You’ve Become A Parrot, Afenifere Carpets Fayose Over Anti-Buhari Comments

Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-political organisation, has blasted the governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose over his frequent criticism of the president Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

The Yoruba group, in a statement issued on Wednesday by Yemi Alade, its chairman, and Biodun Akin-Fasae, the publicity secretary, said the governor has become “a parrot” who talks at all times, in and out of season.

The group, advised the governor to rather channel his energy on addressing the problems in his state rather than attacking President Buhari.

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The group particularly urged Fayose to face the lingering fuel scarcity caused by his dispute with Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (PMAN) confronting the state.

The group said, “It is shameful that Ekiti has become a butt of uncanny jokes and fast sliding to be a pariah among other states in Nigeria despite its God-given endowments,” the statement read.

“We wonder the whereabouts of Governor Ayo Fayose during the celebration of Democracy Day, a national activity. He was conspicuously absent from Ekiti for days only to resurface to abuse President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to resign because of ill-health.

“Our governor is now a parrot who must talk at all times in and out of season; we believe that Mr. Governor should devote more time to think on how to move Ekiti forward instead of focusing and dissipating his energy on irrelevant issues.

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“Afenifere also wish to sympathize with Ekiti workers that none of whom has received any salary this year, some since October 2016. And yet the governor feels unconcerned so far he can dole out a thousand naira and a cup of rice to the famished workers in the name of his stomach infrastructure, which many have described as a fraud.

“Currently the economic activities of the state has run berserk due to executive misapplication of strategic management of human and business relationship.

“Now, no one is sure of what happens next because of the misunderstanding between government and fuel marketers which has now degenerated into chaos.

“And this has been going on for two full weeks now and unfortunately, government is feeling comfortable and justifying its strategy by pulling down several of the fuel stations for flimsy excuse which not a few have interpreted as mere political vendetta and mere braggadocio on the part of the government.”

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