Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti state has urged Nigerians to pray for the President of the nation, Muhammadu Buhari, so that God would give him the necessary wisdom to find solution to the country’s economic ad security problems.
He released the statement on Saturday, through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.
Fayose also had a few words of advice for Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture.
He asked the minister to go to Sambisa in Borno state or Yobe and move around without heavily armed security escorts if he was sure that the Boko Haram sect had been defeated.
His advice comes in the wake of Lai Mohammed’s claim that the Nigerian Army had scored a total victory over the Boko Haram menace.
The governor 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 Trillion, which translates to N6.066 billion per day to finance the 2016 Budget.”
He also labeled the proposed reduction of petrol pump rice from N87 to N85 as more lies from the All Progressives Congress (APC) government’s while calling their administration a governance of deceit.
“Even secondary school students of economics know that you cannot deregulate and regulate at the same time” the governor stated.
“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.”
“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?” he stated while declaring that petrol will not sell below N100 in 2016.
“Nigerians will only take the minister serious if he relocates to either Sambisa in Borno State or Yobe State and stay there till the end of March, next year without heavy military security.”
“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. One then wonders how the same Boko Haram insurgents Lai Mohammed said were already defeated will have to be persuaded to abandon their fight.
“Interestingly, the same Boko Haram that Lai Mohammed said had been defeated reported attacked Kimba village in Gur ward of Biu Local Government Area of Borno State yesterday night.
“Therefore, the Information Minister must show Nigerians how peaceful Borno and Yobe States have become after the defeat of Boko Haram by relocating to either Sambisa, Maiduguri or Yobe” he said.
