Ebun Francis || The governor of Ekiti State and long time critic of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ayodele Fayose, has for the up-teenth time asked the President to resign from office or in the alternative be appointed Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs since he has refused to return to the country.
The loquacious governor of Ekiti State made the comments at a forum organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.
He accused the ruling APC government of deliberately excluding him from the governors that visited the President recently in London because they knew he will return to tell Nigerians the truth.
He said, “Why did they not take me to London. Why didn’t they take me there? They obviously knew very well that I would listen to the man and know whether his voice is clear or not. Then, I would be able to tell Nigerians the truth.”
“Leadership must come with a certain measure of strength. If you don’t have strength, how can you govern the country?
“So, we need a president that is hale and hearty. If our president doesn’t want to go, let him become the minister of foreign affairs in London. These are statements of fact.”
The Ekiti state governor while commenting on the recent supreme court ruling on the PDP crisis, accused Buruji Kashamu, Senator representing Ogun East of conniving with Sheriff to work against the interest of the PDP, calling him a blackleg.
“I am not one of the people who will tell the APC that it is a good party. They are only deceiving you. The only thing they do is to see that the PDP die ahead of 2019 but the average man on the street can see and they can measure the difference,” he said.
“They cannot wait for elections in 2019 to get rid of these people because they are tired of them.
“The crisis in the PDP started from Ogun state when they didn’t allow Gbenga Daniel to succeed himself. We thought it was a joke; gradually the monster started moving from one state to another.
“A blind man cannot lead us with money that has no source. How can a PDP member be praising President Muhammadu Buhari and condemning Fayose? I cannot blame him because his family has never produced a governor.
“Since he went to the Senate, he has not spoken a word. I cannot be in a marriage where the woman is meeting with another man. Buruji is a blackleg in the PDP. He has done bad things to the party and we cannot be with him again. How can he be asking for the party structure in the South-West? I identify with Ogun stakeholders but not Buruji.”
