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Who is Karl Ikemefuna Von Batten and what is he hiding?, By Femi Fani-Kayode

Is your dream and aspiration to be regarded and remembered as an American/German and not a Nigerian?

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I have been reliably informed that your ‘Von Batten’ surname came through your marriage to Elizabeth Von Batten… This curious state of affairs raises concerns about why a man whose records carry a Nigerian name, Ikemefuna Okeke, is publicly known as ‘Karl Von Batten.’.. Many are asking what type of man drops his father’s name and converts it to that of his spouse whose ancestry and name is clearly German?.. What are you hiding Ikemefuna? Do you want to be a German by force?

I attempted to stay out of this discussion but I found the whole matter so nauseating that I cannot in good conscience do so any longer.

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I advise Dr Karl Von Batten OR Dr Karl-Marx Edward Ikemefuna William George Okeke-Von Batten OR whatever his real name is to consider the following.

You and your self-styled American lobbyist and PR firm called ‘Von Batten-Montague-York LC’ have been trying so hard to get everyone’s attention.

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My email and the DM on all my social media handles have been flooded with the hogwash that you publish about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a daily basis by people from all over the world.

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Frankly you have constituted yourself into a distractive nuisance and source of mild irritation to many.

You are trying so hard to discredit our President and paint him as a mafia-like gangster and dangerous and callous villain, even though he has not been indicted or convicted of any crime by any court of law in America or anywhere else.

You even went as far as to publish the asinine, absurd, mendacious and foul falsehood that he sent an agent and associate of his to you in an attempt to invite you to London and bribe you with $3 million in return for your silence, without providing any tangible or concrete evidence.

That is the sordid level of lunacy, desperation and substance-induced fantasy that you have degenerated and resorted to.

I put it to you that if you actually believe what you have said on this attempted bribery allegation, then you are clearly seeing things and hearing voices that do not belong in this realm and I therefore have every reason to question, not just your integrity, but also your sanity.

If this is the case, I implore you, in the name of God, to get help before it is too late, as you continue to embarrass yourself because, despite our differences, I wish you the very best and good health.

Yet you soldier on regardless and keep pushing your stale and increasingly boring fables as hard and frantically as you can.

You appear to have forgotten that, as the saying goes, ‘the harder they come, the harder they fall.’

You and your company, together with those that you represent and that are sponsoring and encouraging you, have certainly come very hard against President Tinubu and you shall SURELY fall equally hard, never to rise again.

You are so hell bent on demonising him and I wonder why, if you are so sure of your case, you can’t just wait for the court proceedings to be concluded, for the Judge to deliver her ruling and for the 2027 elections to take place.

The reality is that you know that nothing will come of it and like my friend and brother, the Honourable Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Festus Keyamo rightly said, it is “a storm in a tea cup” that is “going nowhere.”

Outside of that, no one is loosing any sleep over the ongoing disclosure case in the United States that you appear to be obsessed with or the legal mumbo jumbo, disjointed verbiage, and empty threats that you constantly spew about reporting anyone and everyone that opposes your views and relentless onslaught to the American Congress, the FBI, and the Trump White House.

Like most of us I have every confidence that the American judiciary will do the right thing, uphold the rule of law, ensure that good sense and justice prevails; uphold the submissions of the FBI, the DEA, and President Tinubu himself; uphold the latter’s legitimate rights to privacy and not play into the slick and sleazy hands of you, your client, Aaron Greenspan, who initiated the proceedings, and all those that are egging you on.

You see President Tinubu’s destiny and fate is not in your hands but rather in the hands of God and the Nigerian people.

No matter how many X messages you post, how many names you drop, how connected you are, how many irrational and nonsensical outbursts you make or how much you are being paid, you CANNOT stop him or destroy him.

Given your psychotic obsession with this matter, which clearly goes beyond the norm and which is indicative of your malevolent intent and the malice you bear towards our President, I am constrained to give you a little of my time and join the fray by saying the following.

I have been reliably informed that your ‘Von Batten’ surname came through your marriage to Elizabeth Von Batten.

This curious state of affairs raises concerns about why a man whose records carry a Nigerian name, Ikemefuna Okeke, is publicly known as ‘Karl Von Batten.’

Many are asking what type of man drops his father’s name and converts it to that of his spouse whose ancestry and name is clearly German?

What are you hiding Ikemefuna? Do you want to be a German by force?

Or is your dream and aspiration to be regarded and remembered as an American/German and not a Nigerian?

Is there something in your history or past that you do not want us to know?

Are you are ashamed of your ancestry and heritage or is it that you are just a gutless coward?

Perhaps it could be both.

Or is it that your father disowned you and insisted that you stop using his family name?

Whatever the case, it appears that in your marriage you are the wife and your wife is the husband.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she wears male boxer shorts under her skirt, whilst you wear female underwear under your trousers.

Surely no one can trust a man who hides his true name and identity and instead uses that of his wife and who insists on wearing a woman’s dress.

Whatever the case the truth is that, at best, you are a shady character and, at worse, you are a seasoned scammer.

If this were not the case, how did you manage to fool His Excellency Abubakar Atiku, the great Wazirin Adamawa, into paying you $1.2 million for pursuing a futile cause and treading a fruitless path that will lead to nowhere and end in NOTHING!

I guess you misled him and probably assured him that, as the final cherry on the cake, you will get him an audience, with red carpet treatment and the full works, at the White House, and that you will throw in a walk in the Rose garden, a meeting in the Oval Office, a seat at the Resolute Desk, and a walz in the newly-constructed White House Ball Room.

In case I forget to ask, kindly tell me what schools and Universities, if any, you attended?

You claim to have graduated from Oxford, Colombia, Harvard, Cornell, NYIT and others, but there appears to be no public record or confirmation of this.

Neither is there any publicly verified list of schools that you actually attended.

This seems strange given the fact that you have such a high profile and suffer from what can best be described as narcissistic tendencies.

Needless to say, despite your constant boasting about who you know, who you work for, and what you claim you can do, and in spite of your crass insolence and insufferable arrogance, you and your grotty little PR firm will fail in your vile and vicious onslaught against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu because your claims are false and your petition is a big fat NOTHING-BURGER.

Outside of your wild fantasies, infantile assertions, puerile delusions and masturbatuary dreams you have NOTHING, you are NOTHING and you will end up with NOTHING!

Femi Fani-Kayode is a former Minister of Culture and Tourism, a former Minister of Aviation, the Ambassador-Designate of Nigeria to South Africa Lesotho and Estawani, the Sadaukin Shinkafi, the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, the Otunba of Joga Orile, the Aare Ajagunla of Otun Ekiti, and a legal practitioner.

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