The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged hypocritical stance, on resolving the political logjam in Gambia.
The controversial Ekiti State Governor, was reacting to President Buhari’s latest visit to Gambia, where he played a mediation role, by persuading President Yahya Jammeh, to concede defeat.
This was contained in a statement made available to Post-Nigeria, by Lere Olayinka, the Media Aide to Governor Fayose.
The statement reads: “A man like Buhari under whose free, fair, and credible elections no longer exist, lacks moral rights to preach obedience to democratic principles to anyone.”
Fayose said great Africans like former President, Goodluck Jonathan, President John Mahama of Ghana, and others, who have lost elections, and conceded defeat, were in the best position to intervene in Gambia, adding that Buhari, who lost elections three times, and never conceded defeat, was not fit to play the role of a mediator.
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Governor Fayose wondered what President Buhari, whose government is desperately moving Nigeria from a multi-party democracy, to a one party State, would have told President Jammeh, in Gambia.
He said: “with what happened in Rivers State last weekend, it is certain that votes of Nigerians will no longer be allowed to count, as the APC cabals in the Presidential Villa has now assumed the roles of INEC, allocating votes to their party, and using security agents to force their will on the people.”
Governor Fayose asked: “Did President Buhari face Jammeh, and advised him to accept defeat the way he (Buhari) conceded defeat in 2003, 2007, and 2011, when violence was instigated, and several people, including Youth Corp members were killed? Or did Buhari lecture Jammeh, to take to democracy at gunpoint, which is now the norm in Nigeria?
“How can Buhari, who has destroyed the legacy of free, fair, and credible elections, that was handed over to him, be the one to prevail on someone else to adhere to democratic principles?”
He said Buhari should first remove the timber in his eyes, before attempting to remove the toothpicks in other peoples’ eyes, describing the President as a Physician, who cannot heal himself, but trying to heal others.
The Governor added, that even though President Jammeh behaved dishonorably, by reneging on his initial promise to accept defeat, the involvement of President Buhari in the meeting to persuade him to step down, was the height of hypocrisy.
The Governor, stressed that Nigerians are now more concerned with how to take back their country, like the Gambians have done.
“Nigerians are worried about the possibility of Buhari behaving like Jammeh in 2019, after he must have been defeated, and that the international community may need a high-powered delegation to pilot his rampaging bull out of Nigerians China shop,” he said.
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