Governor
Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, who seems the loudest opposition voice
against President Mohammadu Buhari’s government, has said that his
agitation and revelation about what had happened to the President while
away in London, was responsible for the return of President Buhari on
Saturday.
Fayose, who said this on Wednesday, when
speaking to leaders of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) at the
government office, said he stands by all his claims about the President
being in coma on July 6.
He said he had no apology whatsoever for all he has said about the President.
Affirming
this in a press release from his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu
Adelusi, the governor who reiterated his call for President Buhari’s
resignation, said: “If not for our efforts Buhari wouldn’t have returned
now. Buhari is sick and tired and even his physical appearance betrayed
this and he needs to go home and rest.
“Today, they have
cancelled the Federal Executive Council meeting. You cannot hide the
truth forever, it will reveal itself someday. You cannot continue to
deceive Nigerians.
“Every word that has come out of my mouth
before the President’s return, I have no apology for them. President
Buhari was indeed in coma and one of those who visited him said his
recovery is a miracle, that shows that he was indeed very sick.
“Let
Buhari go back to Daura and rest. Don’t send him to early grave. Buhari
is not old enough to be my father, my mother is older than Buhari, he
cannot be my father, he can only be my uncle. I am close to 60. I stand
by all I have said about the President. We are glad he is back, but
don’t over flog him.
“I am not a sycophant and I stand to speak
for Nigeria. Somebody must be able to speak on behalf of the poor
masses. This was how they deceived us during the time of Yar’Adua. I am
not a hypocrite and I will never be one. This country deserves a very
healthy person. The office of the president is not for a sick man. The
president is tired and should be allowed to resign and go and rest,” he
said details later.
“I have said it severally and without
apologies. Everything I said when the President was away, I stand by
them. The president actually went into coma and this was attested to by
what one of the governors who visited him when he was abroad said that
his recovery was a miracle. When somebody’s recovery is a miracle it
simply means something very serious happened to the person.
“Since
the President himself cannot disclose his health status and also the
extent of his ailment, it apparently shows that there is so much to
hide. Not until civil societies and people like us started making noise.
You can’t be our president without us knowing what is happening to you.
So, for me, the president went to coma July 6. Today, they can come
back and organise rallies and all that; they attested to the fact the
President recovered by miracle which we are glad about. We are happy th
at he is back But when you look physically look at the President he is
physically. You will see that he is emaciated tired and weak.
“You
don’t have to be president at all cost, when you are tired. You go
home. I don’t want to talk about 2019′ but I want to tell you that
Nigeria needs a president that is agile and strong. The job is too much
for an individual that does not have what it takes. It is a common
saying that health is wealth. Everything is about health. We wish him
well and we want him to recover but the President should throw in the
towel , resign and go home.
“You see they said he would come back
and resume in his office, he resumed in his office , they said rats
have taken over his office! A presidential office, rats took over his
office!
“Now they said he is working from home, tomorrow, they
would say he is coming from bedroom. All these stories are ending up in a
make believe. In a country where you have so much to do, I m not going
to be a sycophants here. I am going to be on the side of the common man,
the President is tired. I feel for the president like every other
elderly persons, or even people who are not elderly. They could be sick.
But when it comes to the issue of governing a country. There is so much
responsibility to this and we must equally be able to stand up and say
if the president does not have what it takes to continue, he should
throw in the towel.
Asked if he would oblige if invited to see
Buhari, Fayose said: “I cannot go and greet the president if invited and
the reason is that such action would be misinterpreted to be something
else. So, it is good for me to wish him well from a distant and be able
to tell Nigerians the truth.”
Denying that he ever said he would
commit suicide should Buhari returns home as being speculated in the
social media, he said: ” I can’t commit suicide because of an old man.
Such are from miscreants on the social media. Let me tell you expressly,
why would I commit suicide? I cannot commit suicide because of my
mother. Even if they are burying my mother now, I will cleverly stay
away from the grave so that I won’t fall into it.
“I can’t commit
suicide because of Buhari. I never said that and will never made such
statement. Truth is that the pressure from me and many other Nigerians
made the president to return home. They have been treating this matter
under the table forgetting that the life of a president is an open book
that can be read by everybody and anybody. What I am saying in effect is
that it is in the overall interest of everybody that we have a
president that is strong enough to do the job,” Fayose insisted
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