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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose,
has declared that even if the State was
invaded by one million armed men of the
Department of State Services on the orders
of President Mohammadu Buhari, the
government and the people of the State will
never be intimidated to surrender
governance of the State to political
desperadoes, whose four-year reign
destroyed the economy of the State.
The governor, who said the DSS under
President Buhari was operating beyond its
constitutional mandate, added: “The
government of Ekiti State may have to
reconsider the usefulness of men of the DSS
in the government house and other
institutions of the State government.”
In a release issued on Sunday and signed
by the Special Assistant to the governor on
Public Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said the All
Progressives Congress-led Federal
Government was pursuing a clandestine
agenda of truncating democracy in Ekiti
State and other Peoples Democratic Party
controlled States like Rivers and Bayelsa.
He said: “If Buhari likes, let him relocate all
DSS men in Nigeria with the entire
ammunitions in their armoury to Ekiti, the
will of Ekiti people can never be broken.
They will only try, and like they have always
done, they will fail because dictatorship has
never triumphed over the people. Even
Buhari’s dictatorship between 1984 and
1985 ended one day and Nigerians will also
outlive his present dictatorship.”
The governor said the DSS under Buhari’s
kinsman, Lawal Daura, has abandoned its
core mandate of providing intelligence for
the protection of the internal security of
Nigeria as provided in the Security Agencies
Act Cap. N74 LFN, 2004 adding: “Instead of
assisting the Police, Military and other
security agencies with classified matters,
we now have a DSS that is running after
perceived opponents of the president,
arresting goat and fowl thieves as well as
husbands who assaulted their wives.
“If the DSS was alive to its responsibilities,
we won’t be having Boko Haram insurgents
killing Nigerians, all these kidnappings and
Fulani Herdsmen killings, raping and
destroying farmlands in the South-West,
South-East and North-Central zones in the
country would have been nipped in the
bud.”
Fayose said the same way President Buhari
used the National Security Organisation,
headed by Ambassador Mohammed Lawal
Rafindadi from Katsina State, is the same
way the President is using the DSS, headed
by another of his kinsman, Lawal Daura, to
harass, oppress and intimidate Nigerians.
Governor Fayose said: “It is obvious that
democracy in Nigeria is becoming unsafe in
the hands of Buhari and his APC and those
keeping silent now because of politics may
also end up in the belly of this roaring lion
that is threatening to consume our
democracy.
“Therefore, Nigerians and the international
community should take special notice of the
use of the DSS and Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission to muscle opposition.
“As for me, I wish to say once again that I
am not among those Nigerians that are
afraid of harassment by any agency of the
federal government.
“I make bold to state that in the overall
interest of democracy and well-being of
Nigerians, I will continue to speak my mind
on issues bordering on governance in
Nigeria. I will not be intimidated!”
https://www.today.ng/news/national/89642/i-cant-be-intimidated-by-one-million-buhari-dss-fayose

Peter if na Mouth nobody will defeat you lailai.

anyway what is my concern with politics if only the poor masses will feed and their children go to school make dem cancel governance and turn to traditional things.

Mr Governor well said. In retrospect, men of the DSS were well mobilised to rein in terror in Ekiti many months ago. Mr Governor sir, you benefited from it. Nigerian still remember the obanikoro- military chiefs scandal in Ekiti.

Mr Governor, please let the people of Ekiti enjoy good governance and stop talking too much

the only yellowba man with balls ever!

That's my man


Agunechemba 1 of Ekiti.

God bless you and your generations yet unborn.

Speak the truth even when your kinsmen have sold their souls for a cup of burukutu

preggi:
Mr Governor well said. In retrospect, men of the DSS were well mobilised to rein in terror in Ekiti many months ago. Mr Governor sir, you benefited from it. Nigerian still remember the obanikoro- military chiefs scandal in Ekiti.

Mr Governor, please let the people of Ekiti enjoy good governance and stop talking too much

I'm dessapointed in u, even ashamed that we are from thesame state. You have lost totally the boldness ekiti people do have in speaking the truth irrespective of intimidation because of ur political affiliation. You are very lucky dat i did not know u, i will would have use ur quote againt u in future. Omo ale ekiti

Lamentations of fayose

I'm not a big fan of Fayose and FFK but one thing is clear. Both of them are some of the very few Yoruba men who are not self confessed slaves of the Northern oligarchy

Fine, so long as you have nothing to hide! However, will you come clean on the meeting where you allegedly connived with military top brass to compromise the elections that saw you into the Governor's Office? Will you come clean on your alleged invasion and desecration of the High Court, Ado Ekiti beating up a Judge whose dress and record book were torn. Your alleged misconducts and that of your APC opponents who couldn't match you thug-for-thug will be accounted for by all concerned before God. Nigerian politicians repent from your evil ways.

phemy36:
I'm dessapointed in u, even ashamed that we are from thesame state. You have lost totally the boldness ekiti people do have in speaking the truth irrespective of intimidation because of ur political affiliation. You are very lucky dat i did not know u, i will would have use ur quote againt u in future. Omo ale ekiti

Hello Phemy36, I am not from a Ekiti. I have many Ekitis as friends and they are courteous and chose their words wisely while standing for the truth. They are not blackmailers. You don't portray a good picture of the Ekitis I mentioned above.

Now back to the issue, was there a time in Ekiti land that DSS men invaded the state? Yes and Mr Governor benefited from the intimidation and harassment of the denizens of Ekiti state.
This same DSS that helped you into Office you now castigate. Oh, tables do turn right?


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