Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has called on
well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on President Mohammadu Buhari to stop his
needless foreign trips, describing the president’s trip to the United States of
America on Wednesday for the 4th Nuclear Security Summit while Nigerians are
suffering at home as “joke of the year.”
*Gov Fayose |
The governor said “it remains a mystery what President Buhari that met power generation at 6,000MW and
could not manage it such that power generation crumbled to 0MW yesterday, will
contribute to the Nuclear Energy Summit in America .”
Speaking through his
Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
Governor Fayose said “it is shameful that while President Buhari was far away
in the United States of America ,
attending a summit that does not have any bearing on Nigeria and its people, an
unprecedented happened - power generation stopped completely for over three
hours!”
He said the
sufferings of Nigerians deserved the attention of the president instead of
junketing around the world, wasting the country’s scarce foreign exchange.
The governor
alleged that over $50 million must have been spent on the president’s frequent
foreign trips, adding that Nigerians should ask President Buhari whether his
trip to the United States of
America to attend Nuclear Energy Summit will
bring the lingering fuel scarcity being experienced in the country to an end.
*President Buhari making one of his foreign trips |
“Nigerians
are suffering. Petrol has become so scarce that our people now sleep in petrol
stations to buy fuel at N200 per litre while the president who should alleviate
their sufferings is in the USA, attending a summit that he won’t even
understand whatever that is discussed there.
“This is not
acceptable. Mr President should stay at home and see to it that at least, power
generation returns to 6,000MW that he met it if he cannot add to it.
“Mr President
should stay at home and bring this fuel scarcity that has paralysed almost all
activities in the country to an end.
“Nigerians
are saying their president should stay at home and bring to an end the
killings, raping of women and destruction of farmlands by Fulani herdsmen.
“Most
importantly, the President should listen more to those of us who criticise him
instead of those hailing every of his wrong steps either because of what they
intend to gain or for fear of persecution,” the governor said.
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