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Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, said on Sunday that he is more important than former president Olusegun Obasanjo in the current political scene.
Fayose who spoke to journalists in Lagos on Sunday stated that he has more authority vested on him than Obasanjo who “goes to Abuja to beg President Muhammadu Buhari for political favours.”
His words: “I was governor without a godfather. I was governor for three years but Obasanjo took me out. Obasanjo is now an expired man today and I am still more than relevant. He is expired. He goes to Aso Rock every week to go and beg.
“How many times did Buhari visit him (Obasanjo) when he was President? Buhari did not go to Aso Rock throughout. He didn’t even go for Council of State meetings. What is Obasanjo looking for in the Villa? A man of 80! What is he looking for?
“He keeps writing to presidents to nominate ministers for them. That was Goodluck Jonathan’s offence. Enough is enough.”
Fayose accused the current dispensation of malpractice and said he would continue to tell the truth even at the risk of being murdered.
“I am going places, I have history to make. I am going higher and higher. The very day Buhari’s administration faces me, his government will come down. I am a child of destiny,” he said.
According to the Ekiti state governor, there is a plot by Buhari to remove him from office.
He faulted the setting up of the Nigerian Army’s Board of Inquiry to investigate alleged malpractices and involvement of its personnel in the 2014 Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections.
Fayose said since the All Progressives Congress (APC) had failed to upturn his victory at the Supreme Court, the APC-led government was planning to present the army panel’s report to the Supreme Court and ultimately remove him from office.
However, the governor warned that if he was removed from office, against the wishes of the people of Ekiti state, Buhari’s government would be ‘brought down’.
He noted that international community, including the United States, described the 2014 Ekiti guber election as free and fair.
He therefore, wondered why the APC could not respect the will of the people.