Gov Fayose Reveals Why Buhari Has Refused To Release Nnamdi Kanu
Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s condemnation of Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire as a display of hypocrisy and an evident demonstration of his insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians.
Fayose wondered why President Buhari chose to
keep quiet for two days after Fulani herdsmen murdered over 300 people
in Benue, but immediately reacted to the killing of 16 people in Cote
D’Ivoire.
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor
said: “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.”
“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.”
“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 investigating 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.