Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for replacing the sacked National
Intelligence Agency (NIA) Director General, Ambassador Ayo Oke with another
northerner, Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
Recall that President Muhammadu
Buhari yesterday approved the appointment of a substantive Director General for
the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
Fayose stated that, Buhari has
further demonstrated to Nigerians that he is an unrepentant sectional leader,
who does not care about the feelings of people from other parts of the country.
The governor’s Special Assistant on
public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, quoted him as saying in a
statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday that “seeing what President Buhari
has turned the country to, the forefathers of Nigeria, who laid the foundation
of the country on equity, justice and fairness will be lamenting wherever they
are now.”
Fayose said, “With the
appointment of Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the NIA Director General, all heads of
security agencies are now northerners and the question is, is this what those
who enshrined federal character in our constitution envisaged?”
“Ambassador Ayo Oke was removed
from office the same day Babachir Lawal was removed as Secretary to the
Government of the Federation. While Lawal’s replacement came from his home
State, Oke’s replacement came from the north. That is unacceptable.”
The Governor reminded Nigerians
of President Buhari’s directive that the World Bank should shift its focus to
the northern region of Nigeria, maintaining that “because of the President’s
nepotism, religious bigotry and favouritism, Nigeria is now more divided than
ever.
“President Buhari has
consistently demonstrated that he is an ethnic champion, a religious bigot and
the number one promoter of disunity in Nigeria. This he has done again with the
appointment of yet another northerner as the NIA Director General.
“Even at a point, the National
Chairman of the President’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), John
Oyegun had to openly fault the appointments made by the President, saying that
as many as three people were appointed from one
ward in a local government in the north.
“The implication of what the
President has done is that, when Security Council meeting is held today, apart
from one or two insignificant people, those in the meeting will be people from
one section of the country.
“Even para-military agencies are
headed by people from President Buhari’s section of the country. This is
unfair.”
“Like I said before, those
politicians, who painted the picture of a changed President Buhari to Nigerians
before the 2015 presidential election must have seen now that he (Buhari) can
never change from an ethnic champion to a nationalist.’’
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Thank you Sir my able Governor. God bless and protect you and your family. You are a man that represent the oppressed. A voice for the voiceless. Someday posterity will remember your noble works. I dear say, the same can not be said of the imposters at the federal level.
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