Buhari’s Visit To Taraba, Others State, An After thought- Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s plan to  visit Taraba and planned visit to Benue, Zamfara, Yobe and Rivers states as an afterthought.

He said the President is more interested in his reelection in 2019 and wishes to visit those state to canvass for votes and not to sympathize with people on their loses.

Recall that Naija News had earlier reported that the PDP noted that the presidents decision to visit these states, were an afterthought.

Fayose, in a statement issued today by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said “it was the height of cruelty that the same President, who promised to lead from the front in the fight against Boko Haram, could not visit Dapchi, Yobe State where 110 school girls were abducted by the insurgents but went on merrymaking in Kano”.

“On January 9 and 12, this year, 88 victims of herdsmen attacks were given mass burial in Taraba State. Also on January 11, 2018, another 73 persons killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Benue State were buried in a mass grave in Makurdi, the state capital.

“Meaning that in Taraba and Benue States alone, 161 Nigerians were given mass burial within three days! This never caught the attention of our President. Rather, it was a visit to Nasarawa, a neighboring State to Benue that was important to him.

“To further demonstrate his lack of compassion for Nigerians, while the entire nation, especially parents of the 110 abducted school girls in Dapchi, Yobe State are still in anguish, President Buhari went to Kano last Saturday to attend a social function, thus sparking negative reactions from Nigerians.