Pantami is still an extremist, contracted Islamic TV to cover FG event__Ozekhome, Hundeyin

Popular Human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has joined the Nigeria freelance Journalist, David Hundeyin to say that the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami hasn’t changed, despite renouncing his radical pro-Taliban comments. Adding that he is unfit to oversee critical digital and telecommunications agencies of government.

The lawyer, in a statement made available to newsmen titled, ‘Isa Patami: The Leopard And Its Unchanging Spotso’, stressed that he hasn’t really changed as a “fanatic, fundamentalist and supporter of extremist Islamic sects”.

“Has he really changed? What has changed? Can a leopard ever change its spots? Ozekhome asked.

The senior advocate said last month, Pantami contracted an Islamic TV to cover a Federal Government event.

He added that “In saner climes, Pantami should have resigned immediately without more. Or be sacked forthwith.

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Lifting the veil of his purported transformation or assumed transfiguration is so easy when viewed against the background of his new acts even as Minister.

“Only recently, On March 22, 2021, Pantami’s Ministry hosted a virtual flag-off ceremony for a capacity development programme empowering 600 people with VSAT Installation Skills. Pantami himself was present and he even spoke at the event. It was a Virtual Flag-off Capacity Development Programme on VSAT Installation Skills and TVRO Systems for 600 youths by Pantami.

“Isa Pantami should resign, as Mrs Kemi Adeosun, former Finance Minister, once did. Where he fails to do this, Buhari should immediately relieve him of his ministerial position. His antecedents loudly proclaim him as a clear and present danger to Nigeria’s asphyxiating fragile unity, harmony and religious and ethnic tolerance,” Ozekhome concluded.