The planned visit of former Abia
State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, to Ekiti State has been rejected by the Ayo
Fayose-led State Government.
The government advised the former
governor to, “take his advocacy for peace to other parts of the country where
security of lives and properties of Nigerians is under threat, not Ekiti State
that even the Police adjudged as the most peaceful State in the country.”
Kalu, who is acting as the
Chairman, Advisory Board for the National Movement for Re-election of President
Muhammadu Buhari, has embarked on a tour of the South West purportedly to
advocate for peace, fairness and unity of the country with a view to rallying
support for the President’s second term bid in 2019.
However, Ekiti State Government,
in a statement issued on Saturday, by the Special Assistant to the governor on
Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said that, “There is no
threat to peace and unity of Nigeria from Ekiti State for anyone, including
Orji Kalu to address. Therefore, he should not expect to be welcomed to any
palace in Ekiti State.”
The government urged traditional
rulers in the State to ignore the former Abia State governor, saying; “it is an
insult on the collective sensibilities of Ekiti people, whose only benefit from
the government of President Buhari is hardship occasioned by the government’s
cluelessness for anyone to hide under advocacy for peace to canvass support for
the President.”
The government said it was
unspeakable that because of his EFCC case, Orji Kalu saddled himself with the
task of doing image laundering for a President whose government is inflicting
sufferings on Nigerians.
The statement reads further; “If
he has sold his own conscience to the agenda of selling an already rejected
product to Nigerians, we in Ekiti State have not, and we are telling him
categorically that such advocacy is not welcome in our State.
“He should rather take his peace
and unity advocacy to his own State, where he is already rejected and other
States where Nigerians are being killed on daily basis by armed bandits.
“It is also ridiculous that
instead of joining Nigerians to tell the President the truth about the state of
affairs in the country, Kalu is castigating Nigerians that have summoned
courage to speak out against the President through letters and public
comments.”
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