Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti State governor has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the number one enemy of Nigeria, saying: “He is a confusionist who has lost his status as a statesman and Nigerians should simply ignore him.
” The governor, who expressed confidence that President Goodluck Jonathan will be reelected to complete his eight year-term, added: “Obasanjo is only fighting President Jonathan because he prevented him (Obasanjo) from ruling Nigeria from his Ota Farm.”
In a statement issued yesterday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said: “Obasanjo is a cancer that may never get cured in a lifetime. The moment Obasanjo is not the one controlling a house, he will want the house pulled down but this time around, he has failed.
“Obasanjo has always benefited from the misfortune of others and he is living with the impression that he is the wisest person in the whole world. When Murtala Mohammed was murdered in 1976, Obasanjo was the beneficiary. In 1993, he said the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, late Chief MKO Abiola, was not the messiah Nigeria needed. Instead of Obasanjo to join the clamour for the actualisation of Abiola’s mandate, Obasanjo was canvassing for an Interim National Government, which he schemed to head.
“MKO Abiola died in detention in 1998 and Obasanjo became the beneficiary of his (Abiola) death. Despite the fact that it was the blood of MKO Abiola that Obasanjo marched on to power, not even a street was named after Abiola throughout Obasanjo’s eight years as president.
“Today, Obasanjo is fighting President Jonathan, the man who has done what he failed to do for Abiola, the Yoruba people and Nigerians as a whole when he was president for eight years, simply because he does not want anyone to equal his record as Nigeria’s longest serving president.
“President Jonathan has made it impossible for Obasanjo to run his presidency for him and for this reason, he is supporting Buhari, hoping that he will be the one to nominate ministers for Buhari if he becomes president. However, I have this bad news for Obasanjo. Nigeria is not his football that he can kick around as he likes. President Jonathan will be reelected and Nigeria will be freed from Obasanjo’s bondage once and for all.”
If not for the state of a nation like Nigeria, Fayose should not be the one talking!
ReplyDeleteWas he not aware of same when he was writing a letter to beg OBJ and also ask him to help with his own rehabilitation back to PDP.
Is it not the shameless Fayose that denied his own voice from a recorded clip which the Minister of Police Affairs have confirmed to be real?
At the last check, Fayose was rigged into the State house with votes less than half of a million people and yet he is promising GEJ re-election!
GEJ need to wise up from all the noise makers around him and face the reality of mending his ways before the election!
If none of the Ministers in his cabinet was able to convincingly win a party primaries that was to produced gubernatorial candidates save for the Rivers folk Wiki that was lorded over the party in that state, then GEJ should know there is more than fire on the mountain!
While I don't share the sentiment that an endorsement from OBJ can assure him victory even in Ogun State, but a battle line with the same OBJ will cause GEJ electoral woes than he will ever imagine across the divides when the votes are counted!
GEJ might think those past leaders urging him on are in support of his administration, they are only respecting the Office of the President!
Fayose is GEJ number one enemy because he knows if GEJ is not re-elected, he Fayose will still be a governor for some more years beyond 2015.