Fayose: Buhari about to step on Tinubu’s mine, urges APC candidate to resign

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has revealed a
game plan by the South-West All Progressive Congress (APC) leaders, led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to again shortchange the North just as former President Olusegun Obasanjo did when he nominated the late Alhaji
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from the North to replace him in 2007.
Fayose, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, in Ado Ekiti at the weekend, said the APC leaders were further encouraged by the mere fact that such a game plan succeeded as the power returned to the South barely three years after the exit of Obasanjo.
According to him, the main reason why the APC leaders gave the ticket to General Muhammadu Buhari was their plan to make the 72-year-old General, who they believe would be too weak to go beyond 2019, to step down for the Vice President.
Fayose, who boasted that the APC cannot win the March 28 election, said that part of the APC leaders’ game plan should Buhari win the election is to begin a propaganda two years to the 2019 general elections on why Buhari cannot continue in office.
In what looks like a political landmine, Fayose explained that Tinubu and others have mapped out step-by-step propaganda that will portray Buhari as too old to continue as the President so that there will be clamour for his deputy who could be the present pastor Yemi Osibajo or Tinubu himself to take over from as practised constitutionally and conventionally .
The governor said: “It is very clear that APC and Buhari cannot win but we need to expose their game plan so that the North don’t fall into their deceit. They have many options, and supposed Buhari lives beyond their imagination, by 2017, they will begin by using the media to discuss his age. They will say he is too weak, old and sickly to go for second a
term.
“They will say that Buhari’s deputy, who may be Osinbajo or Tinubu, should step in. Their lawyers are there to raise constitutional provisions to back up their agenda.”
Fayose stressed also that by doing so, the Tinubu and southern planners would have successfully shortchanged the North of their entitled eight-year stint at the presidency.
The Ekiti governor reminds the Northern political stakeholders of what happened in the case of the imposition of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua by Obasanjo who knew before hand that the ailing former President would not be able to complete his term which has now become an advantage to
the southern part of the country and a shortchange to the North.
He warned Northern leaders not to fall to the selfish plans of the southern political vampire as represented by Tinubu and
others in the APC, saying the North should rather wait till 2019 when they would present a young, intelligent, healthy and dynamic candidate.
Fayose reminded the North that as chairman of PDP fact-finding committee on suitable candidate to replace Obasanjo, he presented a list of competent hands for Obasanjo to pick from but he went for Yar’ Adua who never showed interest due to ill health.
” I still maintain that if one of those in my committee’s list had been picked to replace Obasanjo , a Northern will still be in power till 2015.
” Therefore, the North should not listen to those who want to
shortchange them the second time, ” said Fayose.
Fayose also said Buhari and APC no longer have moral rights to participate in the March 28 presidential election having lied to Nigerians on several occasions.
The governor noted with dismay the contemptuous manner in which the APC and Buhari hold Nigeria and its people.
Fayose, who vowed that Nigeria will never be ruled by deceit,
said: “In saner climes, you can’t lie and be discovered to have lied repeatedly as done by the APC and still want to stand for elections.
“The new deceit from the APC is to use a photoshoped picture
of Buhari for posters in Lagos, making him look like a 50-year-old man, whereas he is as old as my mother and cannot survive the rigours of office even as a governor not to talk of President of Nigeria.”
He noted that it was appalling that despite being found to have lied on several occasions, the APC has never deemed it necessary to apologise to Nigerians for trying to deceive them.
His words: “First, the APC Vice Presidential candidate, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, a supposed pastor posted picture of Reinhard Bonnke crusade on his Twitter Handle, claiming that the picture was that of APC campaign rally in Kano.
“Second, the APC claimed that Buhari made a surprise visit to Chibok and went further to lie that the people and parents of Chibok girls were filled with hope and joy upon sighting Buhari and his entourage, and escorted him into Chibok with singing and dancing.
“Third, the APC cabal claimed that Buhari travelled to the United Kingdom on a working visit and used fake pictures to back up their lies that Buhari met with ex-British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and had a television interview in London.
“Even when Buhari’s wife admitted that her husband was in the UK to rest, the APC cabal went on with their lies, using pictures taken in Transcorp Hilton, Abuja as proof of Buhari’s activities in London.
“If a party and its candidate could lie so brazenly as done by the APC and Buhari, do they still have moral rights to want to rule Nigeria?
“God forbid, can Buhari and his APC cabals that are not truthful about their existence as human beings be trusted to be truthful to Nigerians if they take over power?”