WILL APC ALSO ACCUSE SARAKI OF SPONSORING IPOB? - FAYOSE ASKS
WILL
APC ALSO ACCUSE SARAKI OF SPONSORING IPOB? - FAYOSE ASKS
Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose has said those accusing him
of sponsoring the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have lost their sense
of normal reasoning.
Fayose said no amount of blackmail will stop him from
expressing his mind against the All Progressives Congress (APC) government’s
disrespect for constitutional rights.
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said APC people took
side with Fulani herdsmen when they killed people in Oke-Ako, Ekiti State.
He said, “Now that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki has come
out to openly say that categorization of IPOB as a ‘terrorist organisation’ by
the military is unconstitutional, is the APC also going to accuse him of
sponsoring IPOB?”
Governor Fayose said; “It is on record that on June 10, 2013, it
was widely reported in the media that the current Minister of Information,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who was the National Publicity Secretary of Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said that the proscription of Boko Haram was against
the constitution, that it stifled the press and tampered with the fundamental
human rights of Nigerians.
“It is also on record that in June 2013, President Buhari
told the Federal Government to stop the clampdown of Boko Haram insurgents,
accusing the government of killing and destroying houses belonging to Boko
Haram members while the Niger Delta militants were given special treatment.
“Should we now say that Lai Mohammed and President Buhari
sponsored Boko Haram because they spoke against the federal government’s
clampdown on the insurgents then?”
He added, “Herdsmen have sacked a whole community in this
country, they killed over 1,000 Agatus in Benue State and have destroyed
people’s farmlands across the country, has any of the herdsmen been arrested?
Has any conceited effort been made by the federal government to curb the menace
of the Fulani herdsmen?
“If because I spoke against the wanton killings carried out by
the military in the Southeast, the APC is saying that I’m funding IPOB, was I
the one funding the people of Southern Kaduna when I condemned the killings
there?
“Was I funding the Agatus in Benue State when I condemned their
killings by Fulani herdsmen? Was I funding the Shiite Muslims when I condemned
the killings of El-Zakzaky followers in Zaria and his continued detention?
“Mine
is a mission for a Nigeria where no one will be treated like a second class
citizen and we can only achieve that if we have leaders that will not be a
champion of nepotism like President Buhari.”
