Read the press statement below...
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose
has described the last six months of
President Mohammadu Buhari’s
administration as that of “deceitful
change,” lamenting that the President was
destroying the image of Nigeria and its
people for cheap international recognition.
Te governor, who also described the claim
by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi
Adeosun that the ministry do not have
details of any fund recovered from
officials of the immediate past government
of Dr Goodluck Jonathan as a vindication
of his position that the President was not
saying the truth, said Nigerians must ask
the President where the so-called looted
fund was paid and who made the payments.
He said; “If the Ministry of Finance is
not aware of any recovered
fund, it is either those who purportedly
made the refund did so by
loading cash into Ghana-Must-Go bags and
dropping the bags in the
President’s bedroom or the fund was lodged
into the Central Bank
without records.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on
Public Communications and
New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose
said “the only areas
President Buhari has recorded tremendous
achievements are areas of
political persecution, disobedience of court
order and desperate bid
to turn the country to a one-party state
as evident in the Kogi State
election, which the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC),
headed by Buhari's kinsman staged managed
and muddled up.”
He said; “in the last six months, a section
of the judiciary has been
so openly manipulated by the Buhari’s
administration such that
different judgments were given in similar
cases, with the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) getting negative
judgments while the All
Progressives Congress (APC) secured
positive judgements in cases with
similar facts and evidences.”
While sympathising with Nigerians, who
were deceived to vote for the
APC and are now bearing the brunt of
the six months of Buhari’s
administration’s cluelessness, Governor
Fayose said; “It is painful
that Nigerians are being made to suffer
great hardships from fuel
scarcity, thousands of people are still
being killed in the North by
Boko Haram, Chibok Girls are still not
found, power supply has
dropped, and above all; the unity of the
country is being threatened
as admitted by the Minister of
Information, Lai Mohammed, yet all our
President does is junketing around the
globe.”
Speaking further, the governor said;
“Honestly, this change promised
by President Buhari and his party, APC is
nothing other than ‘one
chance change’ and this has been attested
to even by highly respected
international news media.
“For instance, Bloomberg, in a report two
days ago said hopes have
fizzled in Buhari’s ability to turn around
Nigeria and that money that
flowed into stocks and bonds in Nigeria,
which McKinsey & Co. says
could become one of the world’s 20 biggest
economies by 2030, is now
fleeing as growth prospects diminish along
with oil prices.
“Under President Buhari, the United
States-based investment banking
and financial services multinational J P
Morgan ejected Nigeria from
its Government Bond Index for Emerging
Markets (GBI-EM) with effect
from the end of October this year.
"Under Buhari, the future of workers are
being threatened by the APC
government plot to reduce minimum wage
and retrench workers.
"Under Buhari, oil subsidy is to be
removed next year January, thereby
causing further hardship for the people.
“Under President Buhari, multi-national
companies are laying-off
thousands of workers while contractors
working for the Federal
Government have left their sites. Yet,
what the President does is to
junket from one country to another to cast
aspersion on Nigeria and
its people and one wonders how foreign
investors will come to a
country that its President says is peopled
by rogues."