Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described
President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement asking security to go after critics
of his government’s cluelessness as
‘last desperate attempt by a failed government to silence Nigerians’, adding
that “In a democracy, it is the rights of the people to express their views
freely and President Buhari must accept that and live with it.”
He said Nigerians would resist any attempt by the president
to hide under the “arranged abduction and release of the Dapchi girls” to achieve his dictatorial aim of further clampdown on those speaking out
against his failed government.
In a release issued, on Saturday, by his Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it
was strange that the president, who should be asking questions as to why
military checkpoints in Dapchi and other surrounding towns were removed to pave
way for the abduction of the girls, was threatening Nigerians who are merely
asking to be freed from a clueless government of one week, one drama.
Governor Fayose said: “President Buhari needs to be told
that no one is politicising abduction and release of the Dapchi school girls.
Rather, it is the Federal Government
that is playing drama and did not come out clean on the abduction and release
of the girls.”
“In a democracy, the people are entitled to their views and
can’t be silenced in their own land, particularly when the president has failed
to protect Nigerians who are daily being killed, especially by herdsmen and
Boko Haram terrorists.
“It is the rights of the citizens to call governments to
order when they fail to live up to their responsibility.
“The President and his men must also be told that even in
military era, except under Buhari who introduced Decree 2, it did not get worse than this and
Nigerians won’t allow their voice to be
muzzled by a government that has failed them.
“That President Buhari and his men are afraid of Nigerians
to the extent that they are even fighting tooth and nail against amendment of
election sequence is a sign of government that has failed and afraid to lose
election in 2019.
“Therefore, the silence of Nigerians must not be interpreted
as endorsement of animalistic killings and nepotism flourishing under this
government of President Buhari, but a grave yard silence that will result to
electoral failure next year.
“For every beginning, there must be an end. Buhari won’t be
a life President and the end of his directionless government will come in
2019.”
Fayose raps Buhari for asking security to go after critics
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