By Mufta’u Balogun
Femi Kuti, the first son of Afrobeat icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has told Vice President Yemi Osinbajo that he wont support his Principal, President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2019 elections.
Femi made this known while on stage with the Vice President at the grand finale of the annual musical show, ‘Felabration’, which held at the New Afrikan Shrine, Ikeja, Lagos.
Osinbajo was one of the dignitaries who attended the just concluded 2018 Felabration event in honour of the late Afrobeat legend’s 80th post humous birthday.
At the event, Femi told the crowd all that transpired earlier between him and the Vice President.
Femi, who spoke in Pidgin English said: “Vice President Osinbajo came to my house for support, na him dey stand for my front now o. I tell am say I no fit support Buhari because of my papa. He said he understands and he respects my view. But he’s my friend.”
In addition, he said: “He (Osinbajo) said he wanted to come to the Shrine to see what everybody is saying about the Shrine and I am happy that he came and saw that we are not crazy here. He said he didn’t know this place was this big.”
It would be recalled that President Buhari as a military dictator jailed Fela for being in possession of the sum of £1,600 meant for the band of 26 persons at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, while on his way to Europe for a scheduled concert.
Fela had after his incarceration released a hit song titled, “Beast of No Nation” where he called Buhari and his then deputy, Tunde Idiagbon ‘animals in human skin.’
He had also in the same song mocked Buhari’s War Against Indiscipline (WAI), arguing that it was crazy and irresponsible for a government to say his people were ‘useless’, ‘senseless’ and ‘undisciplined’
