Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with the Niger Delta Militants, especially the Niger Delta Avengers so as to end hostilities in the oil rich region.
This, he said, will also save Nigeria’s economy from imminent collapse.
Fayose said the president’s failure to attend the flag-off of the clean-up Ogoni project today, because of the threat from the Niger Delta militants was a demonstration that the President had surrendered to the superior powers of the militants.
Fayose, according to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said it was shameful and embarrassing that a retired military general could succumb to threat from militants despite what he told Nigerians that he was going to lead from the fronts.
The governor, who wondered why the president was not always interested in visiting states in the country as against his penchant for overseas trips, added that it was time that the President stopped acting like a foreign president.
Stating that the president’s approach to civil unrests of any kind under the government was causing more security problems in the country, he added that, “the President cannot afford to continue to talk tough on issues that dialogue can resolve.”
“Now that the president has surrendered to the threat and intimidation of the Niger Delta Avengers, he should emulate late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua by having a roundtable talks with the Niger Delta militants.
“By not going to Ogoni today, because of threat from the NDA, our president has shown that he is actually afraid of the militants and the best thing to do in a situation like this is to dialogue with the militants so as to save Nigeria economy from imminent collapse.
“It also shows that the president’s ability to secure Nigeria and its people is doubtful, because if the president could succumb to threat from militants and abandon his official function for his deputy, ordinary Nigerians should seek help elsewhere.
“The president should therefore save Nigeria the agony of military misadventure in the Niger Delta by holding dialogue with the militants with a view to resolving their grievances.”
Fayose also reiterated that “the Niger Delta region as at today is still the golden goose laying the golden egg on which all other regions are surviving.
“Diversification as good as it sounds, takes time. We need to appreciate these regions as our only source of income,” he added.
True talk Oga Fayose even with all the foreign advise he wouldn't listening
ReplyDeleteOur President has a harden heart like that of Pharoah, infact i weep for my country non of these leaders are role moder
ReplyDeleteTruth is very bitter and distasteful, but the ability to swallow the pride of the truth and accept the facts with all its genuiety is what makes a good leader. Buhari can be a good leader to be remembered in Nigeria history if and only if he can free himself of party bondage, parties supremacy torso or struggle and loyalties to the cabal. No matter what it may cause him, even if it means his life to right the wrongs of the ages Nigerians will ever be grateful. As a retired general be brave enough to be the front liner else history will have you as the one who brought the country to her knell. Kudos to Gov. Ayodele Fayose for your doggedness, charisma and boldness in telling the truth as it is irrespective of the personality involve. Thank you so much, well done.
ReplyDeleteFayose, you have a home grown problem in your Ekiti State which, instead of negotiating with the government workers who are on strike, you rather sent thugs to beat up the union leader. Hypocrites like you dishing out advise you wouldn't take to solve your State problems.
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