Following attacks on the “Resume or Resign” protesters in Abuja, Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has condemned the crack-down, describing it as the height of dictatorship and demonstration of intolerance to opposing views by the All Progressives Congress government.
In a statement by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, the governor, who declared support for the call for President Muhammadu Buhari to either “resume or resign” said, “Nigeria can no longer afford a Diaspora president or a president that is seen once in 100 days. If they say the President is now well, he should return to Nigeria or is Nigeria now in the hands of the President’s doctors?”
Governor Fayose also said that he was particularly miffed by what he called orchestrated attacks on the protesters at Wuse market, Abuja yesterday, adding that, “By arranging hoodlums to attack Nigerians who were exercising their fundamental rights to protest against the government, the APC government has shown that it has lost the support and trust of Nigerians.”
Fayose added that any attempt to silence Nigerians, especially those opposed to the APC government will fail.
He said, “This country belongs to all of us, it is not the property of a few or a cabal who believes they can cow and subdue Nigerians. We will continue to talk. The president must either resume or resign; this is a clear statement. Who is afraid of the truth? Who is running away from realities?
“It was now more obvious that the APC federal government has nothing in stock other than destruction of the country.”
