Governor Fayose Reveals What he has against APC
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has affirmed that he has nothing personal against the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari.
Governor Fayose revealed this via his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, in reaction to the criticisms that have trailed his opposition for the APC presidential candidate.
He said that his actions are only to expose some selfish APC leaders as their manifesto was packed with deceit and their plan to rig the election if it had held on February 14.
He also said that the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, chose Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as his successor because he preferred him to other candidates.
He said: “I remember then as the ad hoc chairman of the PDP committee to shop 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.
”I am not against the North, rather if Obasanjo had picked from the list of names submitted by my committee to him, certainly, a northerner, replacing Obasanjo would have ruled this country till 2015. As an insider who saw everything and who again have noticed the repeat of the episode of 2006, I must talk.
“There is nothing bad in allowing President Jonathan from the South to complete the two terms he is allowed constitutionally and in 2019, a real candidate from the North, not one manipulated by the South-West APC, will emerge to take over. These APC leaders operate in deceit, the well being of this country is secondary to them. The is the party that ruled Ekiti for just only four years and grounded the state with huge debts.
“That 2006 scenario is again being re-enacted with Obasanjo and APC leaders branding General Buhari to be the president of this country.
“I am not wishing General Buhari dead, but the fact remains that he is too old to govern a complex country like Nigeria and we don’t want a president that will govern by proxy.”
