Buhari's US trip is “joke of the year” - Fayose

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele
Fayose has called on well-meaning
Nigerians to prevail on President
Mohammadu Buhari to stop his
needless foreign trips, describing the
president’s trip to the United States of
America on Wednesday for the 4th
Nuclear Security Summit while
Nigerians are suffering at home as
“joke of the year.”
The governor said “it remains a mystery what
President Buhari that met power generation
at 6,000MW and could not manage it such
that power generation crumbled to Zero
Megawatt yesterday, will contribute to the
Nuclear Energy Summit in America.”
Speaking through his Special Assistant on
Public Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, Governor Fayose said “it is
shameful that while President Buhari was far
away in the United States of America,
attending a summit that does not have any
bearing on Nigeria and its people, an
unprecedented happened - power generation
stopped completely for over three hours!”
He said the sufferings of Nigerians deserved
the attention of the president instead of
junketing around the world, wasting the
country’s scarce foreign exchange. The
governor alleged that over $50 million must
have been spent on the president’s frequent
foreign trips, adding that Nigerians should
ask President Buhari whether his trip to the
United States of America to attend Nuclear
Energy Summit will bring the lingering fuel
scarcity being experienced in the country to
an end.
“Nigerians are suffering. Petrol has become
so scarce that our people now sleep in petrol
stations to buy fuel at N200 per litre while
the president who should alleviate their
sufferings is in the USA, attending a summit
that he won’t even understand whatever that
is discussed there. “This is not acceptable. Mr
President should stay at home and see to it
that at least, power generation returns to
6,000MW that he met it if he cannot add to
it.
“Mr President should stay at home and bring
this fuel scarcity that has paralysed almost all
activities in the country to an end. “Nigerians
are saying their president should stay at
home and bring to an end the killings, raping
of women and destruction of farmlands by
Fulani herdsmen.
“Most importantly, the President should listen
more to those of us who criticise him instead
of those hailing every of his wrong steps
either because of what they intend to gain or
for fear of persecution,” the governor said.