The Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, on Tuesday hit
back at Mr. Femi Fani-Koyede, describing
him as an ignorant individual,
who “should hide his head in shame.”Fani-Kayode, a former minister of
Aviation, had criticised the Peoples
Democratic Party for expressing confidence in Oduah despite the air crashes
that had happened during her tenure
as minister.
“How many more people have to be killed in air crashes
before our President (Dr. Goodluck Jonathan)
realises that he needs a new Minister of Aviation?” Fani-Kayode had
asked. But Oduah said in Abuja that
Fani-Kayode was misleading innocent Nigerians and needed sympathy. She spoke at
an aviation safety event organised by the Civil Air Navigation Services
Organisation and hosted by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency.
Oduah said, “I have
huge sympathy for them, the ignorant people in particular. Because when you
speak out of context, when you speak under the influence of whatever it is you
are under, you speak incorrectly and you mislead innocent Nigerians and that is
what he has done. And he really should hide his head in shame.” Fani-Kayode,
while reacting to Oduah’s comments about him, asked the minister to grow up and
stop being petty.
He said, “My advice and counsel to her is to grow up and
stop being petty. She is meant to talk like someone who befits her office and
not like a market woman or a fish wife. “I do not like joining issues with
women publicly which is why I was very gentle with her in my essay though I
made my point.
“But this particular woman is endangering the lives of our
people with her incompetence and insensitivity and we cannot just keep quiet. “This
is a woman under whose watch almost 200 people have been killed as Aviation
Minister and instead of focusing on how to save lives her obsession has become
smearing and abusing Femi Fani-Kayode.”
He said it was wrong for the minister to tell Nigerians that
‘’accidents are inevitable’’ and that they were ‘’acts of God.”
“This is a woman who thinks more about how her headscarf
looks, her jewelry and the jewelry of others more than she does about
protecting Nigerian air travellers,” he added. He said if anyone should bury
her head in shame it should be the minister and not him.
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