Ayo Fayose, Ekiti state governor.
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has again attacked
President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of focusing on issues
pertaining to other countries, rather than dealing with the problems
facing the Nigeria.
He urged the president to pay more attention to security and economic
issues affecting Nigeria, describing his condemnation of Sunday’s
terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire as
“hypocritical and demonstration of insensitivity to the plight of
Nigerians”.
“If President Buhari could afford to pick his phone and call the
Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, immediately after the attack,
Nigerians must ask the President why he kept mute for days over the
Fulani herdsmen massacre of over 300 Agatu people of Benue State, the
Mile 12 Lagos killings and wanton destruction of properties among
others,” Mr. Fayose said on Tuesday in a statement signed by his Special
Assistant of Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.
He noted that it was strange that President Buhari was more concerned
with the killing of 16 people in Cote D’Ivoire than the Fulani
herdsmen’s murder of over 300 citizens of Nigeria.
Mr. Fayose said it was alarming that even when former Senate
President, David Mark, was attacked by the Fulani herdsmen last Saturday
when he went on inspection of the eight communities destroyed by the
Fulani herdsmen, there was no reaction from the president condemning the
terror attack.
“From all indications, our president has abandoned governance. The
only thing going on in the minds of those running the affairs of this
country in Abuja is how to entrench themselves in power by crushing
anyone perceived as capable of hindering them,” said Mr. Fayose.
“That is the reason they are using the Department of State Services
(DSS) to harass and intimidate us here in Ekiti, under flimsy excuses
like investigation of members of the State House of Assembly for alleged
forgery of tax certificates when the Ekiti State Government, which
issued the certificates have not complained to the DSS that its tax
certificates were forged by the lawmakers.
“That is also the reason the president keeps showing his anger
against Nnamdi Kanu and his Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB)
agitators while the same president has failed to approach the economy
and insecurity, especially the Fulani herdsmen menace with the same
level of anger.
“Even when their own Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, has told
Nigerians that the economy has gone out of the hands of the president,
they keep using anti-corruption fight to persecute opposition elements
both in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their own party, All
Progressives Congress (APC), forgetting that fighting corruption is not a
substitute for putting food on the table of Nigerians.
“The president must therefore be made to realise that Nigerians are
suffering, with price of foodstuffs skyrocketing. The economy is in
comatose, Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen are killing people. President
Buhari must learn to begin to cry over Nigeria’s problems first before
going to other countries to cry over their problems for them.”
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