Controversial Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has again
attacked former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, saying his exit from the
party
“is riddance to bad rubbish”.
Fayose
congratulated other Peoples Democratic Party, PDP members over
Obasanjo’s exit from the party, describing the former president as the
troubler and tormentor of the party.
“Congratulations
on Obasanjo’s exit. Obasanjo, the troubler and tormentor of our party is
gone,” he said in a paid front page advertisement in a national
newspaper today.
The Ekiti governor further
congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan and the entire members of the
PDP for what he called good news over Obasanjo’s exit, whom he described
as a mole in the party.
“I congratulate our President,
His Excellency, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the entire members of
the PDP on the exit of the mole in our party, Olusegun Obasanjo (retd).
Good riddance to bad rubbish, march on Goodluck, our president, the
coast is now clear for your victory,” he said.
Fayose
had at other times attacked Obasanjo over his hard stance on Jonathan,
describing him as the number one enemy of Nigeria and a confusionist who
has lost his status as a statesman and that Nigerians should simply
ignore him.
Fayose, in a statement last Sunday said
Obasanjo is only fighting President Jonathan because he prevented him
(Obasanjo) from ruling Nigeria from his Ota Farm.
“Obasanjo
is a cancer in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Nigeria that may
never get cured in a lifetime. The moment Obasanjo is not the one
controlling a house, he will want the house pulled down but this time
around, he has failed.
“Obasanjo has always benefitted
from the misfortune of others and he is living with the impression that
he is the wisest person in the whole world. When Murtala Mohammed was
murdered in 1976, Obasanjo was the beneficiary.
“In
1993, he said the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential
election, the late Chief MKO Abiola was not the Messiah Nigeria needed.
Instead of Obasanjo to join the clamour for the actualisation of
Abiola’s mandate, Obasanjo was canvassing for an Interim National
Government, which he was scheming to head. MKO Abiola died in detention
in 1998 and Obasanjo became the beneficiary of his (Abiola) death,” he
said in the statement.
“Despite the fact that it was
the blood of MKO Abiola that Obasanjo marched on to power, not even a
street was named after Abiola throughout Obasanjo’s eight years as
president,” Fayose added.
According to him, Obasanjo is
fighting President Jonathan, the man who has done what he failed to do
for Abiola, the Yoruba people and Nigerians as a whole when he was
president for eight years, simply because he did not want anyone to
equal his record as Nigeria’s longest serving president.
He
said Jonathan had made it impossible for Obasanjo to run his presidency
for him and that for this reason, he is supporting Buhari, hoping that
he would be the one to nominate ministers for Buhari if he becomes
president.
“However, I have this bad news for Obasanjo.
Nigeria is not his football that he can kick around as he likes.
President Jonathan will be re-elected, and Nigeria will be freed from
his (Obasanjo) bondage once and for all,” he stated.
Again
on 27 November, 2014, Fayose attacked Obasanjo also for his criticism
of Jonathan at the Yoruba Progress Summit, held at the Oduduwa Hall of
the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State.
He
said the ex-president was corrupt and was not in a position to
criticise Jonathan, accusing the former president of sharing a huge
amount of money to people he did not name during his attempt to go for a
third term as the country’s number one citizen.
According
to him, Obasanjo would not support someone even if the person gave his
blood to him as he did not want anybody with an independent mind.
Source:PM News
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