to learn from the daily killings by herdsmen in All Progressives
Congress, APC-controlled states of Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, Kaduna and
Nasarawa, warning that voting APC in the July 14 election is an
invitation to chaos, killing, raping of people's wives and daughters
by the killer herdsmen.
Fayose stated this during a meeting with teachers, civil servants and
local government workers in Ado Ekiti.
In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi,
on Wednesday, he called on the Ekiti people to reject APC and its
candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to avert Ekiti becoming another Benue,
Plateau, Zamfara and Kaduna states where the number of widows and
orphans are increasing daily.
The governor said since the killings started, the Federal Government
had not been able to stop it and that the governors who belong to the
APC were being careful not to offend the Presidency.
His words, "We all can see how the herdsmen have continued to daily
kill, maim and rape innocent citizens. Even toddlers are not spared.
"In Zamfara State for instance, Governor Abdulaziz Yari, who is also
the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum, recently said he was
resigning as the Chief Security Officer of his state. The truth is
that the governors know what to do but cannot do it because they don't
want to offend the Presidency.
"In Benue, burial of people killed by the herdsmen has become a daily
occurrence. Many communities have been deserted and people now live in
IDPs camps and the governor has resigned to fate because it is an APC
state.
"When the killer herdsmen invaded the farm of Chief Olu Falae, setting
it ablaze, the governor couldn't do anything because he did not want
to offend the Presidency that helped him to power.
"In Kaduna, another APC state, the killer herdsmen and bandits are
slaughtering the people like fowl and the government can not stop it.
This is for you to know that there is no APC-controlled state where
the herdsmen have not become terror to the people."
Fayose asked, "is this kind of situation you want in Ekiti?. Of
course, the answer is No. I am very sure people can now see the
difference between the PDP government and the APC. The PDP was in
power for 16 years and the security never became so moribund as it is
now under the Buhari administration. The government is now noted for
condemning but cannot stop the killings. Only insensitive people will
vote APC.
"The APC-controlled Federal Government has succeeded in producing more
widows, and orphans in three years of its existence than 58 years of
Nigeria's existence as a nation. Not even during the Nigerian civil
war was this figure recorded."
The Governor told the people that he did not want Ekiti to become
another state of widows and orphans, and urged them to reject the APC
at the polls.
He said, "The incursion of the herdsmen into the state to destroy
farmlands and kill the people have been checked by my administration
The APC government is not what you should welcome at all. If you allow
APC to come and govern Ekiti State, you would have just invited to the
state killers, rapists and plunderers of our commonwealth.
"If this happens, Fayemi, who believes it is the rigging of polls by
the Presidency that can make him governor, would not do anything that
can upset the Presidency," he said.
Governor Fayose therefore charged the people of the state to vote for
Prof Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the next
governor of the state.
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