{"id":40704,"date":"2015-07-24T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=40704"},"modified":"2015-07-24T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:07:11","slug":"probe-fgs-selective-playing-to-the-gallery-fayose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/probe-fgs-selective-playing-to-the-gallery-fayose\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe: FG\u2019s selective, playing to the gallery \u2013 Fayose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35684\"><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35683\">Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said announcements in the<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35588\">media by the President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35593\">(APC) Federal Government that the immediate past Peoples Democratic<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35682\">Party (PDP) government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan will be probed was mere<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35594\">\u201cplaying to the gallery,\u201d noting that \u201cthere is no need announcing the<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35651\">intended probe in the media. Rather, the Federal Government should<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35681\">just go ahead and carry out the probe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35650\">The governor, who also counselled the Buhari-led government not to<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35688\">embark on selective probe, added that; \u201cFrom all indications, it is<\/span><br \/>\nobvious that the probe they are talking about is targeted at some<br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35647\">people and if activities of anti-graft agencies during the tenure of<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35645\">President Buhari are going to be selective, the president should know<\/span><br \/>\nthat the world is watching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35648\">In a release issued in Ado Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35649\">Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said the<\/span><br \/>\nconsequences of Dr Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s conducting a credible election<br \/>\nand handing over power to the winner should not be witch-hunt as<br \/>\nobviously being done by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians should not be probed on the pages of newspapers. Rather,<br \/>\nthe anti-graft agencies should do their jobs quietly, diligently and<br \/>\nin accordance with the laws of the country, not as dictated by any<br \/>\nindividual or political party,\u201d Fayose said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor noted that; \u201cIf there must be any probe, Nigerians want a<br \/>\ngeneral probe, not a probe targeted only at PDP supporters, those who<br \/>\nserved in Jonathan\u2019s government and those seen as not agreeing with<br \/>\nthe APC positions on the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, if what they believed should be done is a selective probe,<br \/>\nthose holding power in Abuja now should know that what goes round will<br \/>\nsurely come round and it is just a matter of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Governor Fayose urged President Buhari to pay more<br \/>\nattention to governance, especially the Boko Haram insurgency that has<br \/>\ncome back strongly taking control of five Local Government Areas in<br \/>\nthe North East, the rising exchange rates of Dollar; Pound Sterling;<br \/>\nEuro and other foreign currencies and most importantly, he be guided<br \/>\nby the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because four years is a very short period and time is already<br \/>\ngoing. Before you sleep and wakeup, four years will be gone and<br \/>\nNigerians will rate the government based on how well the government<br \/>\nbettered their lives, not how many perceived enemies were hunted with<br \/>\nanti-graft agencies, he said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that God was already vindicating Dr Jonathan by elevating<br \/>\nthose who worked with him, saying; \u201cAs opposition party, APC<br \/>\ndisparaged Jonathan and those who worked with him. Now that the party<br \/>\nis in power, they are still doing the same, behaving as if the party<br \/>\nis still in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically, the same people the APC vilified are being elevated at<br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35700\">the world stage. Dr Akinwumi Adesina, who served a Jonathan\u2019s Minister<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35699\">of Agriculture, is now the African Development Bank (ADB) president<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35698\">while Arunma Oteh,who was the Director-General of the Security<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35697\">Exchange Commission (SEC) under Jonathan is reported to have been<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35692\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1437730855113_35691\">appointed as the World Bank Vice-President and Treasurer.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said announcements in the media by the President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government that the immediate past Peoples Democratic&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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