Governor Fayose, in a
statement issued in Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, asked if the President was now
governing the country by proxy.
The Ekiti State Governor,
Ayodele Fayose, has questioned President Muhammadu Buhari’s absence from state
functions, especially the weekly Federal Executive Council meetings.
According to him, it is
becoming obvious that a group of cabal is exercising the powers of the
President.
He said, “Everyday, what we
hear is ‘President said this’, ‘President said that’ without seeing the
President in any official function and one is prompted to ask, where is the
President?
“I saw the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, on television responding to
his suspension and what came to my mind was that there could actually be many
Presidents operating in the Buhari’s Presidency.
“Perhaps, it is for this
reason of a possible existence of governments within the government of Buhari
that confusion pervades the polity – with the President himself writing a
letter to the Senate to clear someone of wrongdoing and the same person is
being suspended three months after on the basis of the same allegation.
“It is also for this reason
that the President nominated Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation as the
EFCC Chairman and the Department of State Services – an agency under the
Presidency – wrote the Senate not to confirm him.”
Fayose said the flimsy
excuse that the Easter break stalled this week’s FEC meeting was not tenable.
“How could the Easter break
that ended on Monday be responsible for the inability to hold FEC meeting on
Wednesday? Definitely, there is more to this than meets the eye.
“It has, therefore, become
necessary that Nigerians hear the voice of their President and see him
physically, not through surrogates or the cabal operating behind the scene,”
the governor said.
Describing the President as
the face and image of the nation, Fayose urged Buhari to hold regular media
chats in which Nigerians could ask questions and offer suggestions about the
running of the country.
“Since his first and only
media chat was held in December 2015, Nigerians have not had the opportunity of
seeing their President address them directly and this is not the best approach
to governance in a democracy,” he added.
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