Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele
Fayose has dared the All Progressives Congress (APC), to label Senate President
Bukola Saraki, as a sponsor of the Indigenous People of Biafra.
On Monday, Saraki came out to
condemn the categorization of IPOB as a terrorist group.
In a statement by his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose also
claimed APC took side with Fulani herdsmen when they killed people in Oke-Ako,
Ekiti State.
He said: “Now that the Senate
President, Bukola Saraki has come out to openly say that categorization of IPOB
as a ‘terrorist organisation’ by the military is unconstitutional, is the APC
also going to accuse him of sponsoring IPOB?”
Governor Fayose added: “It is on
record that on June 10, 2013, it was widely reported in the media that the
current Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who was the National
Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said that the
proscription of Boko Haram was against the constitution, that it stifled the
press and tampered with the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.
“It is also on record that in
June 2013, President Buhari told the Federal Government to stop the clampdown
of Boko Haram insurgents, accusing the government of killing and destroying
houses belonging to Boko Haram members while the Niger Delta militants were
given special treatment.
“Should we now say that Lai
Mohammed and President Buhari sponsored Boko Haram because they spoke against
the federal government’s clampdown on the insurgents then?”
He added: “Herdsmen have sacked a
whole community in this country, they killed over 1,000 Agatus in Benue State
and have destroyed people’s farmlands across the country, has any of the
herdsmen been arrested? Has any conceited effort been made by the federal
government to curb the menace of the Fulani herdsmen?
“If because I spoke against the
wanton killings carried out 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 and his continued detention?
“Mine is a mission for a Nigeria
where no one will be treated like a second class citizen and we can only
achieve that if we have leaders that will not be a champion of nepotism like
President Buhari.”
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