Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on Nigerians to
pray specially for President Mohammadu Buhari; saying; “The President
needs God to give him the necessary wisdom to be able to find solution
to the country’s economic and security problems.”
The governor also challenged the Minister of Information and Culture,
Lai Mohammed to relocate to Sambisa in Borno State or Yobe and move
around there without heavy military security if indeed he was sure
that Boko Haram had been defeated.
Fayose said; “only God’s
intervention can save Nigeria from the present economic and security
problems as it is glaring that the man running the affairs of the
country at the federal level does not have any answer to the
problems.”
He said; “Even the Holy Bible said in James 1:5 that if anyone lacks
wisdom, he should ask God and as it is, Nigerians must assist the
President in asking for wisdom and understanding to tackle the
country’s economic and security problems before Nigeria is further
plunged into more woes with the federal government’s decision to
borrow N2.2 Trillion, which translates to N6.066 billion per day to
finance the 2016 Budget.”
He described the Federal Government’s announced reduction of petrol
pump price from N87 to N85 per litre as a continuation of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) government’s governance by deceit, saying;
“Even secondary school students of economics know that you cannot
deregulate and regulate at the same time.”
The governor said; “it is only in a confused and clueless economy that
government will plan to spend more when revenue has reduced by more
than 50 percent.”
Governor Fayose, who maintained that petrol will not sell below N100
per litre in 2016, added that; “Even now that the price is N87 and
subsidy is yet to be removed, Nigerians are buying at between N130 and
N300 per litre. What will now happen when they remove subsidy and
allow market forces to determine the price?”
The governor described claimed by the Information Minister that Boko
Haram insurgents had been defeated as strange, saying; “Nigerians will
only take the minister serious if he relocates to either Sambisa in
Borno State or Yobe State and stay there till the end of March, next
year without heavy military security.”
He said; “To show their level of confusion, two days after the
Minister of Information declared that Boko Haram had been defeated,
President Buhari said the government would persuade Boko Haram to
abandon their fight. One then wonders how the same Boko Haram
insurgents Lai Mohammed said were already defeated will have to be
persuaded to abandon their fight.
“Interestingly, the same Boko Haram that Lai Mohammed said had been
defeated reported attacked Kimba village in Gur ward of Biu Local
Government Area of Borno State yesterday night.
“Therefore, the Information Minister must show Nigerians how peaceful
Borno and Yobe States have become after the defeat of Boko Haram by
relocating to either Sambisa, Maiduguri or Yobe.”