Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on
Nigerians to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari for God
to give him the necessary wisdom to find solution to the
country’s economic and security problems.
The governor also advised the Minister of Information and
Culture, Lai Mohammed, to relocate to Sambisa in Borno
State or at best, Maiduguri, the State capital and move
around there without heavy military security if indeed he
was sure that Boko Haram had been defeated.
The governor, who spoke through his Special Assistant on
Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said,
“Only God’s intervention can save Nigeria from the present
economic and security problems as it is glaring that the man
running the affairs of the country at the federal level does
not have any answer to the problems.
“Even the Holy Bible said in James 1:5 that if anyone lacks
wisdom, he should ask God and as it is, Nigerians must
assist the President in asking for wisdom and understanding
to tackle the country’s economic and security problems
before Nigeria is further plunged into more woes with the
Federal Government’s decision to borrow N2.2 tn, which
translates to N6.066 bn per day to finance the 2016 Budget.”
Fayose described the Federal Government’s announced
reduction of petrol pump price from N87 to N85 per litre as
a continuation of the All Progressives Congress
government’s governance by deceit.
He said, “Even secondary school students of economics
know that you cannot deregulate and regulate at the same
time.
“It is only in a confused and clueless economy that
government will plan to spend more when revenue has
reduced by more than 50 percent.”
Fayose, who maintained that petrol would not sell below
N100 per litre in 2016, added, “Even now that the price is
N87 and subsidy is yet to be removed, Nigerians are buying
at between N130 and N300 per litre. What will now happen
when they remove subsidy and allow market forces to
determine the price?”
The governor described the claim by the Information
Minister that Boko Haram insurgents had been defeated as
“strange.”
According to him, Nigerians will only take the minister
serious if he relocates to either Sambisa in Borno State or
Maiduguri and stay there till the end of March, next year
without heavy military security.
He said, “To show their level of confusion, two days after the
Minister of Information declared that Boko Haram had been
defeated, President Buhari said the government would
persuade Boko Haram to abandon their fight.”
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