Fani-Kayode Reacts As US Imposes Visa Restriction on Nigerian Politicians
Category: Nigeria News
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
Femi Fani-Kayode
has reacted to a move by the United States to impose visa ban on Nigerians who
undermined the recently-concluded general elections in the country.
Recall the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on
Monday, revealed that the US government has imposed visa restrictions on
specific individuals for allegedly undermining democracy during the elections.
Some stakeholders had challenged the US government to uncover the
affected politicians.
Reacting,
Fani-Kayode,
in a statement on Tuesday, said the development was nothing to worry about,
stressing that only the Nigerian court can determine if the poll was in any
way rigged.
The statement reads in part, “Those that have imposed a
visa ban on some “selected Nigerians” for allegedly “undermining democracy”
and “rigging elections” are perfectly within their rights to do so because it
is their country and they can do as they please.
“We should lose no
sleep over that because the Nigerian people, a great and sovereign people who
belong to a great and sovereign nation, spoke loudly and clearly and made
their legitimate choices during the course of a set of free, fair and credible
elections.
“Wherever any of those elections may have been rigged
or democracy undermined can only be properly determined by our election
tribunals and courts after all the facts and evidence have been adduced,
examined and determined and not by any distant and/or partisan foreign
government or power.
“It is also my view that foreign policy, which
ought to be based on the principle of equality of nations and conducted on the
basis of reciprocity, requires the Nigerian Federal Government to consider the
possibility of doing the same to nationals of those that have implemented and
announced this measure and issue a visa ban to any foreign citizen or member
of any corporate entity or institution that may have indulged in undermining
democracy or rigging elections in either their own or any other country in the
world over the last 25 years”.
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