By Kemi Kasumu
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, is back in the news after a long silence.
On his resumption he said God is already visiting the All Progressives Congress (APC) with anger.
He described the crisis being faced by the ruling party as a sign that God is angry with it for its role in allegedly impoverising Nigerians.
Fayose has a recent history of what many described as “hooliganism in Government House” and has not put anybody in doubt that he still nurses grudges against the party that sacked his short-lived political dynasty in Ekiti State.
Popularly known as designer of ‘Ekiti Bat’, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose returned to the media airspace with a huge fist of fury baring his fangs on the APC for what he described as its promotion of election rigging and looking the other way while Nigerians are being killed in their thousands.
Fayose, who was the last governor of Peoples Democratic Party in South West until APC’s internal crisis brought Seyi Makinde in Oyo State last year, was reacting to the APC crisis in which three people are claiming to be the Acting National Chairman.
He said “the party has been displaying power arrogance and treating Nigerians with contempt. This is just the beginning, their matters will be made worse with time.”
In a statement on Thursday, by his Spokesman, Lere Olayinka, the former governor said for Nigeria to return to the path of progress that it was before the APC took over power, “more confusion will still hit the party till it goes into oblivion.”
He pointed out that no one can validly lay claim to the office of the APC National Chairman, in whatever capacity, adding that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must be mindful of being seen as helping the APC to uphold its illegalities.
Fayose, who lamented the killings by bandits, in the North especially Katsina, Kaduna, Zamfara and Sokoto States, added that “God will never be happy with a party that its government is doing nothing to stop the bloodshed, raping of women; including children and destruction of people’s sources of livelihood going on in the country.”
He said; “It is on record that more than 300 Nigerians have been brutally murdered by bandits in the last three weeks and the APC government has done nothing. Rather, Nigerians who raised concern are being insulted by the APC government while those who protested are being arrested and detained.
“God can also not be happy with a party like APC, that its government has not only impoverished Nigerians, but with its inept presidency, plunged the country into debt that future generations will have to pay.
“Most importantly, will God be happy with APC after seeing how elections were rigged since 2015, the latest being in Kogi and Bayelsa States?
“Definitely, their matters will be made worse with time because for Nigeria and its people to return to the path of peace and progress, the APC house of lies that is being nurtured with the blood of Nigerians must collapse.”
