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FAYOSE: Why I was not at meeting with Buhari

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FAYOSE: Why I was not at meeting with Buhari
The Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has offered reasons why he was not at the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 state governors in Abuja today.
Fayose in a series of tweets on Friday offered that he did not shun the president, but had more pressing engagements to attend to in his state.
The governor revealed that he had a traditional installation as Apesin of Ado Ekiti slated for same day, and he could not abandon it for an impromptu meeting with the presiden
 
“For those insinuating that I shunned d President’s meeting with govs, I didn’t. I had my installation as Apesin of Ado Ekiti slated for today.
“Also, there is Udiroko, a major festival in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital tomorrow to which I am committed.
“There was no how I could have abandoned the people here in Ado Ekiti for the impromptu meeting with the President.
“Guests were already in Ekiti since yesterday for the chieftaincy title installation before I received notice of d meeting with the President”, the governor tweeted.
Pictures emerged elsewhere of Mr.  Fayose being installed as the Apesin (Apagun P’ote) of Ado-Ekiti with his Gombe State counterpart, Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo installed as the Akinmuagun of Ado-Ekiti  by the Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, on Friday.
It is yet undetermined if Damkwambo on his part attended the meeting with the president in Abuja.
Fayose, an ardent critic of President Buhari, had earlier in the week, said that he has no apology whatsoever for all he said about the President.

Apparently challenging those asking him to apologise for his comments over the president’s health to do their worst, Fayose asked President Buhari to stop deceiving Nigerians and go back to his home town in Daura, Katsina State and rest.

On whether he would visit Buhari if asked to do so he said, “I cannot go and greet the president if invited and the reason is that such action would be misinterpreted to be something else. So, it is good for me to wish him well from a distant and be able to tell Nigerians the truth”.
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  1. yanju omotodun

    August 26, 2017 at 7:55 am

    I know he won’t do without flimsy excuses, well president Buhari can’t even invite you based on one on one because you are nonentity and irrelevant. You have missed the last only opportunity to see the president before leaving the government as a governor. Shameless reprobate, Ekiti humiliated Nigeria for choosing you as their governor despite the claim that ekiti people are full of learned people and intellectuals.

    • JOHNSON PETER

      August 26, 2017 at 6:13 pm

      The guy brainwashed them

  2. seyi jelili

    August 26, 2017 at 10:32 am

    I just pity him, he will definitely sleep in jail after his term in office is complete, efcc will teach him sense.

    • JOHNSON PETER

      August 26, 2017 at 6:00 pm

      Sure, he will run out of the country a day to his handing over just like he did then before he was caught

  3. Abeni Adebisi

    August 26, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    Fayose shunned president, he’s only making up excuses for absence. We all know Buhari and Fayose are not friends and Fayose is one of the strongest antagonists of Buhari.

  4. Anita Kingsley

    August 26, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    Buhari can do without Fayose, it isn’t Fayose that can’t do without Buhari, what he did in his state could have waited or put a representative there and attend Buhari’s meeting.

  5. Animashaun Ayodeji

    August 26, 2017 at 12:16 pm

    Buhari and fayose’s hate hasn’t started yet, when Fayose leaves office, Buhari will show him why he’s his master.

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