By Amako Nneji (Post Nigeria)
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele
Fayose, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari, to eschew any plans of declaring
a state of emergency in Ekiti and Rivers states.
Governor Fayose, stated this on
Monday, March 21, while speaking with State House Correspondents, in Aso Rock,
shortly after taking part in the economic retreat organised by the National
Economic Council, NEC, at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa.
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He maintained that his government is
aware that President Buhari was planning a state of emergency in Rivers State
over the bloody election re-run that took place over the weekend.
Recall, that the All Progressives
Congress, APC, had requested that President Buhari declares a state of
emergency in Rivers State, in order to forestall political violence and the
breakdown of law and order in the state.
“It is obvious that Governor Wike has
lost control of the state. As the chief security officer of the state, his
primary duty is to secure lives of the people in the state, but he has
failed to do this. The crisis in Rivers State could have ended if not for the
unwillingness of “powerful people” in government in the state,” the APC had
said.
Speaking further, Fayose said if he
went ahead with the plan, Buhari would be taught a lesson that power belongs to
the people and not their leaders.
“They have been insinuating that
(state of emergency) too in Ekiti. We have been waiting for them. Power has
gone beyond the leaders; power has gone back to the people.
“You want to declare state of
emergency, declare it and we will tell you that the state of emergency will not
work too. This country belongs to all of us.”
He urged Buhari to sustain the legacy
of free and fair elections which his administration inherited.
“The military has got no business in
our election. If you watch the trend, PDP has always won all the elections
after the annulment. Which means what happened in Rivers is just a service of
ego of some individuals who believe they have Nigeria in their pockets and they
can call the President at will to deploy the military.
“It is unfortunate that somebody
would allow the military to kill his own people.
“I strongly condemn the elections in
Rivers and charge that we sustain the legacy of transparent elections.
“For me in Ekiti, we learned from
that and we are prepared. We prepare for election everyday and we are fully
prepared,” he added.
Fayose also insisted that the
intimidation of members of the Ekiti state House of Assembly by men of the
Department of State Services, DSS, had further confirmed what he described as
the rascality of the agency of government.
He said it was unfortunate that the
Federal Government would decide to look away and allow innocent Nigerians’
rights to be trampled upon.
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