Forgery Allegation: Fresh trouble as court threatens to declare former Minister wanted

The special offences court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos state has issued a fresh threat to Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation.

The court on Wednesday, May 24, threatened to declare FFK, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), wanted if he fails to appear on the next adjourned date for his trial.

Justice Olubumni Abike-Fadipe frowned upon the constant non-appearance of the defendant, noting that the last time he was in court was November 4, 2022, Channels TV reported.

Fani-Kayode is standing trial on 12 counts bordering on the use of false documents, use of fabricated evidence, procuring the execution of documents by false pretence and fabricating evidence. He pleaded “not guilty” to the charge when he was first arraigned on December 17, 2021.

A former aviation minister in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, has accused the United States of “double standards, neo-colonialism and pseudo-imperialism”.

Writing on his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, FFK, as he is fondly called, asked the Nigerian government to reciprocate and consider imposing visa bans on persons who disrupted their country’s elections over the last 25 years.

Furthermore, in a veiled criticism of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, Fani-Kayode said it is ironical for the US president's administration to issue a visa ban on selected Nigerians for rigging because ‘he (Biden) has been accused of the most blatant and shameful election rigging in the history of their country by no less than his predecessor in office and millions of his fellow countrymen’.

Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has mocked Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s presidential candidate, in the 2023 presidential election.

Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister, said Nigerians owed the former vice president gratitude for single-handedly burying the PDP in Nigeria.

The chieftain of the APC made the comment in a Twitter post on Friday, May 12.