…Describes Sponsored Political Advert As Distasteful
SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, (THEWILL) – President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been called upon to call the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, to order.
A former PDP chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, made the call Monday in a statement he personally signed, describing a front page advertorial credited to Fayose in the Monday edition of a major newspaper as distasteful.
The advertorial, according to Baraje, explicitly wished for the death of General Muhammadu Buhari, a former Head of State of Nigeria between 1984 and 1985, and the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Baraje, an elder statesman from Kwara State, said the advert credited to Fayose is possible of causing anarchy in the nation.
According to Baraje, “One would have expected that at the second coming of Fayose as Governor, we would expect him to be more careful and have outgrown his carelessness and irresponsible motor park attitude which is not expected of a Governor.”
Baraje said it is regrettable that barely a week after all political parties, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other stakeholders met to agree on conducting an issues-based and non-violent campaign, a senior member of PDP who is meant to be the leader of an entire state could stoop so low to wish the death on anyone – not to talk of a presidential candidate.
Baraje lamented that the failure of President Jonathan and the leadership of the PDP to distance itself from such comments and call Mr. Fayose to order is a direct indication that they are in support of Fayose making a mockery of the dead and trying to play God. According to Baraje, “only Allah is the one that knows the time of the passing of any individual.”
