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Gov. Fayose Says '2019 Votes' Behind Buhari's Scheduled Visits To Troubled States

 

The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said that the scheduled visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Benue, Zamfara, Yobe and Rivers states, was a calculated political attempt to gain votes ahead of the 2019 general election.

The governor said this on Monday, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka.

Fayose noted that the President failed to visit Yobe state after the abduction students in Dapchi, but graced the wedding ceremony of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s daughter, Hajiya Fatima and her groom, Idris Ajimobi, son of the Oyo state governor, Mr. Abiola Ajimobi, which took place in Kano state over the weekend.

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Mr. Fayose said: “Obviously, the President is more concerned about his reelection in 2019 and his visit to those States that he abandoned during their times of trouble is to seek for votes, not to sympathize with the people of the States on their loses.

“On January 9 and 12, this year, 88 victims of herdsmen attacks were given mass burial in Taraba State. Also on January 11, 2018, another 73 persons killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Benue State were buried in a mass grave in Makurdi, the state capital.

“Meaning that in Taraba and Benue States alone, 161 Nigerians were given mass burial within three days! This never caught the attention of our President. Rather, it was a visit to Nasarawa, a neighboring State to Benue that was important to him.

“To further demonstrate his lack of compassion for Nigerians, while the entire nation, especially parents of the 110 abducted school girls in Dapchi, Yobe State are still in anguish, President Buhari went to Kano last Saturday to attend a social function, thus sparking negative reactions from Nigerians.

“Apparently, it was the negative reactions of Nigerians, especially on Social Media and the effects on the President’s reelection bid that necessitated his hurried visit to Taraba State today, and planned visits to Benue, Zamfara, Yobe and Rivers States.

“I am sure the people of Taraba State won’t be hoodwinked by the President’s cosmetic sympathy, show of concern and crocodile tears, which he never bordered to shed when hundreds of indigenes of the State were being killed by suspected herdsmen.

“Nigerians can no longer be deceived by a President who never cared for them when they needed him most.

“Therefore, no amount of hurriedly organized campaign visits will sway the people, who never saw the President to protect them from being killed and console them when they lost their dear ones.”

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