A Nigerian lawyer, Kehinde took to Twitter to make an uncommon claim of seeing Femi Fani-Kayode’s dad, Chief Remilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode, in a London prison.
According to the Nigerian lawyer, though Wikipedia says Femi Fani-Kayode’s dad is dead however he saw an old 91-year-old man serving his time when he visited Belmarsh prison in London. His tweets reads;
Please Nigerians Who’s Remi Fani-Kayode? Is He Femi Fani Kayode’s Father? If He Is Then I’m Confused As I Visited The Belmarsh Prison In London & Saw This Old 91 Yr Old Man Remi Serving His Time Yet Wikipedia Says He’s Dead Did He Fake His Death Or What?
Chief Remilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode, Q.C., S.A.N, C.O.N (1921-1995) was a leading Nigerian nationalist, elder-statesman, lawyer and politician. He was elected Deputy Premier of the Western region of Nigeria in 1963 and he played a major role in Nigeria’s legal history and politics from the late 1940’s right up until 1995. He hails from a prominent and well educated Yoruba family who are of Ife stock from South-Western Nigeria.
He set up a formidable, militant and combative youth wing for the party who wore “black shirts” and used the “mosquito” as their emblem in order to reflect their disdain for British colonial rule. Again in 1954, he was elected into the Federal House of Assembly on the platform of Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group and he continued his fight for Nigeria’s Independence from there. He however died in 1995.
