Nigerians know they should reject Buhari in 2019, says Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has insisted that Nigerians do not need counselling in 2019 to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari

- He believes the president’s woeful performance will make Nigerians reject him and his party in totality.

- He also insisted that former President Goodluck Jonathan is more tolerant of opposition than President Buhari

Ayodele Fayose

Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayose has said that Nigerians do not need counselling to reject President Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2019 general elections.

According to him, the president’s woeful performance will make Nigerians reject them in totality.

He made this known in a press statement in Ado Ekiti recently.

The vocal governor also said that the living conditions have become unbearable for Nigerians under the present administration. Going further, he accused President Buhari of being intolerant of opposition.

Consequently, he praised former President Goodluck Jonathan for his level of tolerance while in power.

‎”Nigeria of our dream is not what we see now‎. What I said about President Buhari are coming to pass. Before the polls, I said people should not vote for him.‎

“Nigerians are hungry and they are regretting. If a nobody contests against Buhari in 2019, Buhari will lose‎. ‎Nigerians don’t need counselling to know that they should not vote Buhari in 2019.‎ It is obvious.

President Buhari

“Majority of those who voted for him never really knew him as they were mostly in their 40s, people who were toddlers when he ruled Nigeria as a military man in the 80s. Also, ‎he is vindictive and apart from military nature, he does not have what it takes to run Nigeria.‎ His government then was run by Idiagbon.

“He is also not tolerant. You can’t compare him with Dr Goodluck Jonathan. ‎Jonathan‎ accepted defeat in an election he conducted.

“Nobody will be stopped from aspiring, but we will go through that system to ensure that our candidate is the choice of the people of the state. After that, the party’s primary would select, but whatever results we have got from the different groups could guide in party members making the final choice,” he said.

Meanwhile, the governor has also faulted the federal government’s claims that the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists have been technically defeated and that government was clamping down heavily on perpetrators of the Southern Kaduna killings.

He also said that apart from being an opposition figure, he had chosen the path of revealing the truth and he asked Nigerians to look at events in the country and compare to his previous comments.