Buhari Settled Northerners Who Voted Him With Our Collective Wealth -Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of settling Northerners who “manipulated votes” for his 2015 presidential election victory with the collective wealth of Nigerians.

Fayose, in a statement on Thursday by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, said having settled the North, that President Buahri had allegedly begun making moves to please those he thinks can help him return to power in 2019 from other regions.

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The former governor said Nigerians are being led by a “chop-I-chop” government of settlement.

“Since those who manipulated votes for President Buhari, especially in the North, had already been settled with our collective wealth, it appears that it is now the turn of those they believed will assist them to retain power in 2019.

“If President Buhari could acknowledge that he had been working with a trimmed cabinet to avoid waste, one wonders the improvement that he has brought to bear on the country’s economy to warrant his new decision to expand the Federal Executive Council to bring in more supporters of the APC and settle the party members with other federal appointments,” he said.

Governor Fayose equally recalled a statement credited to the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), where the latter claimed that the APC could not fulfill its promises because more than half of Buhari’s administration were dominated by former PDP members.

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“Even though the PDP is already emerging stronger from its 2015 electoral misfortune, we won’t mind having our members who left for the APC back in our party.

“Going by Col. Ali’s comment, those who do not belong to President Buhari’s original platform, the Congress for Progressive Change, are seen as strangers in the Buhari-led government.

“Buhari’s men do not want anyone else, apart from those with whom they ran the CPC and that has been reiterated by Col. Ali, a close ally of the President. What remains to be done by those Col. Ali referred to as reasons the APC government of Buhari has failed is for them to summon courage and return to where they were before they moved to the APC,” said the governor.

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