For what is perhaps the first time ever, the Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has found a reason to commend President Muhammadu Buhari.

Fayose, in a statement signed by his special Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, praised the President’s decision to negotiate with Niger Delta militants rather than use military action.

The Governor, who has been a giant thorn to the Buhari administration, noted that the President must face the “reality that democracy is about negotiation and concession.”

“The Niger Delta region as at today is still the golden goose laying the golden eggs on which all other regions are surviving and it will be suicidal for military action to be sustained against the militants.”

But he had this to add.

“For the first time, the president took to advice and suspended military actions in the Niger Delta and opted to dialogue with the militants.”

He noted that military response to civil unrest had caused the country so much.

“If our daily crude oil production of 2.2 million barrels per day had been sustained, Nigeria would have been having savings in the Excess Crude Account by now.”

“Crude oil bench mark is $38 per barrel while the oil is now being sold at $50 per barrel, meaning that we would have been having $12 per barrel saved in the Excess Crude Account.”