Controversial
People's Democratic Party chieftain and Ekiti State governor has
criticized President Buhari's trip to The Gambia for peace talks with
the dictator, Yahya Jammeh.
Presidents Yahya Jammeh and Muhammadu Buhari
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described President
Muhammadu Buhari’s involvement in the meeting with President Yahya
Jammeh to persuade him to concede defeat as an aberration, saying; “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.”
The governor 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 and not someone like Buhari, who lost election three times and
never conceded defeat, according to the Vanguard.
According to his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, 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 yesterday.
He said “with what happened in Rivers State last weekend, it is
certain that votes ofNigerians will no longer be allowed to count as
the APC cabal 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 said even though President Jammeh behaved
dishonourably by reneging on his initial promise to accept defeat,
involvement of President Buhari in the meeting to persuade him to step
down was the height of hypocrisy.
The governor said 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 chinashop,” he said.
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