Former Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, Friday, sensationally disclosed that he wanted to bare his mind, and not praise former President Muhammadu Buhari when he died on July 13 and his demise was greeted with a deluge of eulogies.
While fielding questions on Channel Television’s flagship political programme, Fayose disclosed that he was not ready to speak good of the dead in the manner of many. Rather, he wanted to abuse the dead President but that his wife begged him not to speak ill of the dead.
“The people in Nigeria only praise the dead,” he declared. “When President Buhari died, I wanted to come out and abuse him (but) my wife called me not to say so.”
Fayose, a longtime critic of the Buhari government, argued that the late former president did not perform up to acceptable standards during his eight-year tenure.
“Would you say Buhari performed?” he asked his interviewer rhetorically. “I’m not among those praising the dead. Don’t honour me when I die. When I die, I’m gone.
“When President Buhari was in government, we all know what this country was. So, nobody should come and tell me that (President Bola) Tinubu is not doing well.”
The former Ekiti governor then resorted to what he has been renowned for in recent time saying that unlike Buhari, Tinubu is very accessible.
“He (Tinubu) is accessible. Was the former president accessible?” Fayose said.
“A lot of things are happening in those days but do you still find them in the system? He is not a perfect man but we are not where we were.”
Fayose continued his defence of Tinubu, declaring; “Nigeria is a sick country; it will take heaven to pull it out at once.
“What miracle can anybody do in two years? The situation is critical, wide and deep. Tinubu inherited a very bad economy.”
