Ayo Fayose
FORMER governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a nominal president who doesn’t know of happenings around him.
The former governor made the remarks in reaction to comments by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina over Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike’s invitation of the President to a state visit to Rivers State.
Adesina had said the president would have dealt with Fayose and Wike for their excesses but he merely chose to tolerate them as a father of the nation.
Fayose, in a statement by his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, in Ado Ekiti, mocked Adesina for the statement on the president punishing governors wondering if they are his servants under the nation’s law to warrant such thinking.
“On the comment by my brother and friend, Femi Adesina, about the President not dealing with me and Governor Wike, President Buhari, in my opinion, is an accidental president, who is not only clueless but unconscious of happenings in his own Presidency.
“A man who can’t defend or protect his immediate family is not in any way better than an effigy.
“If not, those around him won’t be talking about a President ‘punishing’ serving governors or even ordinary Nigerians as if they are his servants.
“Femi Adesina, do you realize I have been quiet for a while, having concluded that Buhari’s Presidency is deaf and dumb?
“So don’t wake a sleeping lion so as not to be confronted with consequences you can’t contend with”, he said.
In a related development, a political analyst, Audu Rilwan has condemned President Buhari’s condemnations on the recent attack by the Boko Haram terrorist group on the UN helicopter killing two persons stating that citizens are tired of many excuses and promises to fight the insurgency by the President.
The social commentator reacted to what he called President Buhari’s “endless assurances and promises to make the terrorists pay severely for their atrocities”.
Rilwan said it didn’t take President of the United States of America, Donald Trump days to counter the leader of a sect that constituted threats to lives of Americans and others, and wondered why President Buhari is reluctant to seek assistance of the US in fighting the deadly sect.
“President Buhari should be held liable for the unending attacks of the Boko Haram sect in the country as his endless assurances and promises to put the atrocities of the sect under control has proved to it is beyond his ability.
“The way the insurgency is progressing suggests that the federal government is not serious about fighting it to abrupt end, otherwise, US government I believe would be willing to come in with their sophisticated weapons to close the chapter once and for all. I am indeed disappointed”, he said.