Fayose Urges Obasanjo To Stop Attacking Jonathan

Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti state, has called on Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to stop attacking former president Goodluck Jonathan.

Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti state

The governor made his call in a statement issued on July 20, Monday, in Ado-Ekiti by his special assistant on public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka.

Fayose said that he was angered that Obasanjo had claimed that Niger Delta region would be affected negatively because of the actions and inactions of Goodluck Jonathan.

The governor noted in his statement that the people of the region had already demonstrated their support of Jonathan by voting overwhelmingly for him on March 28 despite the gang-up orchestrated by Obasanjo and his allies.

“Most importantly, Jonathan’s performance as a democrat has been widely acknowledged locally and internationally, particularly by President Mohammadu Buhari, who on many occasions acknowledged the role he (Jonathan) played in midwifing a peaceful and successful transition programme, thereby averting the feared crisis in the country.

“This is in contrast to Baba Obasanjo, who tried third term when he was about concluding his constitutional two terms. And who knows whether he would have tried fourth term if he had succeeded with his third term agenda?

“The reality is, assuming but not conceding that Jonathan performed below expectation, democratic governance that he established in Nigeria is more important than any other performance that Obasanjo alluded to,” the governor said.

Fayose stressed that all Nigerians are equal and they all are stakeholders in the country.

“It is wrong for any Nigerian no matter how highly placed to go about carrying himself around as the only honest and lover of the country.

“Since Baba Obasanjo has openly destroyed his Peoples Democratic Party membership card, he is free to go about seeking relevance in the All Progressives Congress without running anyone down,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ijaw youths from the nine states of the Niger Delta region, under the aegis of the Ijaw Youths Council, also criticized Obasanjo, describing his comments as reckless, condemnable and baseless.