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were also surreptitiously introducing an entirely new and alien system of government into
Nigeria, destroying democracy and attempting to perpetuate themselves in power through that new system indefinitely. He argued that this was being done by the authorities even where it was clear that the president was already "half dead". Fani-Kayode defined his concept of corpsology (or "corpsocracy" as he sometimes calls it) as "the rulership of the living by the dead" and the thrust and intent of his satire was to clearly convey the message that the attempt to introduce this hitherto unknown system of government into Nigeria by Yar'Adua, his wife and his cabinet was unacceptable and should not be allowed to stand.
341:-trained lawyer Chief Tunde Edu and others, he played a very active role in the pro-democracy campaign against the military regime of Abacha. He came back to Nigeria in 2001 and met President Olusegun Obasanjo. At the beginning of 2003, Femi Fani-Kayode was appointed by the President as a member of his presidential campaign team for the 2003 presidential election. After President Obasanjo won that election, Femi Fani-Kayode was appointed as the first ever Special Assistant on Public Affairs to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In 2006, he was appointed as the Honorable Minister of Culture and Tourism. That same year, after a minor cabinet reshuffle, he was re-deployed to the
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369:(EFCC) in July 2008, in connection with alleged misappropriation of a 19.5 billion naira (approx. $ 300,000,000) "Aviation Intervention Fund." The investigation found no evidence against him. The Senate Committee on Aviation in early 2008, initially recommended that Fani-Kayode be banned from holding public office for five years but later withdrew it.
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and titled it "Corpsology: Umaru's Gift To The Modern World". In the article Fani-Kayode suggested that by insisting on ruling
Nigeria from his sick bed in Saudi Arabia and through his acolytes and wife, the President and his supporters were not just breaching the Nigerian constitution but that they
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on medical grounds (during which time no
Nigerian other than his wife and his chief security officer saw him or any pictures of him), there were strong speculations in the country that the president was dead, was in a deep coma or was so sick that he could not speak or get up from his sick bed in his
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Kayode had fought the case since 2008 was accused by the EFCC to have laundered about N100m while he was
Minister of Culture and Tourism and subsequently Aviation Minister. The allegedly laundered sum was however reduced to N2.1m on 17 November 2014 after Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia, dismissed 38 out of
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to face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Fani-Kayode had been the spokesman of
President Obasanjo at that time, and in his essay he gave an account of how Taylor was betrayed by a number of parties and nations and detailed what he described as the "treacherous and ignoble" roles that
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In his victory press statement, Fani-Kayode changed his name from
Oluwafemi Fani-Kayode to Olufemi Olu-Kayode (meaning "the Lord brings joy"). According to him, this was done as a mark of gratitude to God following his acquittal of all the remaining money laundering charges that were brought against
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Fani-Kayode was discharged and acquitted on 1 July 2015, by a
Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on the two-count charge of money laundering preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The court held that the EFCC was unable to prove the charges against Fani-Kayode
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Fani-Kayode was arrested in
December 2008 by the EFCC and charged with 47 counts of money laundering. Fani-Kayode stated that he was innocent and that the monies were funds received from his own private businesses and legitimate sources and had nothing to do with government funds. He said that the
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Femi Fani-Kayode has been married four times. His first marriage was to Saratu "Baby" Atta in 1987 and they were divorced by 1990. They had one child, Oluwafolake. The second marriage was to Yemisi
Olasunbo Adeniji in 1991 but they were divorced by 1995. They have three daughters whose names are
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and other former heads of government, former cabinet ministers, former legislators, leading opposition figures and leading members of the ruling PDP party by publicly calling for the resignation of
President Yar'Adua and for the transference of power to Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan at that
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In November 2009, before Yar'Adua fell ill, Fani-Kayode wrote a poem titled "I Stand and I Fight". In this poem, he described Yar'Adua as a "sickly tyrant with an amalekite foundation" and he predicted that "his end would soon come". Fani-Kayode wrote other poems over the last few years.
