Buhari Not A Democrat, Lacks Moral Right 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.
