Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has dared the Federal Government to carry out the alleged plot of preventing him from travelling out of the country.
“Under
the federal system of government, state governors are not appendages of the
President and as a leading opposition figure in Nigeria, he cannot be cowed by
President Mohammadu Buhari and his agents,” Mr. Fayose said via a statement by
his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.
The
governor, who reacted to reports that two governors, one from the Southwest and
another from the South South had been placed on travel restriction on President
Buhari’s order, said whenever he wished to travel out Nigeria, he would do so
in the full glare of the public.
He
said, “I am not surprised or disappointed by this latest plot of the Buhari’s
government because the President Buhari that we know is a man without any atom
of respect for the rights of Nigerians as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of
Nigeria, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on
Human and Peoples’ Rights and this he demonstrated as a military dictator and
now demonstrating as a democratically elected president.”
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