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Buhari is a grandpa, old and tired, we don’t need him –Fayose
Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a grandfather, old and tired and no longer needed as Nigeria’s President.
The governor stated this in response to Buhari’s declaration on Monday that he has finally decided to seek re-election in 2019 due to clamour for him to do so by Nigerians.
But in his reaction, Fayose, who remains one of Buhari’s fiercest critics, said that Buhari’s Monday declaration for re-election was dead on arrival, adding that should he get re-elected that he would kill the country.
Fayose spoke to journalist in Ado-Ekiti through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi.
“That ambition is dead on arrival. We don’t want grandpa as president anymore. Nigeria does not deserve a Buhari as president in 2019. Buhari is old and tired. When people don’t know when to take their leave and say bye, Nigerians will show them the exit door.
“He has done more harm to this country. His ambition is a means by which Nigerians will tell him good riddance to bad rubbish when they boot him out of office. He is an easy candidate to defeat in the poll for he has failed woefully.
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“He has failed in all fronts. He has failed in his so-called fight against corruption, he has failed in the economic front. He has not done well in term of security. People are being killed in large number daily and Nigerians have no confidence in him.
His declaration today (Monday)is a slap on Nigerians in the face of what Nigerians are passing through. His government is not only clueless, but in a shambles. He should go home and rest,” Fayose said.
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