Governor Fayose calls on Buhari to stop foreign trips and stay home to solve Nigeria's woes

EKITI State governor Ayo Fayose has called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop his needless foreign trips his latest visit to the US as joke of the year.

 

Earlier this week, President Buhari joined several other world leaders in Washington DC for the Fourth Nuclear Security Summit. Since assuming office last May, President Buhari has travelled very frequently as his government is enjoying a lot of goodwill from the international community and he is regularly invited to global event.

 

However, Governor Fayose said the president was travelling the world while Nigerians were suffering back home, adding that junketing must stop. He added that the sufferings of Nigerians deserved the attention of the president instead of him junketing around the world, wasting the country’s scarce foreign exchange.

 

Governor Fayose said: “It remains a mystery what President Buhari that met power generation at 6,000MW and could not manage it such that power generation crumbled to 0MW yesterday, will contribute to the Nuclear Energy Summit in America. It is shameful that while President Buhari was far away in the United States of America, attending a summit that does not have any bearing on Nigeria and its people, the unprecedented happened - power generation stopped completely for over three hours!”

 

He alleged that over $50m must have been spent on the president’s frequent foreign trips, adding that Nigerians should ask President Buhari whether his trip to the US to attend Nuclear Energy Summit would bring the lingering fuel scarcity being experienced in the country to an end. Nigeria is currently going through a fuel shortage crisis with long petrol queues being the order of the day across the country.

 

Governor Fayose added: “Nigerians are suffering and petrol has become so scarce that our people now sleep at petrol stations to buy fuel at N200 per litre, while the president, who should alleviate their sufferings, is in the USA, attending a summit that he won’t even understand whatever that is discussed there. This is not acceptable and Mr President should stay at home and see to it that at least, power generation returns to 6,000MW that he met, if he cannot add to it.

 

“Mr President should stay at home and bring this fuel scarcity that has paralysed almost all activities in the country to an end. Nigerians are saying their president should stay at home and bring to an end the killings, raping of women and destruction of farmlands by Fulani herdsmen."

 

He stressed that most importantly, the president should listen more to those who criticise him instead of those hailing every of his wrong steps either because of what they intend to gain or for fear of persecution. Since May last year, Governor Fayose has been one of President Buhari's fiercest critics.