Benue/Ivory Coast: Buhari a hypocrite, insensitive, Fayose says

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose says that it is hypocritical of President Muhammadu Buhari to send condolences over terror attacks in Ivory Coast, but remain silent over worse attacks on Nigerian citizens.

Fayose said Buhari needs to pay more attention to security and economic issues affecting the country, instead of focusing on those of other countries.

According to him, the President’s condemnation of Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire is hypocritical and a demonstration of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians.

He lamented that “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.”

Fayose who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said it was strange that Buhari was more concerned with the killing of 16 people in Cote D’Ivoire than the murder of over 300 citizens of Nigeria.

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According to him, “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 investigating members of the State House of Assembly for alleged forgery of tax certificates when the Ekiti State Government, which issued the certificates has not complained to the DSS that its tax certificates were forged by the lawmakers.”

Fayose continued, “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.

“The President must therefore be made to realise that Nigerians are suffering, with price of foodstuffs skyrocketing. The economy is in comatose, Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen are killing people. President Buhari must learn to begin to cry over Nigeria’s problems first before going to other countries to cry over their problems for them.”

 

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