“The world need to know how much stolen fund was returned, Buhari still a dictator” - Fayose

Ayodele Fayose as a form of reprimand on the president over a statement attributed to Buhari as saying that many of those who looted public treasury in the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan had started returning the stolen funds to the government.

The governor of Ekiti State Fayose in a statement on November 26th 2015, through his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, urged the president to rather stay at home to govern the country instead of junketing around the globe and “acting like a saint” before the international community, Premium Times reports.

The Ekiti boss however called on the president to as a matter of fact make it public to both Nigerians and the world at large how much was returned and the looters who returned the stolen funds.

Governor Fayose added: “Since the purported looted funds belong to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it ought to have been paid into the Federation Account and shared by the Federal, State and Local Government.

“President Buhari should tackle the collapsed economy of the country headlong instead of going from one country to another, casting aspersion on Nigerians with his ‘sing-song’ of fighting corruption.”

He urged the president to stop acting like the sole administrator of Nigeria and the only honest man among Nigerians, stressing that Nigerians are desirous of concrete developments, not rhetoric about fight against corruption that was only being used to persecute perceived political enemies of the president both in the Peoples Democratic Party and within the APC”.

The governor said: “Buhari’s statement in Tehran, Iran, that it was easier for him as a military head of state in 1984 to arrest corrupt individuals and put them in protective custody was a pointer to the fact that he has not changed from the dictator that he was then.

“The truth is that Buhari did not fight corruption in 1984. Rather, he persecuted great Nigerians, especially the likes Chief Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ambrose Ali, Chief Bisi Onabanjo, Alhaji Lateef Jakande and Chief Bola Ige, who served the people meritoriously.

Fayose asked if President Buhari was justifying the imprisonment of Dr Alex Ekwueme who was only the vice president or the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader like Chief Bisi Akande who only served as a deputy governor.

He said: “As at today, Nigerians are faced with serious hardship occasioned by prolonged fuel scarcity that the federal government does not have any solution to. Multinational companies are laying-off thousands of workers while contractors working for the federal government have left their sites. Yet, what we get to hear from the president is noise in foreign lands about non-existing fight against corruption.

“Honestly, this president should get to work and stop lying to Nigerians and the international community,” he said.

Meanwhile, the minister of petroleum resources, President Buhari, has been given a two-week ultimatum to resolve the issue of fuel scarcity plaguing the nation.