Fayose To Buhari: Leave Me Out Of Your Messy Fight With Obasanjo

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to leave him out of his messy fight with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He said this in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.

Recall that Buhari recently queried Obasanjo of mismanaging $16bn electricity fund.

Olayinka, in the statement told the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, to steer clear of his boss.

He further challenged Buhari to arrest Obasanjo since he had challenged them to probe him.

He said, “These people should rather fight their battle alone because when they were going to Obasanjo’s house to prostrate for him to get his support, they didn’t remember that he was a despot and that he spent $16bn on power.

“What are they waiting for? As far as we are concerned, Obasanjo and Buhari are allies in the comity of dictators and treasury looters. It was under Obasanjo that Buhari served as the Minister of Petroleum and the NNPC chairman in 1977 and N2.8bn oil money went missing from the accounts of the NNPC in Midlands Bank, United Kingdom. N2.8bn as of that time is like $2.8bn (over N1tr) now!

“It is the height of hypocrisy for Garba Shehu to have said that none of the absurdities recorded under Obasanjo had happened under President Buhari.

“Garba Shehu should tell Nigerians what this government has done differently. Today, Nigeria under President Buhari is now a country where Nigerians are arrested and detained without trial and orders of the court to release them are brazenly disobeyed.

“Judges have been arrested in gestapo manner in the night and dragged into open vans like common criminals, government house and State House of Assembly invaded by armed men of the DSS.

“Most importantly, it is under Buhari’s government that the Legislative Arm of government, which is the symbol of democracy, was rendered impotent such that $1 billion was taken from the Excess Crude Account without approval of the National Assembly and statutory appointments were made without recourse to the National Assembly.”