Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has said he has nothing personal against former head of state and the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
Fayose in a statement on Thursday said he is not wishing Buhari dead as widely believed in many quarters.
He, however, maintained that Buhari is too old to govern a complex country like Nigeria.
Signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the statement quoted Fayose explaining that he was opposed to the emergence of Buhari as president because Nigerians did not deserve a leader that will govern by proxy.
Fayose hinged his fears on his experience during events that surrounded the selection of the party’s presidential flag bearer in 2007.
Fayose, recalled that as chairman of the adhoc committee tasked to produce a suitable candidate, his team did not recommend the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua, since it was aware of the late president’s health.
He said: “I remember then as the ad hoc chairman of the PDP committee that shopped for the presidential candidate to replace former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a crop of suitable, brilliant, healthy and competent northern politicians in the PDP were shortlisted by me for Obasanjo to pick from, but he overruled the list and asked me to contact the late Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua because he preferred him.
“In fairness to the late president, he objected to the offer on health ground, but Obasanjo insisted that he must be the president”.
The governor inisisted that the criticisms trailing his mode of campaign for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan, are unnecessary, accusing the APC leaders promoting Buhari’s candidature as insincere.
Fayose accused the APC leadership of placing personal interests far above national interests, adding that he owed nobody any apology for exposing their hypocrisy.
He further alleged that the APC had not only packaged lies and tried to foist such on Nigerians, but had compromised the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to rig the elections if it had held on February 14.
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