Dino’s Arrest, $496m ECA Withdrawal: ‘Anarchy Looms Under Buhari’ – Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said unless something is done urgently, President Muhammadu Buhari may lead Nigeria into “anarchy” in no distant time.
Fayose said this in the light of recent happenings in country. The governor called for attention regarding the recent killing of over 18 worshipers including two catholic priests in Benue State and the controversial re-arrest of Senator Dino Melaye by SARS operatives on Tuesday in Abuja.
The governor equally criticized the Federal Government’s alleged withdrawal of $496 billion from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) without the approval of the National Assembly.
Fayose, in a statement by his media aide, said: “Under this government of President Buhari, the constitution is on suspension.”
He said; “If half of the level aggressiveness being shown by the Police on the arrest of Senator Dino Melaye because of seeming concocted allegations is shown on the killings by herdsmen across the North Central States and other parts of the country, the rampaging killer herdsmen that are even killing policemen would have been brought under control.
Fayose said, “it is alarming and curious that Father Joseph Gor, one of the Catholic Priests that were murdered in Benue State today, raised alarm on January 3, 2018, through his Facebook account on the occupation of Mbalom community by herdsmen. Yet, the priest was killed!”
“Why is the federal government allowing this seeming ethnic cleansing in Benue and other middle-belt States, such that President Buhari and the entire members of his government do not see the wanton killings as anything to be worried about?
“When did Nigeria degenerate to the level that people can no longer worship peacefully in their churches or go to their farms? When did Nigeria become a state of anomie where people are killed even after raising alarm that there was threat to their existence?”
On the alleged illegal withdrawal of $496 million from the Excess Crude Account, the governor said; “One day, this federal government will even stop releasing statutory allocations to States and Local councils. They are behaving as if the constitution of the country is already suspended and this should worry lovers of democracy in Nigeria.
“Despite that Local Councils in Ekiti State were in court, challenging the federal government decision to withdraw $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account and the Attorney General of the Federation had already entered appearance in the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1264/17 that came up for hearing before Justice Binta Nyako on Monday, $496 million was taken from the Excess Crude Account.
“Only the National Assembly and the judiciary can save themselves from being turned to a non-existing institutions as already being done by the President,” he added.