It will be stupid to fight France's war in Niger, Fani-Kayode warns Tinubu

Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and staunch supporter of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has sharply disagreed with him on the subject of sending Nigerian troops to Niger under the guise of restoring constitutional democracy in the country.

In a long piece on Twitter, Fani-kayode said it would be imprudent and unwise for Nigeria to attempt to clean up France’s mess in Niger Republic.

“The French are the most rappacious, greedy, vicious, pervasive, destructive & unrelenting neo-colonial foreign power on the African continent. They have done nothing for Africa other than pillage, rape, undermine, plunder & take advantage of her. To deploy our military, go to war & allow Nigerian blood to be spilled just to help her to continue to gang rape the Nigeriens & subject them to slavery would be unjust, wicked, short-sighted, stupid & counter-productive,” he said.

He said a war against Niger would have implications for the stability of Nigeria, the entire sub-region and increasingly fruitful relationship with President Putin & the Russian Federation who are slowly emerging as Africa’s best friend, together with the Chinese.

He said the Russians and Chinese appear to be the only foreign power that truly seeks to assist & support the growth and development of African countries.

“To those who believe that Nigeria ought to continue to be the poodle, local enforcer & hatchet man of the French, the Europeans, the British & the Americans in our sub-region, I ask the following: who do they think is behind Boko Haram & ISWAP and why did these so-called Western allies refuse to sell us arms to fight those two terrorist organisations until Trump came along? And of course since Trump left we have been given nothing. Not one of them truly cares for Nigeria in the way the Chinese or Russians do & to them we are nothing but a source of mineral resources and a local sheriff.

“They want us to go & fight a war against our African brothers just to further and protect their own economic & regional interests and they want us to throw the West African sub region into a theater for a horrific, brutal & never-ending proxy war between them & Russia which would result in turning the whole of the West & North African sub region into a cauldron of fire.

“Worst still they want Northern Nigeria particularly & the entire African Sahel region & all the countries in it to be burnt to ashes & go the way of Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya & Afghanistan whilst they sell their arms, test their weapons, pillage our resources, turn our people into homeless destitutes & penniless refugees, destroy our collective future & serve our flesh & blood, on a dark satanic altar to the sinister forces & the blood-lustng vultures & demons that they work for & serve.

“We must never allow this to happen & if the truth be told, the biggest mistake that ECOWAS made in the first place was to threaten Niger with military action if the coupists refused to step down & restore President Bazoum to power. I say this because once a threat is issued & it is not followed up with action you look weak, ineffectual & pathetic. That is the quandry we are now in & the wisest thing to do at this point is to step back from the brink and rhetoric of war and engage in diplomacy. Deploying our troops into our neigbours country in an attempt to effect regime-change on behalf of a bunch of butt-f*cking, cunt-struck, power-obsessed feral psychopaths like the French whose primary dream and fantasy has always been the dismemberment, destabilisation and destruction of Nigeria is asinine and unacceptable.”