 ADO-EKITI Following the buffet of criticisms trailing his death wish for the All
Progressives Congress (APC)
presidential candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, the Ekiti State
Governor, Ayo Fayose, has said he has nothing personal against the former
head of state. The governor, who spoke on
Thursday through a statement issued
by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu
Adelusi, said he is not wishing Buhari
dead as widely believed in many
quarters, but maintained that the APC presidential flag bearer is too old to
govern a complex country like
Nigeria. Fayose explained that he is opposed
to the emergence of Buhari as
president because Nigerians do not
deserve a leader that will govern by
proxy. The Ekiti governor said his experience
as chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) ad hoc committee which
shopped for a suitable presidential
candidate for the party in the run-up
to the 2007 presidential election informed his opposition to Buhari’s
candidature. He revealed that his committee did not
recommend the late President Umaru
Yar’ Adua, whom he said initially
rejected the offer before he (Yar’Adua)
was allegedly opposed by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo. Fayose said the criticisms trailing his
mode of campaign for the re-election
of the PDP candidate, President
Goodluck Jonathan, are unnecessary,
accusing the APC leaders promoting
Buhari’s candidature as insincere. The governor, who said he owed
nobody any apology for exposing the
hypocrisy of APC leaders, accused
them of placing personal interests far
above national interests. He alleged that the APC had not only
packaged lies and tried to foist such
on Nigerians, but had compromised
the Independent National Electoral
Commission to rig the elections if it had
held on February 14. Going down the memory lane on how
the late Yar’Adua was preferred by
Obasanjo, Fayose said he does not
want the events that took place in the
PDP presidential primary in December
2006 to be re-enacted in 2015. Fayose said: “I remember then as the
ad hoc chairman of the PDP committee
that shopped for the presidential
candidate to replace former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, a crop of suitable,
brilliant, healthy and competent northern politicians in the PDP were
shortlisted by me for Obasanjo to pick
from, but he overruled the list and
asked me to contact the late Umaru
Musa Yar’ Adua because he preferred
him. “In fairness to the late president, he
objected to the offer on health
ground, but Obasanjo insisted that he
must be the president.
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LUNATIC FAYO

there are no elders in Ekiti

........Who's deceiving who.