Following the buffet of criticisms trailing his death wish for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has said he has nothing personal against the former head of state.
The governor, who spoke on Thursday through a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said he is not wishing Buhari dead as widely believed in many quarters, but maintained that the APC presidential flag bearer is too old to govern a complex country like Nigeria.
Fayose explained that he is opposed to the emergence of Buhari as president because Nigerians do not deserve a leader that will govern by proxy.
The Ekiti governor said his experience as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ad hoc committee which shopped for a suitable presidential candidate for the party in the run-up to the 2007 presidential election informed his opposition to Buhari’s candidature.
He revealed that his committee did not recommend the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua, whom he said initially rejected the offer before he (Yar’Adua) was allegedly opposed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Fayose said the criticisms trailing his mode of campaign for the re-election of the PDP candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, are unnecessary, accusing the APC leaders promoting Buhari’s candidature as insincere.
The governor, who said he owed nobody any apology for exposing the hypocrisy of APC leaders, accused them of placing personal interests far above national interests.
He alleged that the APC had not only packaged lies and tried to foist such on Nigerians, but had compromised the Independent National Electoral Commission to rig the elections if it had held on February 14.
Going down the memory lane on how the late Yar’Adua was preferred by Obasanjo, Fayose said he does not want the events that took place in the PDP presidential primary in December 2006 to be re-enacted in 2015.
Fayose said: “I remember then as the ad hoc chairman of the PDP committee that shopped for the presidential candidate to replace former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a crop of suitable, brilliant, healthy and competent northern politicians in the PDP were shortlisted by me for Obasanjo to pick from, but he overruled the list and asked me to contact the late Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua because he preferred him.
“In fairness to the late president, he objected to the offer on health ground, but Obasanjo insisted that he must be the president. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Fayose if you don't want Buhari cast your vote for Jonathan and stop making so much noise are you to decide for others?
ReplyDeleteI wonder oooo....at this stage, if one doesn't know which way to go unless someone convince one, itx a shame! Everybody has his/her own opinion not that one Fayose would be blabbing around. He should vote for his candidate and let others vote for theirs...If i like i vote for Onovo or any other presidential candidate, itx nobody's buz...Get your home(Ekiti) in order and stopping jumping the fence.
DeleteFayose u re tout garage boy, after rigging election in ur favor,instead u will sit down to work u stat looking for ways to bring somebody down u will die b4 buhari,and Nigerian should not forget d antecedents of ffk father during wet e in d west,ffk father make sure akintola was killed,try to remember how u finish ur education ur ways in d school re still fresh,its better for u to stop now or else ur doom days re near
ReplyDeleteFayose will continue to make noise, did you stopped that parrot AMaechi who was ranting and raining abuse on the president of Nigeria? Fayose, tell them the truth
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