A former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday criticised the Muhammadu Buhari administration, saying it is fond of appeasing terrorists, instead of eliminating them.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Fani-Kayode’s comments comes after Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Salafi-jihadist group al-Qaeda and successor of late Osama bin Laden, was killed by a United States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday.
Al-Zawahiri, who had helped to plan the September 11 attacks on the U.S., had gone into hiding following the attacks, and was located by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) months before the assassination. After receiving authorisation from U.S. president Joe Biden to initiate the strike, the CIA fired two Hellfire missiles on the balcony of al-Zawahiri’s house, killing him.
“The Americans killed Osama Bin Ladin, AbuBakr Al Baghdadi and now Ayman Al Zawahiri. Kudos!
“In Nigeria we do not kill terrorists: we beg them, pay them, appease them, reward them, bow before them, give them chieftaincy titles and let them break into prison to free their brothers,” Fani-Kayode wrote on his verified Twitter handle.
