Long before the election, I told Nigerians not to vote for Buhari – Fayose

Editor’s note: Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has been in the centre of attention for more than a year, since it became obvious that Muhammadu Buhari and his team of ‘Change’ were coming to power. In a recent interview with Vanguard the governor explains why it is doubtful Buhari secured so many votes in the last year’s poll, the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to strike back in 2019, the situation in the Nigeria’s economy and many more. Read the excerpts below.

Long before the election, I told Nigerians not to vote for Buhari

Everything I have said is backed with facts and figures. It is not about being critical of this administration. I didn’t start today. I started before the 2015 elections. I told Nigerians not to vote for him (Buhari).

I was a young man of 24-25 years when Buhari was the head of state. The Yoruba man will say: “If you have taken a medicine that works for you, please give me.” We took a medicine which kills. Anybody that is 40 years old today that voted for Buhari doesn’t know Buhari because, from 1984 to date, it will be 32 years. So, a guy of eight years won’t say he knows Buhari clearly. So, add that eight years to 32 years, that is 40 years, they voted for a man they never knew. So, if you remove people from the age bracket of 18-40 and remove the votes from Buhari’s votes, you will know that he couldn’t have won the election.

I am not critical of anybody. When APC (the ruling All Progressives Congress) is talking about me, they say whatever they want to say but I defeated them in all elections even when they call it militarization, even when they say Fayose is controversial; in every battle I will win them. Even when you have over taken, like after my impeachment, by His grace, they were over taken again and lambasted by the Supreme Court. There is a difference between vendetta and the reality on the ground. If I am incompetent, Ekiti people will not vote for me eight years after.

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On PDP’s chances

What chances do you have to live till tomorrow? A lot of people blabbing today, who told them they will be alive at that time? Who is telling our oppressors that they will be there by tomorrow; that it won’t be me that will be there by that time?

You understand, we have seen so many things in this country. I am the longest-serving Nigerian governor. I served in Obasanjo’s administration. I served in Jonathan’s and I am serving in Buhari’s administration now. You see, I am not a small boy that anyone toys around with. You want to try me with impeachment, they have done it before. You want to try me with state of emergency, they have done it before. You want to clamp someone in prison, they have done it before. I am an experienced man. I am fearless.

The reason is that greater is He that is in me than he that is in them. And let me remind you, if they have another person that they will join with Buhari to get more forces, they will bow to this Force here. I am telling you the truth. Power doesn’t come from anywhere. God rules in the affairs of men. Oppressing, bringing and cutting people down, dropping people, taking their blood on the ground, God is angry. God isn’t happy.

How can you be cutting people down? You go to Rivers and kill people, you go to Akwa Ibom and kill people, you go to Bayelsa, you kill people, incarcerate innocent people. God is angry with Buhari. You can’t continue to take the blood of the innocent. Look at my predictions for 2016 for Nigeria, everything has come to pass. This is a different ball game. He that will take me, he that will go against me must first of all defeat God.

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On the state of the Nigerian economy and recent Buhari’s decision

The reality is that we need a change of attitude. That’s what we need. The attitude of everybody must change; from the president to the last man in government and beyond government. If you want to dispense justice, for instance, you must dispense it equally. If you want to fight corruption, you must fight it equitably. If we are talking about restructuring our economy, the economy is not all about itself.

We have been through such a gathering (economic retreat) but, at the end of the day, will it not be the same old rhetorics, same strategies? Is it not a diversionary move to make Nigerians think you are working on the economy? Meanwhile, this is a government that was elected almost one year ago, but which doesn’t know what it is doing, doesn’t know what it wants, doesn’t know why it got there; maybe it wanted power but not to put Nigeria on the path of prosperity.

So, it is a good idea that we should talk about the economy of the country, but I think the driver should know the direction more than the passengers. So, with his (Buhari’s) APC family, they ought to have had an economic team, economic master plan for Nigeria.

They would have set the direction. There are indicators of an economy. Indicators of an economy will tell you what will happen next year; will tell you that next year, there will be drop in rain for farming and that we must build irrigation. It will tell you, there are going to be issues that could make the economy get gloomy. That is why we have technology. That is why we have advanced information. That is why you have specialists…

Look at me with a daughter abroad and somebody says my daughter can’t get maintenance money in dollars anymore. The education of my children has come to a halt after building such a child to year three in the university. This is an indicator of incompetence, a clueless administration. Sometimes, APC people might have clues but the president doesn’t have. He has no clue. You see these things, people are afraid to say it.

Details on Vanguard.

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