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.