by Kolapo Olapoju

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, says he has nothing personal against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), while stating that he will continue to attack him.

Fayose said he owed nobody any apology for what he described as the ‘hypocrisy’ of the APC leaders whom he accused of putting personal interests above national interest.

Fayose spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, February 26, where he reacted to the criticism of his unrelenting attacks and constant scrutiny of Buhari.

The governor stated that the opposition party was packaged with lies, while also adding that it had compromised the Independent National Electoral Commission to rig the election earlier scheduled for February 14.

He said: “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 Umaru Musa Yar’Adua because he preferred him.”

“In fairness to the late President, he objected to the offer on health grounds, but Obasanjo insisted that he must be the President.”

Furthermore, Fayose said Buhari should have appeared at the APC organised rally in London on Wednesday if he was not on hospital bed. According to him, the Chatham House lecture was a guise by the APC to cover up the status of Buhari’s health.

Kolapo Olapoju