Daura muzzled me out b’cos I refused to support Buhari – Fayose
The outgoing Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose has disclosed how the former director general of the Department of State Service, Lawal Daura, recently approached him twice to support President Buhari’s administration.
Nigerian Tribune reports that Fayose who spoke in Abuja on Sunday night, October 14, at a send-off party organised for him by his colleagues in the PDP Governors’ Forum, said he turned down the request on both occasions.
In a statement by his chief press secretary, Idowu Adelusi, on Monday, October 15, he quoted Fayose as saying that it was for that reason that Daura coordinated the security onslaught against him and his supporters during the July 14 governorship election in the state.
The statement read: “If I had agreed to the proposal and operated like a bat, who has the features of an animal and a bird, they would not have attempted to muzzle me. I am not one of those that would be silenced or who will go and take over under his wife’s bed because some people want to play God.
” I cannot deceive you, I can fight but rather than fight the PDP, I will deploy my energy to fight those holding our country hostage and retarding its growth by their incapability. The time is up for them and they know this.”
Fayose expressed confidence that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi would be elected president and vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria next year.
He gave the assurance that the south west people would vote the PDP in the coming general elections.
The Akwa Ibom state governor, Emmanuel Udom, described Fayose as a courageous and dependable man and said Fayose could defend a cause even at the cost of his life.
The chairman of the occasion, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara said nobody who served his people the way Fayose did would be put to shame.
He noted that Fayose’s supporters shedding tears while he was departing Ekiti were actually praying for him.
Peter Obi, in his remarks, said the country needed people like Fayose who would speak the truth to power.
Other speakers such as the Bayelsa State Governor, Rt Hon. Seriake Dickson, former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode poured encomiums on Fayose and prayed that God blesses his future endeavours.
