FFK’s assault on reporter stirs social media debate

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode’s assault on Eyo Charles, a Daily Trust correspondent in Cross River has stirred a debate on social media after a video of the former aviation boss assaulting Charles went viral. The encounter occurred in Calabar, in the early hours of Thursday 20, August 2020 at a hotel, during […]

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode’s assault on Eyo Charles, a Daily Trust correspondent in Cross River has stirred a debate on social media after a video of the former aviation boss assaulting Charles went viral.

The encounter occurred in Calabar, in the early hours of Thursday 20, August 2020 at a hotel, during a round-table meeting with invited journalists.

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During the round-table, Charles asked Fani-Kayode who was bankrolling his recent trips around Nigeria but the ex-minister responded with a raised voice, hurling insults on Charles and threatened to inflict bodily harm on him after the cameras stopped rolling.

Below are some of the reactions that trailed FFK’s actions:

@Yetundemee The question no warrant the insults at all. The video posted by @toluogunlesi was one side of the coin, this has given the other.
Imagine the question @MarcoMaterazzi4 asked @ZidaneOfficial_ at the world cup to get headbutted. pic.twitter.com/ZUPW00I9f9

— ?Zion King✊ (@Tobisky88) August 25, 2020

Its disgraceful he blew his lot like that , whatever the journalist had to ask that question shouldnt mean much to him , he was expected to control himself , better leaders have faced worsed questions and ignored them , anger should not control your words

— Igwenagu Nnamdi David (@IgwenaguDavid) August 25, 2020

It seems like the question hits him hard and he has no answers to it. So he came up with the brawl. Our politicians and their antics???

— Sadiq mb (@sadiqmb3) August 25, 2020

For me, Fani had already dipped himself in a hot soup by boasting that as a former Minister he can never be bankrupt. What doest this mean to you pls? For me it means he bastardly enriched himself during his time as a minister. And I ask, how clean was his wealth?

— M. A. Saleh (@salihinbawa) August 25, 2020

Meet Fani-Kayode @realFFK first nigerian former minister to be upset because he can’t answer a question by @daily_trust reporter in 1980 pic.twitter.com/G3ZDl1rDvJ

— shamsu Abdullahi Hassan (@Deenboy5) August 26, 2020

The reporter has every right to ask him any question provided the question is not abusive. Fani-Kayode answer the question!!! You’re not better than any other man in Nigeria…its just an opportunity to plunder our wealth

— Julius Onyz (@jikojulison) August 25, 2020

Poor Femi Fani Kayode, he does not have control of his temper. His reaction is the answer to the question he was asked; A Hausa man would say ” me ya kawo maganar rami idan ba rami?” If Fani Kayode is genuine I don’t see how those questions will enrage him.

— baba (@antibila) August 25, 2020