‘This govt of one week, one drama’

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement asking security agencies to go after critics of his government as last desperate attempt by a failed administration to silence Nigerians.

The governor who described Buhari’s administration as a “clueless government of one week one drama” argued that it was the rights of the people in a democracy to express their views freely and that President Buhari “must accept that and live with it.”

The governor then said that Nigerians will resist any attempt by President Buhari “to hide under the arranged abduction and release of the Dapchi girls to achieve his dictatorial aim of further clampdown on those speaking out against his failed government.”

The governor stated this in a release issued on Saturday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, adding that it was strange that the president “who should be asking questions as to why military checkpoints in Dapchi and other surrounding towns were removed to pave way for the abduction of the girls was threatening Nigerians who are merely asking to be freed from a clueless government of one week, one drama”.

The statement read in detail, “President Buhari needs to be told that no one is politicising abduction and release of the Dapchi school girls. Rather, it is the Federal Government that is playing drama and did not come out clean on the abduction and release of the girls.

“In a democracy, the people are entitled to their views and can’t be silenced in their own land, particularly when the President has failed to protect Nigerians who are daily being killed, especially by herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists.

“It is the rights of the citizens to call governments to order when they fail to live up to their responsibility.

“The President and his men must also be told that even in military era, except under Buhari who introduced Decree 2, it did not get worse than this and Nigerians won’t allow their voice to be muzzled by a government that has failed them.

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“That President Buhari and his men are afraid of Nigerians to the extent that they are even fighting tooth and nail against amendment of election sequence is a sign of government that has failed and afraid to lose election in 2019.

“Therefore, the silence of Nigerians must not be interpreted as endorsement of animalistic killings and nepotism flourishing under this government of President Buhari, but a grave yard silence that will result to electoral failure next year.

“For every beginning, there must be an end. Buhari won’t be a life President and the end of his directionless government will come in 2019.”

 

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