Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has
described President
Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed visit to some states
where killings have
been perpetrated in recent time as afterthought and
attempt to curry
favour for sympathy votes in 2019.
Buhari is planning to visit Taraba Benue, Zamfara,
Yobe and Rivers
states, which have recorded different forms of
killings this year .
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.”
The governor likened President Buhari to a
selfish king who went on
making merry while his people were in agony only to
show up when the
people had already buried their loved ones that
were gruesomely
murdered, gotten over their anguish and moved on
with their lives.
In a statement issued by Monday, by his Special
Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
Governor Fayose said it
was the height of cruelty that the same President
Buhari, who promised
to lead from the front in the fight against Boko
Haram could not visit
Dapchi, Yobe State where 110 school girls were
abducted by the
insurgents, elected to go on merry making in Kano.
“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.
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