SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, (THEWILL) – The Presidency has described Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as one who is “childishly obsessed with the desire to grab the headlines and insulting people at will because of his incurably boorish instincts.”
This was contained in a press statement released on Tuesday by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in reaction to Fayose’s statement regarding a bribery scandal involving a certain Aisha Buhari and William Jefferson, US congressman.
Shehu dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by Fayose to link President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, to the Haliburton scandal for which the American lawmaker was convicted in 2009.
“Ordinarily the presidency would have ignored Fayose because he is a man childishly obsessed with the desire to grab the headlines and insulting people at will because of his incurably boorish instincts,” Shehu said in a statement.
“However the Presidency chose to respond on this occasion for the sake of innocent Nigerians who might be misled by Fayose’s shameless and blatant distortion of facts.
“Ignoring Fayose carried the risk of giving traction and credibility to outright and brazen falsehoods inconsistent with the status of anybody that calls himself a Governor or leader as silence might cause the allegations to gain traction and credibility.”
Shehu declared that the president’s wife, Aisha, has links with the William Jefferson’s corruption scandal in the United States adding that the pictures of the said Aisha looked nothing close to the president’s wife or any of his blood relatives.
Shehu asked Fayose “to produce evidence from the records of investigation and subsequent trial of Jefferson to prove that Mr. Buhari’s wife Aisha was in anyway linked to that scandal.
He warned Fayose that Aisha Buhari was entitled to protect her reputation from being recklessly maligned, adding that political opposition was not a licence to attack people’s reputation brazenly without legal consequences.
