Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has carpeted President Muhammadu Buhari over claim that some Nigerians
were deliberately inflicting hardship on Nigerians
by creating the current fuel scarcity.
Buhari also said that he was
determined to get to the root of what he described as “collective blackmail”,
telling the President to “take responsibility and stop blame game for once.”
While speaking on the ongoing
fuel scarcity President Buhari had said in his New Year Broadcast that “Some of
our compatriots chose this period of inflict severe hardship on us all by
creating unnecessary fuel scarcity across the country and that …whatever groups
that are behind this manipulated hardship will be prevented from doing so
again.”
In a statement issued on Tuesday,
by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
Governor Fayose said,
“The president should rather take
responsibility, apologize toNigerians and stop blaming others for his failures
because apologizing when you are wrong is the hallmark of honest and sincere
leaders. What
is wrong if he had said sorry to
Nigerians who are at the receiving end of his bad policies? But in the case of
President Buhari, he will always have someone to blame for
his own failure.
“As a military Head of State, he
blamed former President Shehu Shagari government. Since he assumed office, he
has been blaming his
predecessor. And now that he
can’t provide fuel for Nigerians, despite claiming to have removed fuel
subsidy, he is blaming some unknown Nigerians. When is he going to be man
enough to stop his blame game?”
The governor said rather than
blaming people, what Nigerians expected to hear from the President was what had
been done and being done to stop the loss of millions of jobs and hunger that
is ravaging the land as well as wanton killings going on across the country.
Governor Fayose said “Nigerians
are aware that petrol is scarce across the country because the federal
government deliberately reduced supply since it is only the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that is importing the product. This is aimed to
forcing increment in pump price from N145 to N185 per litre on Nigerians.”
Speaking further, the governor
said; “The other time, Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s said that the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was bearing the cost of fuel
subsidy and not the
federal government and we asked;
what is the difference between NNPC and the federal government? Who is NNPC and
who is federal government? Is NNPC now an autonomous agency of the federal
government?”
“Nigerians are tired of Buhari’s
repetitive speeches and unfulfilled promises. Nigerians are crying that he
should give them responsive and competent Cabinet.
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