Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has revealed why he is so critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
The governor said he will continue to criticize any government in
Nigeria because it is a democratic country and democracy is about
opposition and the government in power.
In a recent interview with Vanguard, he said he started criticizing
Buhari before the election that brought him to power and he doesn’t
regret his actions.
Fayose said: “I actually told Nigerians not to vote for him
(Buhari), I made advertorials and I am still not sorry for that, I still
maintain my stand because I envisaged this disobedience of court orders
and dictatorship. Forget about those who rule Nigeria but we must be
governed by the rule of law.
“Those who promoted Buhari to be president, at one time or the
other later in this country, will regret, and most of them are already
regretting and suffering in silence because when you promote a lion and
you don’t remember to tame its claws and jaws, one day you will end up
in its stomach."
According to him, Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) were plotting to remove him from office.
“They made attempt to make my swearing in impossible but the
people rose against them, they went to ensure I was impeached but the
people rose against them, they made attempt to the Supreme Court to stop
me they were stopped; they are at it again, they want to use military
panel,” he said.
The Ekiti governor claimed that Buhari and his party were on the verge of destroying democracy in Nigeria, saying, “call it fighting corruption but they are on the verge of destroying democracy in Nigeria.”
He noted that any government that confronts him will crumble and
the day the Buhari-led administration faces him, his government will
come down. He added that Olusgeun Obasanjo, a former president of
Nigeria is an expired man who goes to beg every week at Aso Rock,
prostrating.
Speaking on the ongoing N2.1bn arms deal probe, Governor Fayose
said he is in support that corruption is fought but he wants Buhari to
probe beyond the tenure of former president, Goodluck Jonathan and look
at all the security votes under the National Security Adviser’s in
office in the last 16 years.
“I am telling you corruption is even higher under Buhari than
ever before. We cannot continue with this propaganda and I want to say
that Buhari should make public in the last 16 years, finance under the
NSA,” he said.
When asked if he was not scared for his life with the way he was opposing Buhari’s administration, he replied: “My
brother, forget that one! This year I am 55, I will be 56 next year. If
I die today, I have five sons; they will do a big party. People will
console them that your father lived an exemplary life, he was governor
twice.”
Just yesterday, the governor charged President Buhari to resign if he cannot solve the economic hardship in the country
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