Fayose says he won’t be cowed by allegations that he’s funding IPOB

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday said that the allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that he was the one funding the Indigenous People of Biafra cannot cow him.

He insisted that the alleged killing of IPOB supporters in the South East by the military was wrong.
The Ekiti State chapter of the APC had in a statement on Sunday accused Governor Fayose of funding Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB and his group in their agitation for self-determination.

But responding in a statement he released through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said that the blackmail by APC leaders in Ekiti State cannot cow him to stop his criticism of the bad policies of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Part of the statement read, “We cannot all be cowed. The militarization of Nigeria, being witnessed now can only be likened to 1984 when General Muhammadu Buhari was military Head of State.

“Killing people in the Southeast just because some people are agitating is wrong and I wonder why none of our so called human rights activists is talking.

“Herdsmen have sacked a whole community in this country, has anyone been arrested for all the killings by herdsmen?

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“If because I am speaking against the wanton killings being done by the military in the Southeast, the APC is saying that I’m funding IPOB, was I the one funding the people of Southern Kaduna when I condemned the killings there? Was I funding the Agatus in Benue State when I condemned their killings by Fulani herdsmen?

“Was I funding the Shiite Muslims when I condemned the killings of El-Zakzaky followers in Zaria?”
There have been divergent views over the tension in the Southeast resulting from the military exercise in the region code-named “Operation Python Dance 11.”

Many Nigerians have condemned the loss of lives in the region due to clashes between the Nigerian Army and IPOB members, while some others have commended the military for clamping down on the unarmed agitators.

 

 

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