-Kayode had, through his media aide, Jude Ndukwe, expressed doubts
about the authenticity of the photograph published in the media from the
recent visit of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) and some governors to President Muhammadu Buhari in London. He had
described Okorocha’s action as “a sign of desperation to serve the evil
purposes for which he has been procured.”
Okorocha, in his reaction, dismissed the former aviation minister as a “spoilt and over pampered child.”
But Fani-Kayode countered by referring to the Imo State governor as “a
dirty, cheap, fat, ugly frog that mistakes himself for a monkey simply
because he can hop…”
Okorocha said Fani Kayode “needs a psychiatric examination of his
mental health.” He said if the ex-minister had any problem with the
visit of the APC delegation to Buhari in London he should have dwelt on
that rather than going personal without addressing the issue.
“And on our part, as responsible people, we had delayed in responding to
Kayode’s attacks or hesitated in joining issues with him because most
Nigerians had, before now, doubted his intelligent quotient and had also
called for certain clinical examinations.
“Again, there is obviously a very wide gulf between a man who has
succeeded in every segment of life through the dint of hard work and,
indeed, by God’s grace, and someone whose only claim in the society or
his only meal ticket is the late father’s name.
“And we also know that spoilt and over pampered children do not know
what it takes to have self-discipline and respect for others,” Okorocha
said.
The Imo Sate governor said he began life as a street hawker and ended up
being a governor and successful man, both in business and in other
areas of life, and also obtained a Masters degree in law from the
University of Jos without parental contributions.
“And for him (Fani-Kayode), at the age of eight, he was already at
Brighton College, Brighton, in the UK and, also, studied law at London
University. And one can see that what Africans call “native sense” might
have eluded him. And this “native sense” guides or helps one a lot,
including how to talk to people especially superiors,” Okorocha said.
Fani-Kayode, however, said the Imo State governor “is suffering from a terrible and debilitating inferiority complex.”
He described Okorocha as “a primitive and bush villager of questionable
paternity whose father remains unknown even to his mother.
“Instead of respecting himself, shutting up and seeking for forgiveness
from God for betraying his Igbo people, addressing his elders and
betters in an inappropriate and insolent manner, and playing the fool,
the village idiot called Rochas Okorocha has, once again, fouled up the
public space by opening his dirty mouth and talking about Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode, the former Minister of Culture and Tourism and former
Minister of Aviation.”
Fani-Kayode said it was not a crime to have been born into a well-to-do
family and neither was it a sin. He said Okorocha “has no decorum, no
finesse, no decency, no class, no education and no integrity.”
“We repeat that a man who constantly speaks up for and supports a
government that consistently slaughters and routinely massacres his own
(Igbo) people can only be described as a sociopathic self-hating Igbo,
who is suffering from a terrible and debilitating inferiority complex.
“When he finishes his tenure as governor he will crawl back into the filthy cesspit and hole from which he came.
“FFK was never a ritualist, a cultist, a 419er, a sodomite, a traitor or
a dirty and unreliable street urchin and scammer. He never ruined the
lives of millions, bowed before strange gods and slept in coffins to
make his money.
“He never sold his soul to the devil or his body to reprobate men who lust for other men in return for money and power.”
The former minister said Okorocha has much to answer for and “the evil
spirits that, by his own admission, have been tormenting him ever since
he became governor will soon take their pound of flesh.
“The sword of the Lord is poised to strike and the judgement of God
awaits him for his many indiscretions and sins. Thereafter comes
hellfire,” Fani-Kayode concluded.