The audio recording by one captain Sagir Koli of the Nigerian Army that went viral on how officials of the PDP and the government used the army to rig the 2014 Ekiti state gubernatorial election and the interview granted Sahara Reporters by the same Army officer, made clear to me the fixation of Ayodele Fayose with General Muhammadu Buhari. Fayose was the beneficiary of the rigging scheme which sent Kayode Fayemi out of the Ekiti government house and he is scared of what will happen to him in the event Buhari wins the rescheduled 2015 presidential election. He would rather General Buhari die before March 28th than see a Buhari presidency with him possibly ending in jail. This is because the revelations in the tape are tantamount to a military coup against Fayemi and the Ekiti people. The coup was carried out using the Army led by a Brigadier General and orchestrated by two Ministers of the Federal Republic.
General Muhammadu Buhari is in the UK right now engaged in a working visit, meeting with British politicians, policy makers and captains of industry with a view to selling himself and his programmes. He may also use the opportunity to show the English that he is not the ogre the PDP is making him out to be. Almost everybody who happened to be at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport saw the General queuing up to join the British Airways yet Fayose still insists that Buhari was flown out in an air ambulance. How morbid can some people be in their desperation? How can someone be so fixated with another’s state of health to the extent that one could be this reckless? What transgression have the people of Ekiti committed to deserve this monster as their governor?
Fayose has a history of rascality and that may be responsible for his impeachment during his first incarnation as the governor of Ekiti state. He also had a murder case hanging on his neck before the PDP exhumed him from his political Siberia and imposed him on the good people of the state just so that the PDP will have its way in the forthcoming elections. The confessions of the Army captain and the admission by some of the participants to the treasonable meeting that returned Fayose as governor means little to the president and his party because the people are of no concern to them. If the president really cares about the people of Ekiti state in particular and Nigeria in general as he claimed, Fayose should be in jail by now, with Jelili Adesiyan, the Minister of Police Affairs and Musiliu Obanikoro, erstwhile Minister of State, Defence, keeping him company in the dungeons. But in the president’s usual ways of “not giving a damn” about you and me, he dismissed the recording with a wave of his magisterial hand. While Adesiyan remains a member of Jonathan’s cabinet, Obanikoro is nominated to the same cabinet in complete disregard to the outcry in respect to the roles they played in the Ekiti elections.
Fayose is a violent man and desperate man at that. This is a man who violated the sanctity of a courtroom by invading the court while in session with hoodlums and slapped a judge and nothing happened to him. If such a man has consistently been talking about death of the presidential candidate of the APC and the party kept quiet, then something must be wrong. In his desperation to see Buhari dead, it has been reported that he has followed the General to the UK for only God knows what. It was also earlier reported that Fayose hired some people in London to trail Buhari wherever he goes and it wasn’t denied. Yet the APC is taking all this lying low. Am I missing something? When a man of such violent tendencies threatens my chicken, I will make sure he will never sleep again. Has he been consulting babalawos who assured him Buhari will die of a sickness to be cast on him by them or what?
The consistency and stridency in the claims of Buhari’s illness should not be taken lightly by the APC. In the event any harm befalls him we know who to hold responsible. If the president is chicken to act on such nonsense, Nigerians have to be prepared to defend their integrity and safety when those in authority decides to play God over our affairs. We have seen how all those around the president have been threatening the corporate existence of the country without any of them being dragged to the office of the …(DSS). The difference between Asari Dokubo, Tompolo and Fayose is that where the Niger Delta oil thieves have been threatening the country in the event Jonathan lost the election, Fayose has been threatening Buhari’s personal safety and existence. Am wary of a man who still has a case of murder hanging over him making such statements and even made it a vocation to trail the man he believed should throw him in jail.
Fayose keeps repeating that the Buhari will never be the president of Nigeria and he says this with a certainty of someone on terra firma. What is giving Fayose this level of confidence that Buhari will never be the president of this country? Is it any fetish assurance he is relying on or is it going to be another snivelling Brigadier he will use to stop Buhari? I think Nigerians should ask him these questions and his fixation with Buhari’s health status. The media must put him on the spot to lay bare his sources of confidence on the APC candidate’s health condition and not just follow him around sheepishly lapping all the nonsense he dishes out to them. Last time I checked he wasn’t Buhari’s Doctor.
The likes of Fayose have gradually weakened the unity of the country because of their deliberate insensitiveness. The man and the characters that populate Jonathan’s administration and campaign team are jeopardising the unity of the country to the applause of the president and to the chagrin of patriots. If we allow them to continue tugging at our fault lines, then we deserve them.