 Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode, switched sides. He announced his return to the all-progressive Congress yesterday. Now this comes barely two years after he described the party as darkness, which he will never associate with. Recall that in 2019, there was a speculation that he was considering joining the ruling party, to which he said, and I quote, APC is a sinking ship. He had accused the president, Major General Bohari, led regime of deceiving Nigerians with the anti-corruption war. Now that he's in the APC, he said he was just doing the right thing, and that he believed that it was time for him to cross over and join hands with the president in moving the country forward. Well, joining us to break this down is Bolaoba. He's a political analyst. Thank you very much, Mr. Oba for joining us. Pleasure to be here today. Yeah, let us examine the man, Femi Kayode, because he's a very interesting and very outspoken politician. We've seen and heard a lot from him in the past few years, and he's been very, very vocal about this government and the APC. But here we are today talking about him in the APC and somewhat taking back his words. Is Femi Kayode the poster child for the Abraid Nigerian politician, whether APC or PDP? He's the ultimate poster child of the ultimate iconic character of the opportunism that defines a political environment. To be very honest with you, any political environment where ideology is lacking, where conviction cannot be easily defined, where opportunism is the name of the game, and where the zeitgeist is wanting to be part of the shopping party. Shopping party. I guess there is no better character on the Nigerian political terrain today than defines such rabbit opportunism as Femi Kayode. But I mean, it's not that we... Yes, of course, a lot of people have put his feet to the fire, but he's not the only one who has moved to the APC. We've seen governors, we've seen senators. We even saw a member of the National Assembly, I think in the river states, move to the APC yesterday. There's been a mass movement of sorts. And it's not really new, these defections, even though most of the people who have defected at some point were badmouthing the APC. So should we even be making Femi Kayode out to look like the bad guy here? The unfortunate part of Femi Kayode is that, unlike many chieftains of state who perhaps moved to the APC to cover or to protect themselves or shield themselves from the partisanly-powered clag lights of EFCC, we know that those institutions are now literally used for partisan purposes. Many executive chieftains of state who have moved to the APC because they want to shield themselves from the investigative eyes or the partisanly-propelled investigative eyes of the EFCC, Femi Kayode is a consummate player and a seasonal master player or maestro of this kind of political opportunism when we're getting nearer. You must remember how it used to be a virulent critic, a virulent antagonist of the former president, Dr. Guglokabeli Junata. And when it was just about time, at about this season, during the last political calendar, he also jumped cheap and ultimately became the spokesperson of Dr. Guglokabeli Junata's failed election campaign. So I'm not surprised, but in his case, there are so many players, but why do we have to celebrate CR7? Cristian Ronaldo or Messi, because they're just good at what they do. Femi Kayode is the obvious face of the political maneuvering amongst Nigerian politicians. So it is. And it's actually quite disturbing and very perturbing that the president that claims to be integrity personified, that claims to be an agent of change. And someone who is consciously referred to as Mr. Integrity could be the one now that will literally open the doors of the most dignified residents in this country to a political lifer. You know, but that's the name of the game. We thought Guari was going to be different, but he's not telling us or showing us that in every material particular, he is as pedestrian as those that he was being counted to be better than. Let's go back to when the governor of Kogi State mentioned, in fact, he said it authoritatively that Femi Kayode had joined the APC. He came out and said, no, that's not possible. I mean, that he's not joined the APC again. Femi Kayode has in on joining the APC has started to wax lyrical. He's mentioned names of people he authoritatively believes are going to join the APC soon. He's mentioned one of the most thriving governors in the country, the Oyostek governor, Sheyh Makhinde, as one of those who would be joining the APC. And he's even talked about Balchi governor and Enugu governors joining the APC. He also took credit for some other people who have recently joined the APC. And I remember that particular member of the National Assembly speaking on another TV station saying that he would rather that Femi Kayode retract that statement because it's an insult on his person. So it makes us really wonder if there's any truth to what he said. I mean, about all the other people he's pointing to join the APC. The only thing that is consistent about Femi Kayode in his very short political life thus far has been his consistent inconsistency. I don't want to take anything he says with a grain of this thing. But I will say that we are somebody who is an ambassador of the age of poverty. So I am not one to who is going to be particularly taking any of these characters seriously because for Femi Kayode a couple of weeks ago was far more vehement in rejecting