Ayodele Fayose |
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused President
Muhammadu Buhari of making utterances that emboldened a section of the country
to make hate speeches against the Igbos.
Fayose said Buhari got it wrong through his statement after
the inauguration that his government might not favour any section of the
country that voted against him during the 2015 presidential poll.
“Apparently, the Igbos didn’t vote for Buhari in 2015,” the
governor said in Ado Ekiti during a meeting with members of the Conference of
Ekiti State Private Sectors and non-indigenes.
Fayose said the meeting with the groups was meant to cement
his relationship with them in preparation for the 2018 electoral battle.
Blaming the president for the recent quit notice recently
issued to Igbo by a coalition of Northern youth groups, Fayose said, “How can a
President that was just sworn-in after a tension-soaked election be saying that
any section that didn’t vote for him won’t benefit from his appointments?
“By implication, such President was openly giving room for
sectionalism and that was exactly what President Buhari did after the election.
We could all confirm that Nigeria has never been this divided in history.
“Every Nigerian knew that the people of the southeast didn’t
vote for him, so that automatically gave that Northern groups to have the
effrontery to order Igbos out of their region. When a leader speaks like that,
something like this is bound to happen.
“We can’t deny the fact that the problem has gone so deep in
dividing us. But it is not beyond solution. The leaders from Southeast and the
North should sit down and iron out their differences in the interest of
everybody”, he said.
Fayose commended Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for meeting
with opinion moulders from the two feuding regions, saying this would help in
stemming the tide of war drum that is holding the country by the jugular.
Fayose reiterated that the PDP governors had resolved to
remain in PDP from being destroyed by external aggressors, whether the Supreme
Court favoured Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction or not.
Speaking on the 2018 poll, Fayose said he was looking
forward to an election where he will repeat history by giving APC 16-0.
“We want to prove our supremacy over them because they said
they lost the last election due to militarisation.
“But today, the APC controls the INEC, military, police and
other para-military organisations and when we defeat them, we will await what
they will say again because we have the people behind us,” Fayose concluded.
News Credit: PUNCH.NG
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