Buhari trip to US, joke of the year, Fayose says

The governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to the US to attend the 4th Nuclear Security Summit as the joke of year.

According to Fayose, it was funny that the President will embark on the trip when Nigerians are suffering at home.
Fayose said: “it remains a mystery what President Buhari that met power generation at 6,000MW and could not manage it such that power generation crumbled to Zero Megawatt yesterday, will contribute to the Nuclear Energy Summit in America.”

The governor, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, further said: “It is shameful that while President Buhari was far away in the United States of America, attending a summit that does not have any bearing on Nigeria and its people, an unprecedented happened – power generation stopped completely for over three hours!”

Fayose contended that the sufferings of Nigerians deserved the attention of the president instead of travelling around the world, wasting the country’s scarce foreign exchange.

The vociferous governor, who said that over $50 million must have been spent on the president’s frequent foreign trips, tasked Nigerians to ask President Buhari whether his trip to the United States of America to attend Nuclear Energy Summit will bring the lingering fuel scarcity being experienced in the country to an end.

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“Nigerians are suffering. Petrol has become so scarce that our people now sleep in petrol stations to buy fuel at N200 per litre while the president who should alleviate their sufferings is in the USA, attending a summit that he won’t even understand whatever that is discussed there.

“This is not acceptable. Mr President should stay at home and see to it that at least, power generation returns to 6,000MW that he met it if he cannot add to it.

“Mr President should stay at home and bring this fuel scarcity that has paralysed almost all activities in the country to an end.

The governor further insisted that Nigerians are saying their president should stay at home and bring to an end the killings, raping of women and destruction of farmlands by Fulani herdsmen.

He also called on President Buhari to listen to those criticising him instead of those hailing every of his wrong steps either because of what they intend to gain or for fear of persecution.

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