Fayose is a national security risk- APC

The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Monday, said the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, has been conducting himself in a manner that threatens national security.

According to the party, recent utterances and actions of the governor suggested acts of sabotage targeted at rendering national institutions ineffective to perform their statutory roles for effective government.

The, party, in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said Fayose’s unguided statements had exposed him as a man fighting a lone battle against the Federal Government, alleging that the governor was nursing selfish motives to put millions of Nigerians in jeopardy of instability in an already tottering economy.

“We have heard of reports of Governor Fayose inciting the people to stone the operatives of the DSS anywhere they are seen. This is besides saying many unprintable things about the President (Muhammadu Buhari), such as saying that he would soon die and declaring the Director General of DSS, Lawal Musa Daura, person non grata in Ekiti State.

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“It is regrettable that Fayose cannot separate his personal views as a man constantly at war with the Nigerian law from the views of lawful Ekiti people, who are ready to submit themselves to the Nigerian law where the rule of law and good governance flourish,” he said.

The Ekiti APC also accused the governor of running a government built on his personal image, and that this has cost the state good governance for the development of its people and her deserved place of honour in this country.

He called the security agencies to pay more attention to the governor by putting him under close watch to forestall his threat to Buhari’s government.

However, the governor, in a reaction through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said he would not take issue with the APC since President Buhari had personally apologised to Nigerians over his “inadequacies.”

He said: “And we told him (Buhari) he should go beyond mere apology and address the lapses and provide sensible, responsible government and dividend of democracy to Nigerians who voted for him.

“The Ekiti State APC is crying more than the bereaved. Governor Fayose has no apology for criticising obnoxious policies of President Buhari. The statement of the APC has proved the collaboration between the DSS and the APC. Or at what point does the APC become the spokesperson and defender for the DSS? The APC and DSS are toothless and reckless

 

 

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