Governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose, has asked Nigerians to allow
President Buhari go back to his village, Daura in Katsina state to rest
so that he would not be sent to his early grave.
Reacting to the
cancellation of the Federal Executive council meeting, Fayose who spoke
at a meeting with some PDP chieftains in his office in Ado Ekiti today,
said he has no apologies for all the things he said when President
Buhari was on medical vacation in the UK. He maintains that President
Buhari was in coma in the UK.
"Today, they have cancelled the Federal Executive Council meeting.
You cannot hide the truth forever, it will reveal itself someday. You
cannot continue to deceive Nigerians. Every word that has come out of my
mouth before the President returns, I have no apology for them.
President Buhari was indeed in coma and one of those who visited him
said his recovery is a miracle, that shows that he was indeed very sick.
Let Buhari go back to Daura and rest.
Don’t send him to an early grave.
Buhari is not old enough to be my father, my mother is older than
Buhari, he cannot be my father, he can only be my uncle. I am close to
60. I stand by all I have said about the President.
We are glad he is
back, but don’t over flog him. I am not a sycophant and I stand to speak
for Nigeria. Somebody must be able to speak on behalf of the poor
masses. This was how they deceived us during the time of Yar’Adua. I am
not an hypocrite and I will never be one. This country deserves a very
healthy person. The office of the president is not for a sick man.
The
president is tired and should be allowed to resign and go and rest. I
have said it severally and without apologies. Everything I said when the
President was away, I stand by them.
The president actually went into
coma and this was attested to by what one of the governors who visited
him when he was abroad said that his recovery was a miracle. When
somebody’s recovery is a miracle it simply means something very serious
happened to the person.
“since the President himself cannot disclose his
health status and also the extent of his ailment, it apparently shows
that there is so much to hide. Not until civil societies and people like
us started making noise. You can’t be our president without us knowing
what is happening to you. So, for me, the president went to coma July 6.
Today, they can come back and organise rallies and all that; they
attested to the fact the President recovered by miracle which we are
glad about.
We are happy that he is back But when you look physically at
the President, you will see that he is emaciated tired and weak. You
don’t have to be president at all cost, when you are tired. You go
home."
Speaking further, he said "I don’t want to talk about 2019′ but I
want to tell you that Nigeria needs a president that is agile and
strong. The job is too much for an individual that does not have what it
takes. It is a common saying that health is wealth. Everything is about
health.
We wish him well and we want him to recover but the President
should throw in the towel , resign and go home. You see they said he
would come back and resume in his office, he resumed in his office, they
said rats have taken over his office! A presidential office, rats took
over his office!
Now they said he is working from home, tomorrow, they
would say he is coming from bedroom. All these stories are ending up in a
make believe. In a country where you have so much to do, I m not going
to be a sycophants here. I am going to be on the side of the common man,
the President is tired.
I feel for the president like every other
elderly persons, or even people who are not elderly. They could be sick.
But when it comes to th e issue of governing a country. There is so
much responsibility to this and we must equally be able to stand up and
say if the president does not have what it takes to continue, he should
throw in the towel".
Fayose said he would not honor an invitation to go and greet President Buhari
”I cannot go and greet the president if invited and the reason is
that such action would be misinterpreted to be something else. So, it is
good for me to wish him well from a distant and be able to tell
Nigerians the truth”he said
On the allegations that he vowed to commit suicide if President Buhari returns, Fayose said.
"I can’t commit suicide because of an old man. Such are from
miscreants on the social media. Let me tell you expressly, why would I
commit suicide? I cannot commit suicide because of my mother. Even if
they are burying my mother now, I will cleverly stay away from the grave
so that I won’t fall into it. I can’t commit suicide because of Buhari.
I never said that and will never made such statement. Truth is that the
pressure from me and many other Nigerians made the president to return
home. They have been treating this matter under the table forgetting
that the life of a president is an open book that can be read by
everybody and anybody.
What I am saying in effect is that it is in the
overall interest of everybody that we have a president that is strong
enough to do the job, ”.
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