A disturbing start to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode's tenure as aviation minister. His SSS guards shot in the air at the door of the federal secretariat during a fight with secretariat security men. They were moving in "electronic equipment" to Fani-Kayode's new office, when the security men asked to see proof that the stuff was Femi's and didn't belong to the government, or his old ministry.
There was definitely a fight, some people said they didn't hear the shots, but others say there was definitely shooting at the gate of the ministry building.
Fani-Kayode replaced Borishade as aviation minister this week. Borishade was widely seen as Obasanjo's friend, and a know-nothing on aviation matters. Fani-Kayode is OBJ's bulldog, and certainly does not have a history in aviation. He is on record as saying the ADC crash last month was “an act of God.”
Once OBJ's feircest critic, Fani-Kayode was given a job at the presidency as special advisor on media after a particularly vicious column in a newspaper.