by Akingbade Adesokan ThisDay Online, Wednesday 17th March. 2009 Unarguably, this is not the best of the season for the political dynasty of the immediate past President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, as the man whom he literally imposed on the nation, President Umar Musa Yar’ Adua has turned the searchlight on him using the state machinery to deal with him. Of the three arms of government, only the Judiciary could be said to be neutral on the undeclared war against the Ota farmer whose ‘holier than thou’ records have been shattered. Both the National Assembly and the Presidency have never found anything good in whatever left behind by Obasanjo administration as if most of them were not in the country during the “discredited era”.

by Raymond Alfred Sunday Tribune, Sunday 8th March. 2009 I read with great interest an article entitled: “Fani-Kayode deserves a breather” in Sunday Tribune, 22 Febuary, 2009, written by Captain Daniel Omale, the Technical Consultant to the Senate Committee on Aviation that probed the N19.5 billion Intervention Fund. It was a master piece and the writer must be commended for coming out with such audacious salient points on issues relating to the present persecution of Fani-Kayode. Any one that has been following the trend, the arrest and detention of this young politician would notice that the powers that be just want to humiliate him and ruin his political career for no just cause.

by Daniel Omale Leadership Nigeria, February 20th, 2009 For the past one year, the former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has been under intense stress from various quarters, especially his political colleagues. During the N19.5 billion aviation intervention probe, simply on the order of a powerful politician in government, Fani-Kayode, despite being the whistle blower and having been virtually exonerated from any misappropriation himself, was arrested and kept in custody of the EFCC for nearly 13 days, along with those blamed for the mismanagement of the funds. Shortly before Christmas last year, he was again arrested by the EFCC for some alleged lodging of over N230m during his stewardship as a minister in the past administration. He was detained throughout the Christmas period and only got bail shortly before the New Year.

Encomium Weekly, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, obviously, would have started regretting the day his path and that of one Chioma Anasoh crossed. The reason being that fresh facts emanating from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, his prosecutors, have it that it was the dark skinned lady that supplied all his financial secrets and dealings at the Aviation Ministry to the anti-graft agency.