The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has taken the Nigerian Presidency to task on the narrative behind the sudden vacation of the country’s
President, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari.
Ayodele Fayose, a constant nag from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP made a cynical lampoon of the official statement on the President’s one week holiday challenging the central authorities in Nigeria to be more explicit and truthful about the President’s unscheduled holiday. Hitherto, he had nagged Mr. Buhari in frequent oversees trips, the cost of such trips and the reasonable doubts on the sincerity of the administration’s investigation and prosecution of financial scandals that crated consequential setbacks in military operations against Boko Haram insurgency.
He said: “Nigerians deserved to know the truth about their President because the President is an open book that every Nigerian should be free to read.”
The governor, who said he was aware of the high-wire plot to use the Supreme Court to upturn his electoral victory, insisted that nothing would stop him from speaking the truth concerning issues in the country.
He said it was suspicious that a president, who told Nigerians that he was embarking on official visit to France and Britain, last Tuesday, would suddenly commence a five-day vacation while still in the United Kingdom.
According to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor, who prayed for safe return of the President, said, “Nigerians deserve to know where exactly their president is spending his vacation.
“We were told last Tuesday, that Mr. President was travelling to France from there to London to attend the Syria Donor Conference, and that he would return to Nigeria this weekend.
“All of a sudden, we were told that the President was embarking on a five-day vacation. Where and why? We were not told.
“Curiously, it was at this same period, last year that President Buhari, who was at that time the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, disappeared from public views in London.
“It is therefore important that in the future, the presidency should be more explicit in communicating with Nigerians on issues regarding the President because a nation’s president is an open book that can be read by anyone.”
He however commended the President for handing over to the Vice President as stipulated by the Constitution of the country.