Fayose fingers Buhari as cause of Arewa youths’ hate speeches

Ekiti State’s Governor Ayodele Fayose has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari as the cause of the ongoing hate speeches against Ndigbo by Arewa youths.

The northern youths did not only asked the people of South-East part of the country to vacate their region on or before October 1, but have continuously insisted they must leave their land.

Fayose however said no other person but President Buhari should be blamed, having himself said after he was inaugurated president that his administration should not be expected to treat those who gave him 97 per cent vote the same way he will treat those that gave him five per cent vote.

“Apparently, the Igbo didn’t vote for Buhari in 2015,” Fayose said at a meeting with members of the Conference of Ekiti State Private Sectors and non-indigenes in Ado Ekiti.

Fayose organised the meeting to cement his relationship with the groups in preparation for the 2018 electoral battle.

Insisting it was Buhari who should be blamed, he argued that, “How can a president that was just sworn in after a tension-soaked election be saying that any section that didn’t vote for him won’t benefit from his appointments?

“By implication, such president was openly giving room for sectionalism and that was exactly what President Buhari did after the election. We could all confirm that Nigeria has never been this divided in history.

“Every Nigerian knew that the people of the South-East didn’t vote for him, so that automatically make northern groups to have the effrontery to order the Igbo out of their region. When a leader speaks like that, something like this is bound to happen.

“We can’t deny the fact that the problem has gone so deep in dividing us. But it is not beyond solution. The leaders from the South-East and the North should sit down and iron out their differences in the interest of everybody.”

He however, commended acting President Yemi Osinbajo for consultative meetings with the leaders from the two troubled regions, and that he believed that the efforts should be able to stem the rancour between the two people.

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Fayose, who is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also told his audience that the governors of the party have chosen to stay put in the party and shield it from being destroyed by external aggressors, even in a situation the Supreme Court judgment favours Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction.

On 2018 election, he said he wants to beat the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and other parties as he did in 2014 when he won elections in all 16 local government areas of the state to emerge governor, winning an incumbent in the process.

“We want to prove our supremacy over them because they said they lost the last election due to militarisation.

“But today, the APC controls the INEC, the military, police and other para-military organisations and when we defeat them, we will await what they will say again because we have the people behind us,” he said.

 

 

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