Buhari seeking re-election to further oppress, not protect Nigerians, says Fayose

Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has kicked

against the statement that President Muhammadu Buhari

is seeking re-election to protect Nigerians.

“Nothing is further from the truth”, says Fayose in a

statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Chief Press Secretary,

Mr Idowu Adelusi.

“Buhari says he is seeking re-election to protect

Nigerians? Tell him Nigerians need no spurious

‘protection’ from him. Nigerians from all walks of life have

rejected this man and dismissed the many propaganda of

Buhari’s APC government as lies from the pit of hell.

“Buhari and APC have only used the power they hold in

trust for the people to suppress, oppress, intimidate,

victimise, and destroy our people.

“Buhari says what he is expected to do; that is, to protect

us, but which is actually not what he is doing. We are

calling on him to protect us from killers and murderers but

Buhari has failed to do that in four years. He has instead

defended them again and again. What magic will he now

perform if re-elected into office?”

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Fayose lamented that the Nigerian people that brought

Buhari/APC to office have systematically, relentlessly, and

ruthlessly been destroyed by Buhari/APC despite protests

by Nigerians and the international community.

“Do we talk of his human rights abuses or the daily killing

of innocent but hapless and helpless Nigerians under his

watch, which have surpassed any in peace-time Nigeria?

“The country itself is drifting as a result of Buhari’s

mindless tribalism and nepotism, which have polarised

Nigerians like never before.

“The Nigerian economy, which was the largest in Africa

and one of the fastest-growing in the world, is now a

shambles due to Buhari/APC’s pig-headed policies and

pussy-footing when prompt and appropriate decisions

were needed to pilot the ship of State.

“In free and fair elections, there is no way Buhari/APC can

return to power. And talking about free and fair elections,

a legacy handed down to Buhari/APC has been

shamelessly ruined by them as our elections are no longer

free and fair.

“Today under Buhari/APC, joblessness, hopelessness,

depression, and despondency envelop the nation.

Oppression, repression, suppression, and untold suffering

have become the order of the day.

“It is political rascality and unbridled partisanship carried

too far when Mr President repeatedly declines to sign the

Electoral Bill into law in an election in which he intends to

be a participant. The fate of a whole nation, the efforts of

our heroes past, and the progress of our renascent

democracy thus hang in the balance on the altar of ego-

tripping and cold-blooded calculations to despotically cling

to power.

Fayose added that should the President be upright and

honest enough to draw a graph between 2015 and now, he

will see how abysmally he has fallen in Nigerians’

estimation as a result of his dismal and abject

performance in office.

“And should he be forthright enough to commission an

independent and objective survey of the current level of his

goodwill, he will just go back home and rest.

“There is little or nothing left of the huge goodwill that

brought Buhari into office. He has frittered it all!”