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389:. Yar'Adua's loyalists resisted this suggestion and part of their response to that challenge was to implement another strategy to try to silence and intimidate President Obasanjo and his key loyalists, including El-Rufai, Fani-Kayode, Ribadu, Lawal Batagarawa,
506:, resisted the suggestion that the vice-president should take over power while the President was incapacitated even though this was what the Nigerian constitution prescribed, Fani-Kayode added his voice to that of President Obasanjo, President
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him by the EFCC. Fani-Kayode had fought the case since 1 July 2008 and he was finally cleared of all the remaining charges that had not been dismissed earlier on 1 July 2015. This was 7 years to the day after his ordeal first started.
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which claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of Nigerians in a campaign of terror and bombing in their quest to ban western education and set up an Islamic fundamentalist caliphate in the whole of northern Nigeria".
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from July 2003 to June 2006. He was appointed the Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 22 June to 7 November 2006, and the Minister of Aviation from 7 November 2006 to 29 May 2007.
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from Nigeria, where he had been given refuge and asylum after a bitter war and crisis in his nation Liberia. Fani-Kayode explained how Taylor ended up being handed back to Liberia and how he was then sent to the
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On 7 August 2010 Fani-Kayode wrote another article titled "Charles Taylor: A Man Betrayed" in which he described the events and circumstances leading up to the extradition of the infamous former President of
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of Liberia played in the saga. He accused both America and Liberia of reneging on their word and on an earlier agreement on the Taylor issue and he alleged that they "betrayed the confidence" that the
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as the Minister of Aviation. Since the end of the tenure of President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration on 29 May 2007, Femi Fani-Kayode has gone back to the private sector and to his legal practice.
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Saudi Arabian hospital. This resulted in a power vacuum in Nigeria as a consequence of which a constitutional crisis began to unfold. The President's supporters and cabinet ministers, led by his wife
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in which he claimed that "hundreds of thousands of defenceless and innocent Iraqi women and children" were killed. The article was published the day after the sensational appearance of super-model
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at The Hague for what he described as "similar crimes against humanity" as the ones that Taylor was being accused of. He alleged that they had committed these crimes during the illegal invasion of
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investigations of the Yar'Adua government and the EFCC were politically motivated, and he was being persecuted in the same way as other colleagues from the Obasanjo government, such as
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who had jailed Obasanjo on similar charges when he was in power. General Obasanjo was released and pardoned a number of years later after Abacha died and after General
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critical time. To convey his view Fani-Kayode wrote a satire in
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Fani-Kayode discharged and acquitted of money laundering charges
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1213:"BREAKING: At Last Femi Fani-Kayode Discharged & Acquitted"
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beyond reasonable doubt and consequently acquitted him.
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705:"Femi Fani-Kayode- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff"
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1774:"Fani-Kayode's wife delivered of a set of triplets"
1639:"The Death of Tafawa Balewa: the Segun Osoba angle"
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1107:"Yar'Adua will send Obansanjo to prison – El Rufai"
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1611:"Femi Fani-Kayode: Who Killed Sir Tafawa Balewa?"
1242:Ezigbo, Onyebuchi; Akinsuyi, Yemi (2 July 2015).
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1464:"Yar'Adua: National and global pressure mounts"
1462:Ojeifo, Sufuyan; Ohia, Paul (29 January 2010).
795:Muraina, Funso; Ogbu, Ahamefula (3 July 2008).
118:David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode
49:David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode
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1524:"Corpsology: Umaru's gift to the modern world"
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1718:"Between Igbo, Yoruba and the Nigerian Women"
1667:"Obasanjo, Yar'Adua, Buhari And Power Sector"
1161:"Fani-Kayode arrested by EFCC | The Sun News"
670:"The Truth About the Motion for Independence"
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1772:Abimbola, Oluwakemi (25 May 2018).
1751:"First photos of Fani-Kayode's son"
1579:Fani-Kayode, Femi (9 August 2010).
1190:www.vanguardngr.com (1 July 2015).
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829:"Borishade, Iyayi in fresh trouble"
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889:. Pointblank News. 7 December 2010
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