The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti
state on Monday said Governor Ayodele
Fayose’s conducts were threats to national
security.
state on Monday said Governor Ayodele
Fayose’s conducts were threats to national
security.
It said the governor’s recent utterances and
actions suggest acts of sabotage targeted at
rendering national institutions ineffective to
perform their statutory roles for effective
government in a federal set-up.
The State Publicity Secretary of the party,
Taiwo Olatunbosun, said this in a statement
issued in Ado Ekiti.
The statement noted that Fayose’s unguided
serial statements had exposed him as a man
fighting a lone battle against the Federal
Government over alleged selfish motives.
He said such motives were targeted at putting
millions of Nigerians in jeopardy of instability
in an already tottering economy.
He cited the governor’s alleged death wish for
President Muhammadu Buhari at a rally held at
Fajuyi Square, Ado-Ekiti, over the weekend to
welcome the detained member of the House of
Assembly, Akanni Afolabi, to the state capital
as a case study.
Olatunbosun regretted that besides the
governor inciting Ekiti people against the
operatives of the Department of State Security
(DSS), he had also for umpteenth time,
threatened to bring Buhari’s government down
if any attempt was made to probe sundry
alleged crimes levelled against him.
“We have heard of reports of Governor Fayose
inciting the people to stone the operatives of
the DSS anywhere they are seen.
“This is besides saying many unprintable things
about the President, such as saying that he
would soon die, and declaring the DG of DSS,
Lawal Musa Daura, a personal non-grata in
Ekiti State.
“It is regrettable that Fayose cannot separate
his personal views as a man constantly at war
with the Nigerian law from the views of lawful
Ekiti people, who are ready to submit
themselves to the Nigerian law where the rule
of law and good governance flourish,” the party
said.
Accusing the governor of running a government
built on his personal image, the APC said this
misconception had “robbed Ekiti people the
quality leadership with the right mindset to see
governance beyond the prism of self-
glorification.”
“This failure to see governance beyond personal
appeal of the governor is costing our state
good governance for the development of our
people and her deserved place of honour in this
country.
“That is why the governor is wasting state
resources on helicopter charter to ferry an
accused person, Akanni Afolabi, from Abuja to
Ekiti after which he took six pages of several
newspapers on frivolous adverts to publish
court records on the accused’s bail application
and topped it with the donation of a new car
to same Akanni, who is still under investigation
over several criminal cases.
“Fayose has appointed himself national
opposition leader just because he wants to
help himself in his many criminal cases against
the nation’s law,” it said.
Neither the governor, nor his aides or the state
government had yet responded to the APC
statement.
– NAN
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