- Fayose said it was annoying that
President Buhari said he was embarrassed and shocked by Cameron’s comment
- Fayose said the president should
apologise to Nigerians for demarketing the country and his people
Ekiti state governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has said President Mohammadu Buhari’s utterances outside Nigeria was the
reason the British Prime Minister, David Cameron described Nigeria as
“fantastically corrupt”, saying; “What do you expect from the international
community when the president of a nation keeps going abroad to say that his
people are corrupt?” He said it was annoying that President Buhari said he was
embarrassed and shocked by Cameron’s comment, adding that instead of telling
Nigerians that he was shocked, the president should apologise to Nigerians for
demarketing the country and his people. The governor, who spoke through his
special assistant on public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka said it
was on record that in February this year, President Buhari said in United
Kingdom that “Nigerians’ reputation for crime has made them unwelcome in
Britain” and went on to warn Nigerians to stop trying to make asylum claims in
Britain, saying that their reputation for criminality has made it hard for them
to be accepted abroad.
He
said; “When a president mounts the podium in foreign lands and gleefully says
that his own people are criminals, that they are corrupt and that those abroad
should be sent back home, why won’t presidents of other countries brand all
citizens of such a country as fantastically corrupt? “Rather than this
grandstanding from the presidency, conceited efforts should be made to redeem
the image of Nigeria that the president has destroyed.” Governor Fayose, who
said he was not against the anti-corruption efforts of the federal government,
added that all he was saying was that it should be done in accordance with the
laws of the country and that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) must stop behaving as if it is above the law. While describing the remand
order reportedly granted to the EFCC to detain the former Minister of Aviation,
Femi Fani-Kayode indefinitely as a show of judicial rascality, the governor
said; “it is worrisome that some court magistrates, especially in the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT) have turned themselves into allies of the EFCC in its
persecution of Nigerians who are opposed to President Mohammadu Buhari’s
anti-people policies.” He cautioned court magistrates in the country,
especially those in the FCT against the continuous disobedience to the
directive of the Chief Judge of the FCT, Justice Ishaq Bello that they should
desist from granting remand orders to the EFCC to detain suspects indefinitely,
saying; “It now appears that these magistrates are operating as if they are
superior to the FCT Chief Judge
Justice Bello had said during his visit to the
Keffi Medium Prison in Keffi, Nasarawa State that; “I understand that EFCC has
been bringing some cases to you and you have been granting them remand orders.
You must no longer do this from today.” He noted that “it is obvious that the
EFCC is either corrupting the magistrates to obtain the remand orders or they
are being blackmailed and coerced by the anti-corruption agency.” Governor
Fayose said; “In saner climes, anti-corruption agencies don’t go about
arresting suspects, detaining them arbitrarily and coercing them to make
statements implicating themselves. Rather, anti-corruption agencies must have
gotten all they needed to prosecute a suspect before arresting him. “It is even
more questionable that the court order secured by the EFCC to detain
Fani-Kayode indefinitely was gotten barely 24 hours after the former minister
was granted administrative bail by the same EFCC. “How can someone be granted
administrative bail and while he was trying to meet the bail conditions, the
EFCC clandestinely rushed to a magistrate court to secure an order to detain
him indefinitely? Isn’t that a clear show of executive rascality?” Meanwhile,
President Buhari has personally replied to British PM Cameron comments on
Nigeria. Buhari calls corruption a “hydra-headed monster” and advises any
country that thinks it’s safe from corruption to wake up.
– Fayose said it was annoying that President Buhari said he was embarrassed and shocked by Cameron’s comment
– Fayose said the president should apologise to Nigerians for demarketing the country and his people
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– Fayose said it was annoying that President Buhari said he was embarrassed and shocked by Cameron’s comment
– Fayose said the president should apologise to Nigerians for demarketing the country and his people
Read more: https://www.naij.com/826887-fantastically-corrupt-fayose-slams-buhari-attacks-efcc-fani-kayode.html
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