Some
people commend the governor as he is not afraid to speak his mind and raise his
voice against any issue. However, there are those who think that Fayose’s
frequent insults and vituperations against President Muhammadu Buhari have crossed the boundary of free speech.
Meanwhile, the governor, who often comes under attacks following his statements, has finally explained why he
criticizes the president. “My criticizing Buhari is to help the people have
dividends of democracy. If nobody is talking because they are afraid, you will
have a dictator in every leader. It is to keep people on their toes for the
love of everybody,” he said.
On
the other hand, turning our focus to the
other side of the globe, we can always rely on Donald Trump for
providing us with the most ridiculous and outrageous quotes. So it’s no
surprise that since announcing his candidacy for President of USA, we’ve been
exposed to even more ridiculousness from the businessman and TV personality.
A
look at this mirror shows us that these two politicians have some similarities.
Both
are always ready to say ‘the truth’, or what they consider to be the truth, or
what they suspect the mass considers the truth with reckless
abandon—exaggerating, obfuscating, contradicting themselves along the way, but
always speaking the truth.
Trump isn’t lying when he speaks of the collapse of
America’s immigration, and he isn’t lying when he speaks of the fear it sparks
in the minds of a large swath of the American population. He isn’t lying about
the fear of China beating America, he isn’t lying about the fact that America
wasn’t particularly safe under George W. Bush and he really isn’t lying when he
says America isn’t winning at much anymore.
Our Fayose isn’t lying when he says Nigeria’s
electricity and energy situation is now worse, he isn’t lying when he notices a
pattern of parochialism in presidential appointments, he isn’t lying when he
notices traces of military-style authoritarianism, and he isn’t lying when he
notices a tenuous grip on the economy. Some say the problem, is how they speak
these truths.
SURULEREWATCH has
gathered 10 extracts from the most controversial politician Nigeria has seen.
1. On
the rerun elections in Rivers
“Power doesn’t come
from anywhere. God rules in the affairs of men. Oppressing, bringing and
cutting people down, taking their blood, God is angry. The way this government
is taking people down, God is angry. God isn’t happy. “Go to Rivers, they kill
people. Go to Akwa Ibom, they kill people. Go to Bayelsa, they kill people,
incarcerate innocent people. God is angry with Buhari. You can’t continue to
take the blood of the innocent.”
2. Plan to Islamize
Nigeria
“They have started
subtle moves to make Nigeria an Islamic nation, but God will stop them. This
was done in 1984, it failed, it would fail again.” “Why did five of them go to
Saudi Arabia to wait for our man there (referring to President Buhari and state
governors), if they don’t have agenda. The agenda is coming small small, but we
will resist it. Nigeria is a free nation where we proclaim the name of Jesus
Christ freely, and we believe in Allah for those who are Muslims. This nation
will not be taken for an Islamic nation.”
3. On the president’s
foreign trips
“Travelling from one
country to another won’t solve any of our problems because I have not seen
where foreigners assist any nation to develop. “The president should know that
Nigerians are suffering and they do not need their president to junket around
the world, to alleviate their sufferings.”
4. On the 2016 budget
“I warned Nigerians of
the consequences of electing an octogenarian as president and with the
international embarrassment that this budget crisis has become, I have been
vindicated. It is obvious that there is total disconnection between the
President and his cabinet members as many of the ministers don’t even have
access to him probably because the president spend most of his time resting as
a result of his old age.”
“The reality is that
the president is challenged by age, exposure and ability. He did not read the
budget proposal that he presented to the National Assembly and this should be a
lesson for those who clamoured for a Buhari’s presidency that no man can give
what he does not have.”
5. On Buhari’s campaign
promises
“Everything Buhari and
his party promised Nigerians when they were looking for votes, they have denied
and it won’t be a surprise if one day, Buhari comes out to even deny that he
was elected on the platform of APC.” “Nigerians have now realised that they are
inside a ‘One Chance Bus’ because Buhari and his APC have disowned their entire
campaign promises by disowning their campaign document titled; ‘My Covenant
with Nigerians’.”
6. On 2019 presidential election
“Those promoting Buhari
for 2019 should stop. I have told Nigerians that Buhari does not have the
capacity now to govern Nigeria. What capacity will he display in seven years
time? Currently as it stands, the president
is challenged by age.”
7. On Buhari’s
anti-corruption crusaide
“I support the fight
against corruption but it has to be total. Buhari must be bold enough to probe
how ex-presidents Obasanjo, Babangida and others spent their security votes.
All the presidents that had come in Nigeria spent their security votes in the
same pattern. So, Buhari must open the book and come out with facts.”
8. On Fulani-Agatu War
& Buhari’s silence
“It is worrisome that
the Fulani herdsmen that killed over 400 Agatus in Benue state, raped women and
destroyed farmlands in the North Central, South West and South South zones of
Nigeria are walking the streets free while Igbo people, who opted to defend
their sources of livelihood are languishing in detention. “Are they saying that
those Igbo villagers do not have rights to defend their farmlands from further
destruction by the Fulani herdsmen when the president who should defend them is
keeping silent?”
9. On invasion of Ekiti
state House of Assembly
“If Buhari likes, let
him relocate all DSS men in Nigeria with the entire ammunition in their armoury
to Ekiti, the will of Ekiti people can never be broken. They will only try, and
like they have always done, they will fail because dictatorship has never
triumphed over the people. Even Buhari’s dictatorship between 1984 and 1985
ended one day and Nigerians will also outlive his present dictatorship.”
10. On Chibok girls
“The cries over missing
girls were just a political strategy. What could Boko Haram have used to carry
those girls? However, if truly missing, they should be recovered. One thing I
know is that what is not missing you cannot get.”
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