Ayodele Fayose, former governor
of Ekiti, has urged Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, Zamfara governor, to return home
and stand in defense of the people of his state.
The ex-governor said Yari should
not be abroad when there is a spate of killings by armed bandits and high level
of insecurity in Zamfara.
Fayose, south-west coordinator of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council, released a
statement on the matter on Tuesday.
“I’m aware that the governor is
abroad and I advise that he should return home,” he said.
“This is the time for him to be a
man and stand in defense of his people rather than standing with their
oppressors.”
Fayose also accused the federal
government of plotting to hide under the killings to impose emergency rule on
the state.
He said the alleged plot was in response
to the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to
allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) to field candidates for the 2019
elections in Zamfara.
The ex-governor accused the
government of orchestrating a “selfish, partisan agenda”.
“With the emergency rule, there
will only be presidential and national ssembly elections in the state in
February next year while governorship and state house of assembly elections
will be postponed till May,” he said.
“The federal government should
admit its failure and apologise to the people of Zamfara state, who were left
at the mercy of armed bandits as using the killings to achieve political goal
is not only wicked but inhuman.”
Fayose said the federal
government must be reminded that “under the PDP government of Dr Goodluck
Jonathan, emergency rule was declared in three states in the north-east without
dismantling democratic institutions”.
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