Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has urged President Mohammadu
Buhari to pay more attention to security and economic issues affecting
Nigeria, instead of focussing on those of other countries and
persecuting perceived political enemies, describing the President’s
condemnation of Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort
in Cote D’Ivoire as hypocritical and demonstration of insensitivity to
the plight of Nigerians.
The governor, who described terror attacks anywhere in the world as
condemnable, 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.”
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it
was strange that President Buhari was more concerned with the killing
of 16 people in Cote D’Ivoire than the Fulani herdsmen’s murder of
over 300 citizens of Nigeria.
He said it was alarming that even when someone of the status of former
Senate President, David Mark was attacked by the Fulani herdsmen last
Saturday when he went on inspection of the eight communities
completely destroyed by the Fulani herdsmen, there was no reaction
from the President condemning the terror attack.
The governor said; “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 investigation 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.
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