Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said he stands by all he said about President
Muhammadu Buhari on his ill health and therefore has no apology to make to
anyone about it.
Fayose, who’s Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s
Governors Forum therefore advised the President “to resign so as to look after
his health because he is sick and tired.”
Fayose gave
his stand on Wednesday during a meeting with political office holders at
Government’s House in Ado Ekiti.
He said, “If not for our efforts, Buhari
wouldn’t have returned now. Buhari is sick and tired and even his physical
appearance portrays this and he needs to go home and rest.
“Today, they
have cancelled the Federal Executive Council meeting. You cannot hide the truth
forever, it will reveal itself someday. You cannot continue to deceive
Nigerians.
“Every word that has come out of my mouth, I have no apology
for them. President Buhari was indeed in coma and one of those who visited him
said his recovery is a miracle. That shows that he was indeed very sick. Let
Buhari go back to Daura and rest, don’t send him to early grave.”
Fayose,
however, denied reports on the social media that he vowed to commit suicide if
the President came back alive from his medical vacation to the United
Kingdom.
He attributed the rumour to the work of miscreants spreading
misleading reports about him.
“How can I commit suicide because of an old
man? Such are from miscreants on the social media. Let me tell you expressly,
why would I commit suicide? I cannot commit suicide because of my mother. Even
if they are burying my mother now, I will cleverly stay away from the grave so
that I won’t fall into it. I can’t commit suicide because of Buhari. I never
said that and will never make such statement.”
Fayose added that pressure
from him and the civil society groups including the ‘Resume or Resign Movement,’
was responsible for the “forced return of the President to Nigeria.”
He
continued, “I don’t want to talk about 2019 but I want to tell you that Nigeria
needs a president that is agile and strong. The job is too much for an
individual that does not have what it takes.
“We wish him well and we
want him to recover but the President should throw in the towel, resign and go
home.
“They said he would come back and resume in his office, he resumed
in his office, they said rats have taken over his office. Now, they said he is
working from home; tomorrow, they would say he is coming from the bedroom. All
these stories are ending up in a make-believe.”
