Special
Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media,
Lere Olayinka has asked the Presidential Adviser on Political Matters, Senator
Babafemi Ojudu to advise President Buhari to go back to his farm and that he
should halt dabbling into matters concerning Nigeria and Ekiti State in
particular.
Olayinka, who
was reacting to Ojudu’s comment that the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
was disrespecting President Muhammadu Buhari whom he (Ojudu) said was old
enough to be his (Fayose) father, said; “Ojudu will be making the biggest
political mistake if he believed that this time around, he will ride on the
back of political treachery, blackmail and bootlicking to become the governor
of Ekiti State.”
The governor’s
spokesperson said “Ojudu should rather advise President Buhari to go back to
his farm in Daura, Katsina State if he has become too old to be corrected by
Nigerians, who elected him and on whose sweat he is being sustained.”
He said
Nigerians, irrespective of their age and position have inalienable rights to
criticise public office holders, including the president, adding that;
“Civilian dictators like Senator Ojudu are the ones carrying public office on
their heads and playing god in the lives of Nigerians.”
Describing Ojudu
as a serial blackmailer and an unrepentant hypocrite, Olayinka said; “It is
funny that someone like Ojudu, is the one talking about Governor Fayose
disrespecting President Buhari on account of his age.”
He challenged
the Presidential Adviser to tell Nigerians the benefit derived by Ekiti people
from his four years in the Senate and close to two years in the Presidency.
Olayinka said;
“Here is a man who wasted four years in the Senate without anything to show for
all the millions of naira he collected on behalf of Ekiti people now
gallivanting up and down because he is in the Presidency.
“If Ojudu had
done so well as a senator, won’t he have had the courage to seek re-election in
2015 like his two other colleagues?
“Even last year
when Fulani herdsmen were killing Ekiti people and destroying their farmlands,
Ojudu took side with the herdsmen against his own people just because he needed
to be in the good books of
“It is a shame
that someone like him is the one talking about the governor portraying Ekiti in
a bad light when all he (Ojudu) has done since 1999 was to champion political
instability in the State.
“Is it not on
record that he (Ojudu) wagged war against Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Governor Fayose
(during his first tenure) and Engr Segun Oni? He even lied against Oni that he
set his house ablaze and engineered protest against Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) in
Ibadan in 2007.”
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