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The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose has said he has nothing personal against the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari(retd.).This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday, where he reacted to criticisms trailing his mode of campaign for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Fayose insisted that he owed no one any apology for expressing his opinions on the ongoing campaigns.
According to him, “The APC had not only packaged lies and tried to foist such on Nigerians, but had compromised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election if it had been held on February 14. I remember then as the ad hoc chairman of the PDP committee to shop for the presidential candidate to replace former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a crop of suitable, brilliant, healthy and competent northern politicians in the PDP were shortlisted by me for Obasanjo to pick from, but he overruled the list and asked me to contact the late President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua because he preferred him.
“In fairness to the late president, he objected to the offer on health ground, but Obasanjo insisted that he must be the president. I am not against the North, rather, if Obasanjo had picked from the list of names submitted by my committee to him, certainly, a northerner, replacing Obasanjo would have ruled this country till 2015. As an insider, who saw everything and who again have noticed the repeat of the episode of 2006, I must talk.
“There is nothing bad in allowing President Jonathan from the South to complete the two terms he is allowed constitutionally and in 2019, a real candidate from the North, not one manipulated by the South-West APC, will emerge to take over? These APC leaders operate in deceit, the well being of this country is secondary to them. The is the party that ruled Ekiti for just only four years and grounded the state with huge debts. That 2006 scenario is again being re-enacted with Obasanjo and APC leaders branding General Buhari to be the president of this country. I am not wishing General Buhari dead, but the fact remains that he is too old to govern a complex country like Nigeria and we don’t want a president that will govern by proxy.”
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