*Asks Ekiti governor to leave Buhari alone
Afenifere lamented that Fayose had reduced Ekiti to ‘a butt of uncanny jokes and fast sliding to be a pariah among other states in Nigeria, despite its God-given endowments.
The Ekiti State chapter of Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio- political and cultural organisation, has asked the controversial Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, to stay at home and find solutions to the problems afflicting the state rather than taking delight in launching verbal attacks on the person and office of a performing, vibrant leader that President Muhammadu Buhari is.
Afenifere spoke just as Presidency, asked on a Channels Television’s Politics Today programme to respond to Fayose’s call for Buhari’s resignation, cut the Ekiti State governor to size saying, “We don’t talk when Fayose talks because he is desperate for publicity.”
The group, which described the governor’s verbal attack against the President as an ‘attention-seeking gimmick’, also called on people in the state to seek divine intervention in resolving the ongoing fuel crisis that had paralysed economic and transport activities in the state.
In a press statement on Wednesday, signed by its Chairman, Elder Yemi Alade, and Publicity Secretary, Chief Biodun Akin-Fasae, the Afenifere lamented that Fayose had reduced Ekiti to ‘a butt of uncanny jokes and fast sliding to be a pariah among other states in Nigeria, despite its God-given endowments’.
The chieftains, who prayed God to heal their land, said the scarcity of fuel unleashed on the citizenry by the governor’s face-off with petrol marketers could have been resolved through dialogue, rather than armed tactics which culminated in destruction of some filling stations by suspected thugs.
“Currently, the economic activities of the state have run berserk due to executive misapplication of strategic management of human and business relationship.
“This is what is called executive recklessness; and this is very unacceptable. We wonder the whereabouts of Governor Ayo Fayose during the celebration of Democracy Day, a national activity. He was conspicuously absent from Ekiti for days, only to resurface to abuse President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting him to resign because of ill-health.
“At the same time, he degraded his office by his statement on the veracity of the Chibok girls, saying it was a ploy to rattle the former President, Goodluck Jonathan. All these outbursts by our governor belittle our collective humanity as a state,” the statement said.
