Gov. Fayose calls President Buhari a coward over absence at Ogoni

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Fayose had since 2015 attacked the President and his administration at every given opportunity insisting neither the President nor the ruling party is fit to govern the country.
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  • Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state
    Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state   

    Governor Ayodele Peter Fayose,  has referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as a coward and unfit to secure the country after alleging that the President chickened out of his trip to Ogoni land in Rivers state, as a result of the assassination threat from the Niger Delta Avengers.  

    Speaking through his special assistant on public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka, the of Ekiti State governor said it is shameful and embarrassing to see that the President could succumb to ordinary threats from militants.
    “It is shameful and embarrassing that a retired military general could succumb to threat from militants despite what he told Nigerians that he was going to lead from the fronts,” read the statement.



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