the proposition that he was going to join the APC than anybody's rebuttal that you are alluding to now. I would even be surprised if a former president that has been so reported although is yet to confirm it, so reported that he would be going to the APC. I wouldn't be surprised if he goes. We are dealing with men and women who lack conviction. We are dealing with men and women who can do anything to protect themselves from the incongruities that they have conducted while they are abusing the offices they own. So it's easy for them to take integrity for opportunities. We are dealing with characters. So let's be very honest with ourselves. The only startling part of it was that for a while some of us between 2014 and 2015 fully sleep-elived let me honor and apologize to Nigerians. Although I will review my support for him 2018-2019 went to me. He had defined himself as somebody whose presidency was ultimately going to fail. But between 2014 and 2015 I was one too who fully sleep-elived that it was a character that could function above his peers. Now I know it's just one of them. We have to go, unfortunately, time is not on our side. Balauba is a political analyst. Thank you so much for being part of this conversation. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today. All right. Okay. Well, thank you all for staying with us. We hope you enjoyed the conversations. We'll take a short break now and go through the highlights of this week and when we return, I'll be saying my goodbyes. My sister, I am equally at loss the way you are. In fact, as a person I am embarrassed by the lines of action taken by government or in the handling, in the manner in which the government is handling a lot of situations emanating from this fight against terrorism and banditry. I am at a loss. If security considered part of the, do I say, a report on which this government came into power, I expect to see far greater lines of actions that would at every point reassure the citizens that even if we are not making some impact, we have a government that cares. I really cannot understand what's happening. Frankly speaking, the UAE authorities have given us a list of 400 persons who are operators are said to be sponsors behind Boko Haram. Till now, we are still hesitant at bringing them to Boko Jesus Christ. Is it that some individuals in government know what we don't know? The management of information, I think is very, very poor in government today because we should have a focal point of somebody who is supposed to make statements when it comes to issues of security. I think the national security advisor should say something or the minister of defense, not the minister of police affairs, the minister of police affairs should be telling us about internal security and what police can do. Well, I'll tell you what the national security advisor has said lately. He has told iPop that they should stay clear of the Annambra elections. Is that the most important thing that the NSA should be discussing right now? Well, it concerns national security. It concerns national security because when we are trying to stop the political process, it's concerns national security. So, well, it's a place for him to tell them to stay away. If they are agitating for their own independence or whatever, I think there are other channels. And I think a lot of people in the south agree to this, that there should be other channels that disrupting violence is not just the answer. There was never evidence that those people at the door gates were armed. They even admitted. The military admitted, General Taiwo admitted that the protesters were not armed. Not to your question. I don't want us to be overoptimistic about what is going to be done by these findings. At the end of the day, the Judicial Commission of the Inquiry will submit its reports and make recommendations. Whether those recommendations will be implemented is a different thing entirely. But given the antecedents of this regime, I am convinced that it is very unlikely that any of those soldiers will ever be caught by the martial law put on trial. Because this is the regime that has shown itself unwilling to abide by the rule of law. A regime that has shown continuous content for human life. A regime that does not have any respect for international best practices and rules of engagement. So you don't expect that regime, a regime that has lied on record about the activities at the door gate, to now take a summer search and implement whatever finding this commission is going to make. I would say that the federal government did not also do well in some ways. Because if people are agitated at the beginning of this agitation, it will be shameful and sad if former President Donald Trump decides to join the APC out. I won't be surprised so to say, but it will be very, very sad and shameful of him to do that. Because if we go back and try to read through all the comments, all the abuses hauled at him by members of the APC that are now asking him to come and join them, as you said, are politicians suffering from dementia or something? Is there something that we're not aware of as people that the politicians are aware of? You know, because it's for me, it is completely unacceptable and does not hold water in a society that we all belong to. And that's the show for tonight and this week, of course, we will see you on Monday next week as the stories keep developing and as news breaks, we will be here talking for development. I am Mary Annicole and have a great weekend.