A group known as the Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, on Sunday dispelled claim by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose that President Muhammadu Buhari is plotting to Islamise Nigeria.
In a statement by the group’s head, Prof Ishaq Akintola, the group said the Ekiti State Governor was suffering from “diarrhea of the mouth.”
Fayose had on Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, alleged that the recent trip of Buhari to Saudi Arabia was to formalise ways of Islamising the country.
But Akintola said, “By making such a wild and untenable statement, Fayose has just emerged as the most idle executive governor Nigeria ever had,”
“Even a ten-year old Nigerian child knows the reason for Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia. Turbulence in the price of oil has greatly impoverished Nigeria and Buhari is employing diplomacy to turn round our oil fortune.
“Playing pranks with Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia simply shows that Fayose has lost all sense of objectivity. Like a comedian governor and a court jester primus inter pares, Fayose prefers to cast a wicked joke with the fate of the Nigerian economy.
“But his attempt to whip up religious sentiment has failed woefully because Nigerians know that Fayose is a pathological liar, an unstable politician and an unreliable judge of men.”
Akintola wondered why the Ekiti State Governor did not complain when former President, Goodluck Jonathan while in office visited Jerusalem regularly.
“Nigerians should help us ask Fayose where he was when his erstwhile mentor and former President Jonathan turned Jerusalem to the back-yard of Aso Rock, shuttling between Nigeria and Israel with jet-loads of marabouts and arms money. Was Fayose’s mouth padlocked at that time?” Akintola queried.
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