Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has described the raging controversies between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the 2016 Budget as a confirmation of his position that President Muhammadu Buhari was clueless and incompetent. “Nigerians should expect more blunders like this until they send Buhari back to Daura in 2019,” Fayose said.
The governor said that it was now obvious that the President and his All Progressives Congress (APC) only wanted power desperately without the wherewithal to govern. His words: “I warned Nigerians of the
consequences of electing an octogenarian as president and with the international embarrassment that this budget crisis has become, I have been vindicated.” In a statement issued on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, by his Special Assistant on Pubic Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said: “It is obvious that there is total disconnection between the President and his cabinet members as many of the ministers don’t even have access to him probably because the President spend most of his time resting as a result of his old age.
“The reality is that the President is challenged by age, exposure and ability. He did not read the budget proposal that he presented to the National Assembly and this should be a lesson for those who clamoured for a Buhari’s presidency that no man can give what he does not have.
“The question is; can a minister present supplementary budget to the National Assembly and can the National Assembly act on budget proposal submitted by a minister?
“It is shameful that after blaming former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for close to one year, the presidency is now blaming the National Assembly for its inability to prepare a common budget.”
The governor commended the National Assembly for exposing the lies and hypocrisy of the presidency, saying it was shameful that President Buhari and his men could blame the National Assembly for their
incompetence. He called on the National Assembly not to succumb to blackmail and intimidation from the Presidency, saying that the way and manner the Presidency was going about blackmailing and intimidating other arms of government, especially the judiciary should worry lovers of democracy and good governance in the country. The governor, who declared that Nigeria would no longer be ruled by
octogenarians, said, “Nigerians must have now come to terms that I warned them that Buhari is too old to govern a country like Nigeria.”
