The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described what it as “the ceaseless attacks and insults on President Muhammadu Buhari” by Governor Ayo Fayose as “a devious bad-mouthing and reckless diversionary tactics to take public attention from his many alleged constitutional breaches.”
It said such acts cannot save the governor from facing justice over his many infractions on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement that the party was not surprised by the governor’s antics in his relentless media attacks on the President, noting, however, that false accusations and sophistry would not distract the Federal Government from pursuing its anti-graft agenda and free the country of official impunity.
“Impunity has wreaked havoc in the polity resulting in some cases to crimes against humanity. Fayose as a promoter of impunity is only trying to employ his basket-mouth antics to blackmail the President in his witch-hunting accusation in the media to pre-empt dispensation of justice in his financial crimes, acts of impunity and crimes against humanity,” Olatunbosun explained.
Frowning at Fayose’s new posture as an apostle of the rule of law urging the President to respect the constitution in his anti-corruption crusade, the APC spokesman said that it was ironic that the governor, who “is a serial law breaker, could suddenly turn around to be a self-appointed advocate of the rule of law”.
“It is laughable and an insult on the intelligence of Nigerians for Fayose to accuse President Buhari of persecuting the opposition simply because he wants to recover stolen funds from the nation’s treasury and punish looters.
“Fayose has persecuted members of the opposition in Ekiti State to no end. He runs them out of town as promised by declaring them wanted over trumped-up murder charges.
“He seized monetised vehicles of opposition members in the last administration and recently ejected them from their houses at a government housing estate disregarding their subsisting mortgage agreement with the Housing Corporation, even as no fewer than three opposition members are in prison over Fayose-induced trumped-up charges,” Olatunbosun explained.
He added that it was a gratuitous insult to Nigerians for Fayose to accuse Buhari of persecution, saying, however, that Nigerians were not surprised at his tantrums against the President as he did to his own mother even when many PDP governors attested to Buhari’s even-handedness and fairness in the handling of his policies.
“If Fayose can insult his own mother publicly by saying she wore pampers as a result of old age, who else can he not insult? Who can he not blackmail just to get away with his illegalities?
“This is somebody who once led thugs to invade the office of the Chief Judge of the state, beat up his secretary and tore court records and thereafter blackmailed the judge of collecting N200 million bribe to return guilty verdict on him over his perjury case.
“Nigerians have not forgotten how Fayose beat up and tore the suit of another high court judge because he wanted to stop his eligibility case.
“Fayose, notorious for having the greatest number of alleged criminal cases in courts among Nigerian executives, is a governor who successfully prevented another arm of government, the legislature, from functioning for seven months till its term expired,” Olatunbosun added.
