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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described President Muhammadu
Buhari’s promise to members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that
the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will be expanded to bring in more
supporters of the APC as appointees as a sad reminder that Nigeria is now
under a “chop-I-chop” government of settlement.
The governor, who also called on those who left the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) for the APC to return to the party, pointed out that the
statement made by the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service,
Colonel Hameed Ali (rtd) that “the ruling APC could not fulfilled its
promises because more than fifty percent of the positions in Buhari’s
government are being held by members of the PDP who fought against the
actualisation of a Buhari Presidency” was a direct and clear way of
telling those who left PDP for the APC that they were sojourning in a land
where they are seen as strangers.
In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, by his Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose
said “since those who manipulated votes for President Buhari, especially
in the north had already been settled, with our collective wealth, it
appears that it is now the turn of those they believed will assist them to
retain power in 2019.”
Governor Fayose said it was sad that while our people were still facing
the heat of the economic recession brought about by President Buhari’s
cluelessness, with foodstuffs and drugs out of the reach of ordinary
Nigerians, the President was only concerned with settling his party
members.
“If the President Buhari could acknowledge that he had been working with a
trimmed cabinet to avoid waste, one wonders the improvement that he has
brought to bear on the country’s economy to warrant his new decision to
expand the Federal Executive Council to bring in more supporters of the
APC and settle the party members with other federal appointments,” the
governor said.
On Col. Hameed Ali’s comment that PDP members were holding 50 percent in
Buhari’s government, Governor Fayose said; “Even though the PDP is already
emerging stronger from its 2015 electoral misfortune, we won’t mind having
our members who left for the APC back in our party.
“Going by Col. Ali’s comment, those who do not belong to President
Buhari’s original platform, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) are
seen as strangers in the Buhari-led government.
“Buhari’s men do not want anyone else, apart from those with whom they ran
CPC and that has been reiterated by Col Ali, a close ally of the
President. What remains to be done by those Col. Ali referred to as
reasons the APC government of Buhari has failed is for them to summon
courage and return to where they were before they moved to the APC.”