Another prominent ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo’s Minister and one time spokesperson, Chief Femi Fanny Kayode is under close radar for his plot to bribe a vocal section of the Nigeria media in order to kill a scandalous movement of $240,000 recently discovered on one Ms. Chioma Ansoh on her way to London.

Ms. Ansoh for a long time has been suspected to be romantically involved with the garrulous son of former Deputy Premier of the defunct Western Region, Chief Fanny Kayode, aka Fanny Power. Even when it is obvious that Nigeria’s first republic politicians were shamelessly corrupt, their children teeth continue to be set on edge. The amount alleged to have been set aside by Fanny Kayode is conservatively put at a modest N20 Million.

The minister’s rumored mistress was said to have assisted the Obasanjo’s associate in moving huge sums of money totaling about $8 Million in the past during several trips abroad. Obviously, things did not work according to premeditated plans during her last trip. According to the well known epublication, saharareporters.com, she was busted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Even all the “Fanny Powerful” connection could not redeem her.

Saharareporters.com had reported that the ex-minister who had breached protocols by not subjecting his mistress to the routine check and security clearance had followed his lover to the airplane. A dedicated custom officer who noticed the breach protested and when checks were conducted, the large sums popped out of the bag.

The former minister, according to Saharareporters on learning about the development had swiftly returned back to the airport to plead with the customs officials to keep the incident under wrap as he would not want to jeopardize a chance of joining the President Musa Yar’Adua’s cabinet.

Sources informed Pointblanknews.com that Fani-Kayode’s desperations stem from the fact that he had been promised by ex-President Obasanjo that he has been included among those to serve the Yar’Adua’s administration.

Already, aides of the former Aviation Minister are said to have started reaching out to some Nigerian Editors pleading that the publication of the $240,000 scandal may ruin the ex-ministers chances of being part of the new administration.

Besides ferrying large sums on behalf of Fani-Kayode, the mistress is said to be the one who send anonymous text messages to the former Minister’s perceived critics during his days of notoriety as Spokesman for President Obasanjo. One of the recipients of the text,

Colonel Abubakar Umar had received “God will punish you” on his cell phone when he criticized Fani-Kayode. Fanny Kayode compounded ex-President Obasanjo’s problems concerning the latter’s third term bid for the presidency. Fanny kayoed was always providing nebulous and embarrassing explanations for Obasanjo’s third term quest.

No one knows what clear justification he would have for his present attempt to placate the Nigerian media.

Appointment of children of Nigeria’s former politicians has always been a source of worry to the generality of Nigerians particularly in the case of Fanny Kayode who was rumored to have at one time been hooked on drugs while schooling in England and later upon return to Nigeria. His mental agility is not too clear.

Nigerians raised concern that ex-president Obasanjo and his cohort are trying to create an indelible political dynasty in Nigeria where if the original power player is no alive for recycling, then their ghost could be exhumed in their living offspring no matter how bad the legacies of the forebears.