Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele
Fayose has dismissed the reports that he shunned President Muhammadu Buhari's
meeting with governors of the 36 states in the country.
Buhari on Friday, August 25, met with the governor at the State House, Abuja.
The Chairman of the PDP's
Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi and other leaders of the opposition party
were also present at the meeting.
Fayose said he was unable to attend the meeting because it clashed with his chieftaincy installation.
Fayose said he was unable to attend the meeting because it clashed with his chieftaincy installation.
“For those insinuating that I shunned the President’s meeting with governors, I didn’t. I had my installation as Apesin of Ado Ekiti slated for today,” the Governor wrote on Twitter on Friday.
He added that “guests were
already in Ekiti since yesterday for the chieftaincy title installation before
I received notice of the meeting with the President.”
Buhari at the meeting said the
governors have been “doing their best”.
The President, who had earlier
met with leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All
Progressives Congress, APC, said, “I have just addressed members of APC and PDP
senior officials that came to welcome me back.
“I thank you very much for the
national approach in your leadership, those who are leaders at political level
and those who are chief executives in their respective states”.
Fayose is one of the major
critics of the Buhari administration. He had insisted that the President went
into coma while in London, a statement the Presidency since denied.
Apparently chieftaincy titles are more important than national issues.
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