Fayose daring Buhari by wearing Army camouflage, APC says

The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has descended heavily on the state’s governor, Ayodele Fayose for daring to put on army camouflage while presenting his 2017 budget to the State House of Assembly.

APC said the governor is now challenging the authority of President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that he may be up to something sinister.

According to the party, Fayose keeps his own army in the government house which he regularly unleashes on his opponents.

This is coming after Governor Fayose had on Tuesday kitted himself in full army camouflage while presenting the 2017 budget to the House of Assembly.

The state APC, in a statement released in Ado-Ekiti by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, argued that Fayose’s behaviour was an insult on the constitution and a shameless conduct which means that democracy was dead in Ekiti State.

Part of the statement read, “We have always insisted that Fayose is a law unto himself and a threat to democracy in Nigeria, showing contempt for the law and would do anything to undermine the integrity of the supremacy of the constitution.

“As a man who has constituted himself as the law, Fayose has demonstrated several times that he has no respect for the nation’s constitutional democracy and the rule of law… Fayose keeps his own army in the Government House that he regularly unleashes on his opponents, including using same armed thugs to prevent EFCC from doing its job when the governor stormed Access Bank with thugs to shield Mrs Fani-Kayode from EFCC scrutiny on her husband’s frozen account.

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“Wearing army camouflage to the parliament to present the budget has confirmed our earlier claim that Fayose has army uniforms stocked at home with which he unleashed terror on the opposition during the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

“The President of the federation is allowed to wear army uniform to perform certain official functions while the officers and men of the force can also wear it, and so by wearing army uniform to perform an official duty in the parliament, Fayose is challenging the authority of the President who is the only Head of government allowed by law to wear army uniform.

“Fayose may be running a mercenary ring and planning something sinister as we had earlier raised alarm. It is time for the security agencies to take Fayose’s security breach seriously

Meanwhile, Fayose, in a statement he made through his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Lere Olayinka’s twitter handle, called on the APC to consider his performance and achievement and not his attire, adding “If Buhari likes, let him dress like Fulani Herdsmen to the National Assembly to present 2017 Budget.”

 

 

 

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