The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described the sack of
the Executive Secretary of the Financial Regulatory Council of Nigeria,
Jim Obazee, in connection with the implementation of the controversial
Corporate Governance Code 2016 as an afterthought and cover-up to stem
the tide of negative public reactions to the implementation of the
controversial law that stripped the General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, and others of
their positions.
This was contained in a release issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday and
signed by the Governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and
New Media, Lere Olayinka.
Governor Fayose said: “When they realised the implication of their
action on President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 ambition, especially a
personality like Pastor Adeboye that’s involved, they quickly sacked an
innocent man who must have acted on instruction.
“Obviously, their attention is more on 2019, not on justice and any
love for the sustenance of Christianity in Nigeria. Mind you, they have
only suspended the implementation of the regulation, they did not
abrogate it. It is obvious that they have an agenda. And if you look at
the president’s pattern of life, he is a sectional leader, whose
appointments reflect sectionalism and nepotism.”
Fayose said it was funny that a president that is over 70 years will
be the one to implement a regulation limiting the age of General
Overseer of Churches to 70 years, asking: “If men of God like Pastor
Adeboye, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, Bishop David Oyedepo, Bishop Mike Okonkwo
and others cannot be GO of their church beyond 70 years of age, how do
we now justify a man like President Buhari who is over 74 and still
willing to be president beyond 2019 that he will be 77?”
Governor Fayose, who described those defending President Buhari by
claiming that the law was made when Dr. Goodluck Jonathan was president
as hypocrites, asked: “Even if the law was made before President Buhari
assumed office, who is to blame for its implementation? Could President
Buhari have implemented a law he does not believe in and could the
sacked FRC boss that they have now used as the sacrificial lamb have
implemented the law without the consent of the Presidency?”
He questioned the speed at which the President reacted by sacking the
FRC boss, asking: “Why was there no such swiftness in his action on
Southern Kaduna killings where a race was almost wiped out, with people
killed like goats? Why didn’t the President react swiftly to the Senate
indictment of the EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu?
“Obviously, it was an afterthought, which was aimed at dousing the
negative outcry that greeted the action by using the sacked FRC boss as
the fall-guy.
“This has further made it very clear and evident that Buhari is not a
leader, he is ruler. He is a religious apologist that believes that he
must silence anybody that does not believe in his line of thought either
politically or religious wise.
“Sadly, all those things that we have forgotten and never thought
will happen again in this country are now happening. The country is now
badly divided more than ever before.
“Nigerians have been able to read through President Buhari in this
short time to realise that all he is doing now is to destroy this
country like he did in 1984, but God will not allow him.”
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