The governor also asked Buhari to explain where his campaign funds came from.
Fayose made the comments during a recent interview with Vanguard. Excerpts below:
What informed your position against President Buhari?
Incidentally,
this year I will be 56. I am a grown Nigerian when President Buhari was
president of this country. I was well grown enough to know what he
represented.
The people that voted largely for
President Buhari were under 40 years old because they dominated the
social media and Bible says “My people die because of lack of knowledge.
He became president 1984, and you will want to recall that anybody that
would say I am 40 years at the time President Buhari contested was only
nine years (when he first ruled).
Fighting
corruption Nine years doesn’t know what Nigeria represents and that was
why they voted for him because you must know who you are giving your
life to – who you are giving your future to. You must know you are not
taking your life to Golgotha. So, as a man who knew President Buhari –
then I was in Ibadan.
I knew the total misrule of
1984 to 1985 – how the military suffered Nigerians, how a lot of leaders
were clamped in chains using decree 2. So, President Buhari is living
true to type. If you look at the way he is governing Nigeria today, it
is the same way he did before; by his appointments, by his taking away
the rights of the people, by doing things without recourse to due
process.
Fighting corruption is a great thing. It
is good, but anything that does not represent the truth is simply
corruption. You’re oppressing some people now either because they are
not from your region or because you had issues with them before; it is a
mission for vengeance.
So, let me round it up,
there is nothing personal between President Buhari and myself. Let us
look at the APC, most of the people they were bashing in those days, but
when they get to APC they become saints. Ayo Fayose I have told the
people who brought Buhari will end up inside his stomach.
This
is one chance government that we have entered under this man. Nepotism
is another story; lying upon lying. In fact, opposition is the strength
of democracy. It is where the average man can get value for money. You
are trying to silence Femi Fani-Kayode; you are trying to silence Metuh
and others. My brothers, where in Nigeria have people contested
election, vied for office and not spent money?
All
the aircraft carrying President Buhari during campaigns, is it cows
that were carrying him around? I want to make it clear that there is
nothing personal between myself and President Buhari, but I want to make
it expressly clear again to you that what they are doing is not in the
interest of Nigeria to cow the people once opinion differs from yours.
After
all, this state was run by APC when Jonathan was president. They had
peace to run their government. Today, if you want to call the police,
they are afraid, when you want to use the FRCN, they will say no. The
president will not allow.
They will go and report
us to APC in Abuja. So, what kind of life is that? The FRCN here they
don’t carry PDP news. It is that bad! So, what nation are we building? A
nation built on sectional and political interests? As much as you can
call Jonathan’s name, the man never took a political prisoner
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