By Ayo Kehinde
Masari and Fayose
Governors Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and his Katsina counterpart Aminu Bello Masari have expectedly reacted differently to the Presidents’ declaration to seek a second term in office
For Fayose who spoke to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, said the Buhari is old and tired and should go and take a deserved rest while Buhari’s home state governor, Masari said the intention was done out of love for country
According to Fayose: “That ambition is dead on arrival. We don’t want grandpa as president anymore. Nigeria does not deserve a Buhari as president in 2019. Buhari is old and tired. When people don’t know when to take their leave and say bye, Nigerians will show them the exit door. He has done more harm to this country. His ambition is a means by which Nigerians will tell him good riddance to bad rubbish when they boot him out of office. He is an easy candidate to defeat in the poll for he has failed woefully.
“He has failed in all fronts. He has failed in his so-called fight against corruption, he has failed in the economic front. He has not done well in term of security. People are being killed in large number daily and Nigerians have no confidence in him. ” His declaration today is a slap on Nigerians in the face of what Nigerians are passing through. His government is not only clueless, but in a shambles. He should go home and rest, ” he said.
Governor Masari who stated this in a statement through his Senior Special Adviser on Media, Abdu Labaran Malumfashi said: “we owe ourselves the duty to ensure that President Buhari continues beyond 2019, so that he could consolidate on the achievements so far recorded under his watch. “We will pull out all the stops, leaving nothing to chance in our efforts to ensure that Katsina state gives the President the highest votes in 2019. “I congratulate ourselves (Nigerians) for this wonderful news of the President’s declaration to go for re-election in 2019, because there is no one better than him for the office, for now,”
