Buhari Not A Democrat, Lacks Moral Rights To Intervene In Gambia – Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has

described President Muhammadu Buhari’s

involvement in the meeting with President

Yahya Jammeh to persuade him to concede

defeat as an aberration, saying; “Aman like

Buhari under whose free, fair and credible elections no longer exist lacks moral rights to

preach obedience to democratic principles to

anyone.” The governor said great Africans like former

President Goodluck Jonathan, President John

Mahama of Ghana and others who have lost

elections and conceded defeat were in the

best position to intervene in Gambia and not

someone like Buhari, who lost election three times

and never conceded defeat. According to his Special Assistant on Public

Communications and New Media, Lere

Olayinka, Governor Fayose wondered what

President Buhari, whose government is

desperately moving Nigeria from a multi-

party democracy to a one party State, would have told President Jammeh in Gambia

yesterday, He said “with what happened in Rivers State

last weekend, it is certain that votes of

Nigerians will no longer be allowed to count

as the APC cabal in the Presidential villa has

now assumed the roles of

INEC, allocating votes to their party and using security agents to force their will on the

people.” Governor Fayose asked; “Did President

Buhari face Jammeh and advised him to

accept defeat the way he (Buhari) conceded

defeat in 2003, 2007 and 2011 when

violence was instigated and several people,

including Youth Corp members were killed? Or did Buhari lecture Jammeh to take to

democracy at gunpoint, which is now the

norm in Nigeria? “How can Buhari, who has destroyed the

legacy of free, fair and credible elections that

was handed over to him, be the one to

prevail on someone else to adhere to

democratic principles?” He said Buhari should first remove the timber

in his eyes before attempting to remove the

toothpicks in other peoples’ eyes, describing

the President as a physician who cannot heal

himself but trying to heal others. The governor said even though President

Jammeh behaved dishonourably by reneging

on his initial promise to accept defeat,

involvement of President Buhari in the

meeting to persuade him to step down was

the height of hypocrisy. The governor said that Nigerians are now

more concerned with how to take back their

country like the Gambians have done. “Nigerians are worried about the possibility

of Buhari behaving like Jammeh in 2019 after

he must have been defeated and that the

international community may need a high-

powered delegation to pilot his rampaging

bull out of Nigerians chinashop,” he said.

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