It was a gathering of who is who in the country on Friday as the son of President Muhammadu Buhari, Yusuf, married Zahra, daughter of the Emir of Bichi, Nasiru Ado Bayero.
However, one notable guest at the wedding was the controversial member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Femi Fani-Kayode, who hobnobbed with Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, whom he once described with unprintable names.
In photos shared on his Facebook page on Thursday, Fani-Kayode disclosed that he flew into Kano yesterday, a day before the wedding ceremony.
Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation from November 2006 to May 2007, also grinned sheepishly as he posed in photos with APC members, governors and ministers including Pantami, whom he suddenly described as his “friend and brother”.
“Flew into Kano with my friends and brothers Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state, Governor Babagana Umar Zulum of Borno State, Senator Sani Ahmed Yarima, Senator Ali Ndume, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda, Hon. Minister Isa Pantami, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and others for the wedding ceremony of President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf Buhari, to HRH Nasiru Ado Bayero, the Emir of Bichi’s daughter, Zahra Ado Bayero.
“The flight was great and we thank God for journey mercies. Kano is a massive, pulsating city which is steeped in tradition and history.
“It is a pleasure and a joy to be here. Will keep you posted,” FFK wrote on Facebook.
The ex-minister’s fond appellation was a sharp contrast to what he had labelled Pantami in a piece in April.
Fani-Kayodehad lampooned Pantami, a member of the presidential cabinet from Gombe State, for his extremist Salafist views and sympathy for the Taliban, currently on the rampage in faraway Asia, precisely in Afghanistan.
