Posted on: 06:02 Sat, 26 Dec 2015



Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has called on Nigerians to
pray specially for President
Mohammadu Buhari; saying; “The
President needs God to give him the
necessary wisdom to be able to find
solution to the country’s economic
and security problems.”

The governor also challenged the
Minister of Information and Culture,
Lai Mohammed to relocate to
Sambisa in Borno State or Yobe and
move around there without heavy
military security if indeed he was
sure that Boko Haram had been
defeated.

Speaking through his Special
Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
Governor Fayose said; “only God’s
intervention can save Nigeria from
the present economic and security
problems as it is glaring that the man
running the affairs of the country at
the federal level does not have any
answer to the problems.”

He said; “Even the Holy Bible said in
James 1:5 that if anyone lacks
wisdom, he should ask God and as it
is, Nigerians must assist the
President in asking for wisdom and
understanding to tackle the country’s
economic and security problems
before Nigeria is further plunged
into more woes with the federal
government’s decision to borrow
N2.2 Trillion, which translates to
N6.066 billion per day to finance the
2016 Budget.”

He described the Federal
Government’s announced reduction
of petrol pump price from N87 to
N85 per litre as a continuation of the
All Progressives Congress (APC)
government’s governance by deceit,
saying; “Even secondary school
students of economics know that you
cannot deregulate and regulate at the
same time.”

The governor said; “it is only in a
confused and clueless economy that
government will plan to spend more
when revenue has reduced by more
than 50 percent.” Governor Fayose,
who maintained that petrol will not
sell below N100 per litre in 2016,
added that; “Even now that the price
is N87 and subsidy is yet to be
removed, Nigerians are buying at
between N130 and N300 per litre.
What will now happen when they
remove subsidy and allow market
forces to determine the price?”

The governor described claimed by
the Information Minister that Boko
Haram insurgents had been defeated
as strange, saying; “Nigerians will
only take the minister serious if he
relocates to either Sambisa in Borno
State or Yobe State and stay there till
the end of March, next year without
heavy military security.”

He said; “To show their level of
confusion, two days after the
Minister of Information declared
that Boko Haram had been defeated,
President Buhari said the
government would persuade Boko
Haram to abandon their fight.

One then wonders how the same
Boko Haram insurgents Lai
Mohammed said were already
defeated will have to be persuaded
to abandon their fight.

“Interestingly, the same Boko Haram
that Lai Mohammed said had been
defeated reported attacked Kimba
village in Gur ward of Biu Local
Government Area of Borno State
yesterday night. “Therefore, the
Information Minister must show
Nigerians how peaceful Borno and
Yobe States have become after the
defeat of Boko Haram by relocating
to either Sambisa, Maiduguri or
Yobe.”