Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has revealed why he is so critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

 

The governor said he will continue to criticize any government in Nigeria because it is a democratic country and democracy is about opposition and the government in power.

 

In a recent interview with Vanguard, he said he started criticizing Buhari before the election that brought him to power and he doesn’t regret his actions.

 

Fayose said: “I actually told Nigerians not to vote for him (Buhari), I made advertorials and I am still not sorry for that, I still maintain my stand because I envisaged this disobedience of court orders and dictatorship. Forget about those who rule Nigeria but we must be governed by the rule of law.

 

“Those who promoted Buhari to be president, at one time or the other later in this country, will regret, and most of them are already regretting and suffering in silence because when you promote a lion and you don’t remember to tame its claws and jaws, one day you will end up in its stomach."

 

According to him, Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) were plotting to remove him from office.

 

“They made attempt to make my swearing in impossible but the people rose against them, they went to ensure I was impeached but the people rose against them, they made attempt to the Supreme Court to stop me they were stopped; they are at it again, they want to use military panel,” he said.

 

The Ekiti governor claimed that Buhari and his party were on the verge of destroying democracy in Nigeria, saying, “call it fighting corruption but they are on the verge of destroying democracy in Nigeria.”

 

He noted that any government that confronts him will crumble and the day the Buhari-led administration faces him, his government will come down. He added that Olusgeun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria is an expired man who goes to beg every week at Aso Rock, prostrating.

 

Speaking on the ongoing N2.1bn arms deal probe, Governor Fayose said he is in support that corruption is fought but he wants Buhari to probe beyond the tenure of former president, Goodluck Jonathan and look at all the security votes under the National Security Adviser’s in office in the last 16 years.

 

“I am telling you corruption is even higher under Buhari than ever before. We cannot continue with this propaganda and I want to say that Buhari should make public in the last 16 years, finance under the NSA,” he said.

 

When asked if he was not scared for his life with the way he was opposing Buhari’s administration, he replied: “My brother, forget that one! This year I am 55, I will be 56 next year. If I die today, I have five sons; they will do a big party. People will console them that your father lived an exemplary life, he was governor twice.”

 

Just yesterday, the governor charged President Buhari to resign if he cannot solve the economic hardship in the country