The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose,
on Sunday boasted that the presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), “will never
be Nigeria president again.”
The governor also challenged the former
Head of State to swear by the Holy Quran that he did not visit the
hospital in the United Kingdom last week.
Fayose, who spoke through his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said,
“I wish they can see spiritually what I am talking about that Buhari,
despite the hullabaloo will never be president. I predicted my return as
Ekiti State governor and I am saying it again that Buhari will never
rule Nigeria again.
“After President Goodluck Jonathan, there
will be a young element in his late 50s from the North that will be
Nigerian president. I want to liken this revelation to the story of
Elijah and Elisha. I am the Elijah while my followers are Elisha.”
He said he never wished Buhari dead.
He added, “I owe it a duty to Nigeria and
its people to expose the antics of the APC cabal whose only interest is
to seize power to further selfish interests.
“Without doubt, it is obvious that
members of this cabal in the APC is trying so hard to deceive Nigerians
on Buhari’s health status. That is the reason they have been using
photoshop pictures to defend their lies on Buhari’s UK trip.
“First, they used a March 5, 2013
picture, claiming that Buhari was taking a walk in London on Thursday.
Later they came up with another poorly cropped picture of Buhari with
former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
“The same people who lied in September
2012 that they received a gold card invitation to attend the Democratic
National Convention in the United States of America are behind the
dressing of Buhari in the garment of lies and I challenge Buhari to
swear by the Holy Quran that he did not visit hospital in the United
Kingdom last week.”
But, a group in the Ekiti State has
described Fayose as a “political stalker” whose actions should be viewed
as a threat to the life of Buhari.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Mr.
Segun Dipe, the Action Group operating within the APC in Ekiti, asked
Fayose to tender an unreserved apology for having the general on his
death-wish list.
Dipe said, “Everyone should put Fayose on notice how his words and deeds have been threatening the life of General Buhari.
“The indecorous governor is bent on
seeing the APC presidential candidate dead before the March 28
presidential election because his party is sure of losing the election,
and he feels he will stew for it.
“That a Fayose could be hounding Buhari
with death threat is quite unwarranted and unfortunate. He has sent
spies after our presidential candidate and may soon start toying with
the idea of snipers, that is, if he has not already.
“That Fayose is fraudulent, corrupt,
inept, indecorous and uncouth is not in doubt. That he is unambiguous in
his wish for Buhari’s death is not in doubt either. What is worrisome
to us is why the twice-lucky governor should be trailing the General
even beyond the shores of Nigeria, to ensure that his wish against him
comes to pass.”
Dipe hinted that his group was aware that
Fayose in his alleged desperation to see Buhari dead had travelled to
UK just about the same time that Buhari travelled and had been trailing
the movement of the General abroad.
He said, “He wants to hold on to power by
all means possible and he knows that an integrity-driven person like
Buhari as president would clip his wings.
“Our group is calling on all well-meaning
persons in Nigeria and across the globe to call Fayose to order as his
actions and words amount to not only wishing Buhari dead but driving the
General to his death. God forbid.
“The group also calls on all sons and
daughters of Ekiti who are desirous of rejecting the toga of indecorous
and gluttony, which Fayose has brought on them, to come out enmasse and
vote General Buhari in as president come March 28, as well as the
candidates presented by APC for all the other political positions at the
polls.
“A vote for APC is a vote against Fayose’s indecorous ways and PDP’s clueless impunity.”
From PUNCH
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