Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose has said that Nigerians were suffering
under the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President
Mohammadu Buhari because “the country is in the hands of wrong managers
who do not know what to do and out of nepotism, not ready to be assisted
by those who know.” In a statement released today by his Special
Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose
said Nigeria was experiencing the worst form of nepotism in the history
of government in the country.
“Nepotism is the reason our President discarded competent people in his
party that should be running the government with him and opted for his
relatives, friends, in-laws and very close associates. The only
qualification to hold key positions in the Presidency is to know a
certain nephew of the President or be a member of his family, that's
nepotism and what nepotism breeds is incompetence. The most influential
person in the Presidency today is said to be one Mamman Daura, who is a
nephew of the President. Personal Assistant to President Buhari is said
to be the son of Mamman Daura while the State Chief of Protocol said to
be married to Mamman Daura’s daughter. It is also the height of nepotism
that apart from just two, all security chiefs and heads of all the
paramilitary agencies in Nigeria, as well as all the political-heads
overseeing all the military and paramilitary arms and agencies are from
the North of Nigeria," Fayose said.
He added that President Buhari was obviously being tormented by fear of
the unknown which he described as the main reason people take to
nepotism.xxxx
“As a leader, you don’t need to fear anything. But the moment a leader
peeps into the future, realising that his lack of capacity could have
consequential effects on him, such a leader will definitely resort to
nepotism to protect himself. Also, the moment a government is unable to
guarantee the existence of the people, it must resort to nepotism to
protect itself and that is exactly what is being witnessed in Nigeria,
especially with the lopsided appointments of security chiefs and key
functionaries of the Federal Government,” he said.
While lamenting the poor state of the economy, Fayose said;
“Most of those people that aided the emergence of President Buhari must
be having a rethink now, but it is too late! Interestingly, political
affiliation has nothing to do with hunger, poverty and lack. Exchange
rate was less than N200 to $1 when President Buhari took over power, as
at today, it has gone beyond N400 to $1 and Naira is still undergoing a
free fall. One bag of rice was less than N8, 000 as at May 2016, it is
now N20, 000. Kerosene is now beyond the reach of the masses. Nigerians
voted for change because the APC promised them solutions to the
country’s problems, but all we hear every day from the APC Federal
Government are complaints upon complaints as if Nigerians elected a
government of complaints. Obviously, the APC government has failed
Nigerians and the President has resorted to putting his immediate family
members and close associates in key government positions to protect
himself from the fear of the unknown that has enveloped him.”
