\u201cOutside of that, your insolence and ignorance know no bounds. You are bringing your nation into disrepute and willfully and purposely burning the bridge of peace and reconciliation. That is a matter of concern to us. The only thing that is inappropriate is the shameful way that you and your team behaved,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n
The comment was a response to Mr Magwenya\u2019s X post, which was directed toward Mr Fani-Kayode.<\/p>\n
The Nigerian High Commissioner, on Friday, accused the South African presidency of cutting off the live stream during his speech at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria, where he presented his credentials to President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nPREMIUM TIMES reported<\/a><\/strong> that Mr Fani-Kayode, also accredited to Lesotho and Eswatini, said he was the only one of the 15 ambassadors given the stage to speak whose live stream was cut off.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be clear, we were the ONLY ones that were left out. Clearly, some elements in South Africa do not want to hear what we have to say or see our faces, but we are here to stay as long as we are welcome and have the confidence of President Ramaphosa, which I am sure we do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The South African presidential spokesperson responded<\/a><\/strong> to Mr Fani-Kayode, stating that the event was livestreamed by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), whose operations are not controlled by the presidency.<\/p>\n Mr Magwenya said the SABC is a public broadcaster, and that the \u201cPresident does not interfere with its operations or intervene in its editorial processes.\u201d<\/p>\n He accused Mr Fani-Kayode of misrepresenting the facts.<\/p>\n He also said, \u201cI would encourage you, as you start your tenure in South Africa, to meet with SABC to forge a mutually beneficial, respectful and professional relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n However, hours after Fani-Kayode\u2019s allegations, the SABC uploaded<\/a><\/strong> a separate video featuring his speech on its website.<\/p>\n Joining the diplomatic spat, the Nigerian High Commission accused<\/a><\/strong> Mr Magwenya of trying to heighten diplomatic tension between the states by \u201cadding fuel to the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA few months ago you, as spokesman to the President of the Republic of South Africa, described our President and the President of Ghana as peddlers of fake news after they expressed their deep and legitimate concerns about Afrophobia and Xenophobia in your country.<\/p>\n \u201cWe let that one go and ignored you. Today, you are calling our newly accredited Ambassador to your country a liar, barely a few hours after he presented his letters of credence.<\/p>\n \u201cYou also claim that he has disgraced our country simply because he complained to your President about a slight which your media team subjected him and our nation to.<\/p>\n \u201cWe also have the full video clip of the proceedings after the pictures were taken which, if and when we are given the go-ahead to do so, we shall release,\u201d the High Commission said.<\/p>\n Relations between Nigeria and South Africa grew tense after a new wave of xenophobic violence broke out in April and has since been linked to the death of at least 12 Nigerians.<\/p>\n Mr Fani-Kayode, first deployed to Germany as ambassador, said he asked to be redeployed to South Africa because it was more \u201cproximate to my political thinking when it comes to foreign affairs and a pan-African vision.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n Source: <\/p>\n In the last 24 hours, the Nigerian and South African governments have been trading words over the exclusion of Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa Femi Fani-Kayode\u2019s speech from the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}READ ALSO:\u00a0Xenophobia: Nigeria demands probe into killing of three Nigerians in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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