Vector Blasts Fani-Kayode For Insulting Journalist

Popular Nigerian rapper, Vector has blasted Femi Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister, for hurling insults at a Daily Trust journalist, Eyo Charles.

Charles, had yesterday (Tuesday, August 25, 2020), asked Fani-Kayode who was bankrolling him for his tour in some South-South and South-East states, when the former minister lost his cool.

During my tour of the South and after a long and successful press conference in Calabar, Cross Rivers state, a journalist put up his hand for the last question and said,

"Well we do not know who is bankrolling you".

This is not a question but an assertion and an insult…1/4 pic.twitter.com/uWImIknjN3

— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) August 25, 2020

Sharing a video of the clip, Vector opined that the politician had no right whatsoever to speak to a fellow man in such unruly manner.

“The fact that you say you are not like the ‘brown envelope skin boys and girls’, doesn’t mean you have to right to speak to a man like if you engaged him in a fight you would exhibit the same energy. Sit down. You lack manners,” he wrote on Twitter.

The fact that you say you are not like the “brown envelope skin boys and girls”, doesn’t mean you have to right to speak to a man like if you engaged him in a fight you would exhibit the same energy. Sit down. You lack manners. https://t.co/GyqKTNY4Vv

— T.E.S.L.I.M (@VectorThaViper) August 25, 2020

Fans have however gathered in the comment section since Vector’s post to give various opinion on his words on the former minister.

In a subsequent post, the rapper refused to slow down as he went further to say Fani-Kayode “lacks understanding.”

Vector added, “He doesn’t have to defend himself via any form of anxiety. He asked simply, he should respond in his understanding of what ‘simple’ means. He lacks understanding.”

He doesn’t have to defend himself via any form of anxiety. He asked simply, he should respond in his understanding of what “simple “ means. He lacks understanding https://t.co/WsGs1Au3Mx

— T.E.S.L.I.M (@VectorThaViper) August 25, 2020

Meanwhile, Fani-Kayode has apologised for his behaviour, which caused an uproar among journalists and other members of the public.

I met with my advisors & I wish to say the following. I hereby withdraw the word "stupid" which I used in my encounter with a journalist in Calabar. I have many friends in the media who I offended by losing my cool & using such words. I hereby express my regrets for doing so.1/4

— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) August 26, 2020

Written by Praise Shogbade