Say the Governor lacks rights to criticise Buhari’s
appointments.

The Ekiti State Council of the Nigeria
Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, NSCIA,
has faulted the state governor, Mr. Ayodele
Fayose over criticisms bothering on the
appointments made so far by President
Muhammadu Buhari.
A press release issued by the council in Ado
Ekiti, the state’s capital alleged that the
governor had subjected Muslims in the State
to forms of deprivation since he assumed
office.
The group wondered why Fayose, who
marginalised Muslims in the State could
muster the guts to accuse the president of
lopsidedness when Muslims had no place in
the appointments so far made by the his
administration in Ekiti State.

Full text of the release below:

The attention of Muslims in Ekiti State had
been drawn to the press release by Mr. Lere
Olayinka, the Senior Special Assistant to
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on
Public Communication and New Media, in
which the Governor reacted to what he saw
as lopsided appointments by President
Muhammadu Buhari.
While Muslims in Ekiti State concede to Mr
Governor the right to air his opinion as
enshrined in the country’s constitution, we
are however bemused that the Governor who
had continuously subjected Muslims in his
own State to various forms of deprivation
since he assumed office 7 months, 18 days
ago could have the temerity to condemn
perceived action of deprivation by any other
government. According to our Governor,
President Buhari had appointed 31 people
into various offices out of which only 7 are
from the southern part of the country.

Fair as this observation may appear, we feel
it may interest the listening public to know
what this same Governor that is now calling
the kettle black is doing in his own State.
The Governor spurs Muslims in the State to
react with his references to lopsided
appointments and the alleged infraction of
the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria in his statement. Before now,
people were of the opinion that the
Governor was oblivious of the constitutional
imperatives when he was making his
appointments and the Muslims were virtually
left out. When efforts were made by the
State Muslims to see and advice him
properly, he ignored us.
The Governor in his statement described the
actions of President Buhari as “tinted in
ethnic and tribal coloration”. He then posited
that “if such step is not checked, it will
threaten the unity of Nigeria”. The portions
of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, which
governor Fayose was referring to are
Sections 14 (4) and 15 (2). While Section 14
(4) stated inter alia that: “The composition of
Government of a State …….. shall be carried
out in such a manner as to recognise the
diversity of the people within its area of
authority ……”, Section 15 (2) elucidates
further on the diversity as it unequivocally
stated that “(2) Accordingly, national
integration shall be actively encouraged
whilst discrimination on the grounds of place
of origin, sex, RELIGION STATUS (emphasis
ours), ethnic or linguistic association or ties
shall be prohibited”.
No Governor in Ekiti State had committed
more serious infractions of the Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria than
Governor Fayose in the issues of
appointment during his first and second
tours of duties in the State. Currently, the
following distribution pattern of political and
top bureaucrats prevail under Governor
Ayodele Fayose’s watch:

1. Governor – 1 Christian, Muslim, NIL ;
2. Deputy Governor – 1 Christian, Muslim, NIL;
3. Speaker – 1 Christian Muslim, NIL;
4. Deputy Speaker – 1 Christian Muslim, NIL;
5. Judges – All Christians, Muslim, NIL;
6. Special Advisers – Christians, 1 Muslim;
7. Secretary to the State Government – 1 Christian, Muslim, NIL
8. 14 State Commissioners – All Christians, Muslim, NIL;
9. Chief of Staff – 1 Christian, Muslim, NIL;
10. Director General (Due Process) – 1 Christian, Muslim, NIL ;
11. Chairman, Petroleum Task Force – 1 Christian, Muslim, NIL;
12. 26 No Permanent Secretaries – All Christians, Muslim, NIL ;
13. 13 No Executive Secretaries – All Christians Muslim, NIL;
14. 5 No Chairman/Members of SUBEB – All Christians, Muslim, NIL;
15. 5 No Chairman/Members of HASC – 4 Christians, 1 Muslim;
16. 5 No Chairman/Members of EKSIEC – All Christians, Muslim, NIL;
17. 5 No Chairman/Members, Governing Board of EKSU – All Christians, Muslim,
NIL;
18. 7 No Chairman/Members of College of Education – All Christians, Muslim, NIL;
19. 7 No Chairman/Members of Governing Board of College of Health Tech All Christians,
No Muslim;
20. 16 Education Secretaries President - All Christians, Muslim, NIL;
21.16 Caretaker Chairmen of Local Government Councils – 15 Christians, 1Muslim.

It may interest the reading public to know
also that this is the same Ekiti State where,
at different times and under different
democratic governments, Muslims produced
Deputy Governor, Secretary to the State
Government, Chairmen and Members of
Statutory Boards and Commissions, Special
Advisers, Permanent Secretaries, Chairmen
and Members of government parastatals,
etc.
However, in the wisdom of our fair Governor,
what Muslims deserve in his government are
just 1 SPECIAL ADVISER, 1 out of 16 LG
Councils CARETAKER CHAIRMEN, 1 MEMBER
of Ekiti State House of Assembly Service
Commission out of the whole mammoths
that he had appointed since October 16,
2014.
Surprisingly, this same Governor, who did
not consider it fair enough to appoint
Muslims into political offices appointed his
own son as his Personal Assistant to bring
the total number of people appointed from
Afao-Ekiti alone, his own home town to five
when most big towns in the State are still
yawning for one.
As at the last count, the Governor, his
Personal Assistant, Chairman of Irepodun/
Ifelodun Local Government Council, his Local
Government Area, a Senior Special Assistant,
Environment and Traffic Control and one
Education Secretary are all from Afao –
Ekiti. Where is the justice, where is the
fairness Gov Fayose appears to be
defending?
While once again Muslims in Ekiti State
concede to Governor Fayose his right to
criticise the President on equitable
distribution of political offices or on any
other issue, we charge him to start with the
correction of the lopsided appointments he
made in his own State and to give his
people similar freedom of expression he
enjoys under President Buhari, his most
avowed object of criticism.
Charity, they say, begins from home and he
who goes to equity should go with clean
hands. For, so far, President Buhari had
appointed less than 20% of his political
appointees out of which 22.5% are
Southerners. Governor Fayose had appointed
mere FOUR (4) or 0.05% MUSLIMS so far
out of a mammoth of about EIGHTY (80)
political and career appointees, representing
at least 80% of total appointments he
intends to make.
What Muslims expect from Governor Fayose
now is to re-appraise his appointments and
make necessary amends. There are more
than enough credible and well qualified
Muslims, even going by the standard of the
Governor, who are members of his political
party in the State from whom he can pick.
If he is in any difficulty in identifying them,
the NSCIA in the State is ready to assist
him. It is only when he does this that
Muslims in Ekiti State will see his criticism
of President Buhari’s administration as
devoid of pettiness and share showmanship.
The Governor should not take the civility of
Muslims in Ekiti as weakness just as his
claim to sincerity is subject to proof. The
leadership of Muslims had prevailed on the
Muslims in the State to maintain dignified
silence in the phase of the obvious neglect
for the sake of unity in the State.

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"And they didn't condemn PMB(de terrorist)", Quote me anywhere.

Ekiti state remains the "Israel" of southwest, no agenda against the people of "Israel" will work.

Hmmm

Ekiti is the last hope of Yoruba. All the other Yoruba states have been islamised

wailers everywhere...