The Ekiti State Governor, Chief
Ayodele Fayose, has urged Ekiti people to learn from the daily killings by
herdsmen in All Progressives Congress, APC-controlled states of Benue, Plateau,
Zamfara, Kaduna and Nasarawa, warning that voting APC in the July 14 election
is an invitation to chaos, killing, raping of people’s wives and daughters by
the killer herdsmen.
Fayose stated this during a
meeting with teachers, civil servants and local government workers in Ado
Ekiti.
In a statement issued by his
Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on Wednesday, he called on the Ekiti
people to reject APC and its candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to avert Ekiti
becoming another Benue, Plateau, Zamfara and Kaduna states where the number of
widows and orphans are increasing daily.
The governor said since the
killings started, the Federal Government had not been able to stop it and that
the governors who belong to the APC were being careful not to offend the
Presidency.
His words, “We all can see how
the herdsmen have continued to daily kill, maim and rape innocent citizens.
Even toddlers are not spared.
“In Zamfara State for instance,
Governor Abdulaziz Yari, who is also the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’
Forum, recently said he was resigning as the Chief Security Officer of his
state. The truth is that the governors know what to do but cannot do it because
they don’t want to offend the Presidency.
“In Benue, burial of people
killed by the herdsmen has become a daily occurrence. Many communities have
been deserted and people now live in IDPs camps and the governor has resigned
to fate because it is an APC state.
“When the killer herdsmen invaded
the farm of Chief Olu Falae, setting it ablaze, the governor couldn’t do
anything because he did not want to offend the Presidency that helped him to
power.
“In Kaduna, another APC state,
the killer herdsmen and bandits are slaughtering the people like fowl and the
government can not stop it. This is for you to know that there is no APC-controlled
state where the herdsmen have not become terror to the people.”
Fayose asked, “is this kind of
situation you want in Ekiti?. Of course, the answer is No. I am very sure
people can now see the difference between the PDP government and the APC. The PDP
was in power for 16 years and the security never became so moribund as it is
now under the Buhari administration. The government is now noted for condemning
but cannot stop the killings. Only insensitive people will vote APC.
“The APC-controlled Federal
Government has succeeded in producing more widows, and orphans in three years
of its existence than 58 years of Nigeria’s existence as a nation. Not even
during the Nigerian civil war was this figure recorded.”
The Governor told the people that
he did not want Ekiti to become another state of widows and orphans, and urged
them to reject the APC at the polls.
He said, “The incursion of the
herdsmen into the state to destroy farmlands and kill the people have been
checked by my administration The APC government is not what you should welcome
at all. If you allow APC to come and govern Ekiti State, you would have just
invited to the state killers, rapists and plunderers of our commonwealth.
“If this happens, Fayemi, who
believes it is the rigging of polls by the Presidency that can make him
governor, would not do anything that can upset the Presidency,” he said.
Governor Fayose therefore charged
the people of the state to vote for Prof Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, as the next governor of the state.
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