South Africa needs ‘Sakiya’ diplomacy - Shehu Sani backs Fani-Kayode

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has thrown his value down Nigeria's ambassador to South Africa, Femi Fani-Kayode, describing him arsenic the close idiosyncratic to grip diplomatic relations with the state amid the increasing contention implicit his attraction by South African authorities.

Sani said South Africa needed idiosyncratic susceptible of responding appropriately to antithetic situations, depending connected the attack adopted by the different party.

The erstwhile lawmaker made the remark successful a station connected his X grip connected Sunday.

“Fani Kayode is the champion prime for South Africa astatine this worldly time. They request idiosyncratic who tin power to immoderate mode erstwhile the juncture demands for it. If you talk diplomacy you get diplomacy, if you talk ‘sakiya’ you get ‘Sakiya’,” helium wrote.

His remark comes amid increasing diplomatic hostility betwixt Nigeria and South Africa pursuing accusations by the Nigerian High Commission successful South Africa and the South African Presidency implicit the alleged exclusion of Nigeria's ambassador from a livestream of a diplomatic ceremony.

Fani-Kayode had accused the South African Presidency of deliberately excluding Nigeria's delegation from the livestream of the presumption of his missive of credence to President Cyril Ramaphosa connected Friday.

The ceremony, held successful Pretoria, progressive 15 ambassadors presenting ...