The governor of Ekiti
state, Ayodele Fayose, has dared President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest
him, describing the president as a dictator.
“They say he (Buhari) is coming after me, I am ready,”
Mr. Fayose said
in an interview on The Osasu Show.
During the interview, Mr. Fayose referenced the Holy Bible – Hebrew 13: 6
– and said “it is very clear that because we have God, we fear not what
men will do to us.”
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Ekiti governor and Buhari basher Ayodele Fayose
The governor, an unapologetic critic of Mr. Buhari, said not everybody
can belong to the same political party, and that he was entitled to his
view.
He said Mr. Buhari was still in an analogue stage, and that the
president was clueless on the nation’s economy.
“I am saying it expressly; the president does not understand the
economy.”
“If you understand the economy you can do everything simultaneously
without rocking the boat.
“You go out telling the whole world that your country is corrupt, you
destroy all your people, and you expect them (foreigners) to do business
with your people?
“That is not how to operate,” said Mr. Fayose.
The Ekiti governor insisted that President Buhari’s war against
corruption was in fact selective and political in nature.
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Buhari and Fayose have remained locked in a vicious war of words for
some time
“When (former Nigerian president) Obasanjo left prison, did he declare
his assets?
“The library Obasanjo has today, where did the money come from? His
house in Abeokuta, where did the money come from?
“Even Buhari himself declared cattle and mud houses. He said he doesn’t
have money. From where did the (presidential) campaign money come from?”
The governor also identified lack of electricity power and other
infrastructure, including lack of capital, as the major factors against
economic diversification in Nigeria.
“If I want to diversify, for instance, the money I got for last month
was N1.3 billion. And my wage bill is N2.6 billion, aside security,
electricity, water and basic essential services to the people,” he said.
“Do I use this money for diversification at the expense of the people?
No I can`t!
“So, it is an uphill task. It is not impossible, but it an uphill task,”
he said.
“My first counsel to the federal government is that they should stop the
noise about corruption, and face this economy.”
“They should be sincere more about the economy than playing to the
gallery,” governor Fayose said.