Fayose: Attacks on "Resume or Resign"

protesters, height of

dictatorship, Says; Buhari must “resume or resign”

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the
attacks on the 'Resume or Resign',


protesters, describing it as
the height of dictatorship and demonstration of intolerance to
opposing views by the All Progressives Congress (APC)
government.


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 said that he was particularly miffed by what
he called orchestrated attack 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 support and trust of Nigerians.”


Special Assistant to the governor on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement issued on
Wednesday that Governor Fayose told journalists that any
attempt to silence Nigerians, especially those opposed to the
APC government will fail, saying; “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?”
He said it was now more obvious that the APC federal
government do not have anything in stock other than
destruction of the country.


The governor, who maintained that demanding for the health
status of the President was the right of Nigerians, said it was
funny that armed policemen were available to protect those
who protested in support of the APC government, but the
same police attacked the "Return or Resign"
protesters.


He said; “Nigerians will recall that during the BBOG protest in
the Jonathan administration, protesters sat on the road for
days, nobody molested them. During the January 2012 fuel
hike protest (aka # OccupyLagos , # OccupyNigeria ), people
freely expressed themselves and those in government today
participated actively in the protests, they funded these
protests.


"Even President Muhammadu Buhari led protests in Abuja
against PDP government. The President led protesters to the
National Assembly to protest against the continued absence of
the late President Umaru Yar'Adua from the country and went
ahead to call for Yar'Adua's impeachment. Then, no one was
attacked by security men and hoodlums were not set after the
protesters as was done in Abuja yesterday


.
"It is therefore shameful that the same people who rode on
the back of democratic principles to power are now standing
against the rights of Nigerians to complain and the
international community should pay special attention to the
rule of brute force going on in the country.



“I salute the courage of this young people who have continued
to say the truth that the president must resume or resign. If
they are telling us the president is okay and fine, let him come
home, let the doctors follow him here, we don't want a
president who is being introduced once in 100 days, the
president we voted for must be accountable to us.


“Nigerians should vote against APC, never again should these
people who I describe as power miss road control us again,
thank you very much."