ADO-EKITI, Federal Republic of Nigeria. March 2, 2015 (Daily Independent) — Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on Nigerians, especially Northern leaders, to save the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Muhamadu Buhari, from former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, and his cabal in the APC.
The governor, who said he was worried that Tinubu and his cabal were pushing Buhari too much because of their selfish interests, pleaded: “Nigerians should appeal to Tinubu and his cabal to allow Buhari attend properly to his health.”
The governor, in a statement on Sunday, through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and News Media, Lere Olayinka, said: “Since last week Thursday that Buhari appeared for less than two hours at the Chatham House where he said his doctors certified him fit and that he was returning to Nigeria for the ‘final onslaught on the PDP, he has simply disappeared from public glare.
“Isn’t it strange that someone, who is contesting an election in 28 days’ time, could afford to stay outside the country for going to two weeks?
“Buhari confessed that he actually saw his doctors; why did the APC cabal lie that he never visited any hospital, even going to the ridiculous and criminal level of using pictures taken in Abuja to authenticate claim that Buhari had a television interview in London?
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“Like I have maintained, the same cabal that were involved in the Yar’Adua saga are also involved in the packaging of Buhari and Nigerians must save the man from these people, who are only interested in using him to assume power.”
While maintaining that Buhari was not the candidate of the North, Fayose asked, “Shouldn’t it interest Nigerians, especially the northerners, that only Malam Nasir El-Rufai was a northerner among those who attended the last Thursday’s “arrangee Chatham House event?
“During the APC primary, delegates from the North voted for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. Only delegates controlled by Tinubu, Governor Rotimi Amaechi and Senator Bukola Saraki voted for Buhari.
“In appreciation of Tinubu’s role, Buhari gave him (Tinubu) the sole right to choose his running mate, with Tinubu still being rumoured to be interested in the vice presidential position that he gave his surrogate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.”
