Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, says Nigerians are
beginning to believe Aisha Buhari's comment that a cabal has taken over
President Buhari's government.
In a statement released by his media aide, Idowu Adelusi,
Fayose says the refusal of Customs
Comptroller General, Hameed Ali, to wear his
Uniform for an appearance at the Senate, is shameful and portrays the
Buhari-led administration in a bad light. He volunteered himself if President
Buhari needed help to curb the excesses of some of his appointees.
"Governance has been reduced to a theatre of the
absurd. These appointees of yours are needlessly and embarrassingly flexing
muscles and are heating up the polity. They appear to be having fun and
regaling themselves at the expense of the nation. The economy has collapsed and
the people are suffering. There is hunger and anger never before witnessed in
the land. Yet, Presidential appointees are preoccupied with trivialities and
inanities. Wearing of uniform has suddenly become a Supreme Court matter. Why a
man who will not wear uniform went to take a uniformed job beggars belief. How
someone who has so little respect and scanty regard for an organization like
the Nigeria Customs Service should be made to head the same organization must
baffle right-thinking Nigerians. In other societies where people have a sense
of decency and decorum, people with such irreconcilable differences would honorably
resign their position. And where a government finds itself unable to
effectively govern, as we appear to have here on our hands, it behoves the head
of that government to do the needful. Mr. President, let it not be said that
you have lost grip of your government. Nigerians are beginning to believe, as a
statement of fact, your wife’s allegation that a cabal has taken over your
government. Your defense that your wife belongs to “the other room” now rings
hollow in the ears of Nigerians. The saying is that he who appoints can also
disappoint. Your appointees are your creation and it is an aberration when they
become greater and more powerful than you. Mr. President, the tail is wagging
the dog right now. You must take effective and firm action to reverse this ugly
and unwholesome trend. I am also the head of a government and I know how it
works. The ‘consortium of presidents’ around you, as Nigerians now derisively
refer to those ‘powerful’ and larger-than-life appointees of yours who take
delight in riding roughshod over the polity and desecrating the hallowed
chambers of justice, must be cut to size. If you need help, Nigerians are ready
to queue behind you on this issue to put an end to your appointees’ shenanigans.
Mr. President, I, Ayo Fayose, volunteer to help you in this regard. As a state
governor, I cannot brook a tenth of what you are taking from your appointees.
None of my appointees can disrespect and disparage the Ekiti State House of
Assembly like your appointees are doing to the National Assembly. Did you
listen to what a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic said this week
on the floor of the red chamber; that for the 59 days that you were away on
medical leave in London, your appointees were gentle and behaved themselves and
there were no killings in any part of the country by rampaging herdsmen; but
now you are back and the troubles are back with us again? We all prayed for
your quick recovery and swift return to office. Must we now regret doing
so?"he said