Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has congratulated the newly
elected President of Liberia, George Opong Weah, describing him as someone destined by God to be president.
He said, “I salute George Weah’s courage and resilience in spite of the
activities and machinations of oppressors and interlopers, who blocked his victory 12 years ago. Because the likes of former President
Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria are not God, George Weah has been able to achieve
his destiny through the grace and power of God and I wish him a successful tenure.”
The governor, who also described the United Nation’s (UN) choice of Obasanjo as a mediator in Liberia as misplaced, pointed out:
“Someone like Obasanjo, who was at the centre of the manipulation of
George Weah’s electoral victory 12 years ago should not be the one to mediate now that he (Weah) has secured the victory that he was denied
then.”
Through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose urged the All Progressives
Congress (APC) led federal government and particularly the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to learn from what happened in Liberia and allow the will of the people to prevail in 2018 and 2019
elections.
He said, “The emergence of George Weah as Liberia President 12 years after he was short-changed by those who wielded power at that time is a further confirmation that there is no God in man.”
Governor Fayose called on the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, to withdraw the nomination of Obassanjo as a mediator in Liberia,
Stressing, “Obasanjo, who was a major actor in the Liberia’s 2005 election crisis lacked moral rights to be a mediator in the affairs of that country now that it had the first peaceful transfer of power from one democratically-elected leader to another in more than 70 years. He will rather compound the problems in Liberia because I don’t see him
being trusted by the President-Elect, whom he (Obasanjo) openly worked
against in 2005 to impose the outgoing President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for reasons best known to him.
“The UN should be mindful of the fact that someone like Obasanjo that may be seen as celebrity and champion of democracy internationally is
actually a bad and decayed element, lacking democratic credential in Nigeria, considering his failed third term agenda.”
The governor told leaders of Africa, especially the democrats among them to always avoid leaders like Obasanjo with questionable
antecedents, saying, “he is the actual confusion in the continent.