BEVERLY HILLS, July 07, (THEWILL) – Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State says President Muhammadu Buhari has reached the point of diminishing return when he was voted into power, stressing that Nigerians made a grave mistake by electing Buhari as President in 2015.
He stated that most of the people who voted Buhari did not even know him or assess his capacity for the office, but were brainwashed to vote for a change that has now become a curse to Nigerians.
Speaking in Benin on Friday while delivering the Convocation lecture of the Benson Idahosa University, BIU, the governor stated that now is the time for young Nigerians to pilot the affairs of the country.
He disclosed that under his watch, nobody above the age of 50 would become a council chairman while the maximum age for a councillor would be 35.
The governor pointed out that he is seen as a controversial person because he did what other people were afraid of doing.
“I am controversial because I am doing things others are not doing because they lack the courage and are afraid. Controversy is necessary in a democratic setting , and we must be courageous enough and if you are not controversial, then you are afraid,” he said.
Speaking on Buhari’s emergence as President, Fayose said, “You can only give your best at your best. Our president is at diminishing return as at today. I should be quoted.
“We cannot all sleep and face one direction. Idahosa did not do these things when he was close to his grave; he did them at his prime when he had the energy to make a difference.
“How do you give laptop or I-pad to a seventy-something year’s old man? How can we continue to struggle with our sons for positions meant for them?”
On the clamour for the restructuring of Nigeria, Fayose stated that past leaders have been paying lip service to the issue, saying that “the restructuring should be in such a way that every nation that makes up this country must be respected for what they are”.
He went on to reveal that the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa, got his father converted to a born-again Christian at a crusade in Ibadan, Oyo State, in 1980 and that his father later sowed the family’s only car to propagate evangelism.
The governor charged the management of BIU to sustain the vision of the late Archbishop Idahosa, saying the man of God could see far beyond his peers when he was alive.
