Buhari destroying Nigeria’s image for cheap global recognition – Fayose
Ekiti
State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the last six months of
President Mohammadu Buhari’s administration as that of “deceitful
change,” lamenting that the President was destroying the image of
Nigeria and its people for cheap international recognition.
The
governor, who also described the claim by the Minister of Finance, Mrs
Kemi Adeosun, that the ministry did not have details of any fund
recovered from officials of the immediate past government of Dr Goodluck
Jonathan, as a vindication of his position that the President was not
saying the truth, said Nigerians must ask the President where the
so-called looted fund was paid and who made the payments.
He said;
“If the Ministry of Finance is not aware of any recovered fund, it is
either those who purportedly made the refund did so by loading cash into
Ghana-Must-Go bags and dropping the bags in the President’s bedroom or
the fund was lodged into the Central Bank without records.”
Speaking
through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said “the only areas President Buhari has
recorded tremendous achievements are areas of political persecution,
disobedience of court order and desperate bid to turn the country to a
one-party state as evident in the Kogi State election, which the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), headed by Buhari’s
kinsman staged managed and muddled up.”
He said, “in the last six
months, a section of the judiciary has been so openly manipulated by the
Buhari’s administration such that different judgments were given in
similar cases, with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) getting negative
judgments while the All Progressives Congress (APC) secured positive
judgements in cases with similar facts and evidence.”
While
sympathising with Nigerians, who he said were deceived to vote for the
APC and were now bearing the brunt of the six months of Buhari’s
administration’s cluelessness, Governor Fayose said; “It is painful that
Nigerians are being made to suffer great hardships from fuel scarcity,
thousands of people are still being killed in the North by Boko Haram,
Chibok Girls are still not found, power supply has dropped, and above
all; the unity of the country is being threatened as admitted by the
Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, yet all our President does is
junketing around the globe.”
Speaking further, the governor said;
“Honestly, this change promised by President Buhari and his party, APC
is nothing other than ‘one chance change’ and this has been attested to
even by highly respected international news media.
“For
instance, Bloomberg, in a report two days ago said hopes have fizzled
in Buhari’s ability to turn around Nigeria and that money that flowed
into stocks and bonds in Nigeria, which McKinsey & Co. says could
become one of the world’s 20 biggest economies by 2030, is now fleeing
as growth prospects diminish along with oil prices.
“Under
President Buhari, the United States-based investment banking and
financial services multinational J P Morgan ejected Nigeria from its
Government Bond Index for Emerging Markets (GBI-EM) with effect from the
end of October this year.
“Under Buhari, the future of workers
are being threatened by the APC government plot to reduce minimum wage
and retrench workers.
“Under Buhari, oil subsidy is to be removed next year January, thereby causing further hardship for the people.
“Under
President Buhari, multi-national companies are laying-off thousands of
workers while contractors working for the Federal Government have left
their sites.
“Yet, what the President does is to junket from one
country to another to cast aspersion on Nigeria and its people and one
wonders how foreign investors will come to a country that its President
says is peopled by rogues.”
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