– Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti urges President Buhari to call his appointees to order to avoid making a mockery of the nation
– Fayose describes the alleged incessant acts of impunity by presidency officials and other appointees as alarming
– The governor says Nigerians are beginning to believe that Buhari has lost grip of his government
Governor Ayodele Fayose has said President Buhari has lost grip of his government.
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti has warned President Muhammdu Buhari that the larger-than-life attitude of the presidential appointees could endanger the nation’s democracy.
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The governor described the alleged incessant acts of impunity by presidency officials and other appointees as alarming.
Fayose, in a statement through his chief press secretary, Idowu Adelusi, on Friday, March 24, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to restrain presidency officials and other appointees in order to avoid endangering Nigeria’s democracy and making a mockery of the nation.
Stating that the economy had collapsed and the people are suffering, Fayose warned the president to note that Nigerians are discerning and the wool cannot be pulled over their eyes any longer., adding that their patience is fast running out.
According to Fayose: “Governance has been reduced to a theatre of the absurd. These appointees of yours are needlessly and embarrassingly flexing muscles and are heating up the polity; they appear to be having fun and regaling themselves at the expense of the nation. The economy has collapsed and the people are suffering. There is hunger and anger never before witnessed in the land.
“Yet, Presidential appointees are preoccupied with trivialities and inanities. Wearing of uniform has suddenly become a Supreme Court matter. Why a man who will not wear uniform went to take a uniformed job beggars belief. How someone who has so little respect and scanty regard for an organisation like the Nigeria Customs Service should be made to head the same organisation must baffle right-thinking Nigerians.
“In other societies where people have a sense of decency and decorum, people with such irreconcilable differences would honourably resign their position.
“And where a government finds itself unable to effectively govern, as we appear to have here on our hands, it behoves the head of that government to do the needful.”
The governor said Nigerians are beginning to believe that Buhari had lost grip of government.
He said Aisha Buhari’s allegation that a cabal had taken over the government was now cogent, noting that the president’s defence that his wife belongs to “the other room” now rings hollow in the ears of Nigerians based on current happening.
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“The saying is that he who appoints can also disappoint. Your appointees are your creation and it is an aberration when they become greater and more powerful than you. Mr. President, the tail is wagging the dog right now. You must take effective and firm action to reverse this ugly and unwholesome trend.
“I am also the head of a government and I know how it works. The ‘consortium of presidents’ around you, as Nigerians now derisively refer to those ‘powerful’ and larger-than-life appointees of yours who take delight in riding roughshod over the polity and desecrating the hallowed chambers of justice, must be cut to size. If you need help, Nigerians are ready to queue behind you on this issue to put an end to your appointees’ shenanigans,” the governor said.
Fayose volunteered to help the president control his appointees, saying that as a state governor, he cannot brook a tenth of what you are taking from your appointees.
He said:“None of my appointees can disrespect and disparage the Ekiti State House of Assembly like your appointees are doing to the National Assembly.
“Did you listen to what a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic said this week on the floor of the red chamber; that for the 59 days that you were away on medical leave in London, your appointees were gentle and behaved themselves and there were no killings in any part of the country by rampaging herdsmen; but now you are back and the troubles are back with us again? We all prayed for your quick recovery and swift return to office. Must we now regret doing so? “
Meanwhile, Zenithblog.com reports that Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has cautioned the police over its handling of the investigation on the recent crisis in Ile-Ife, Osun state.
The governor, in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, March 23, by his special assistant on public communications and new media, accused the police of displaying ethnic bias in its investigation of the crisis.
He condemned the mayhem and described the loss of innocent souls as unfortunate but added that the bias police investigation of the crisis is not good for the unity of Nigeria and its people, The Punch reports
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