Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has accused the Department of State Service (DSS) of recording telephone conversations of Nigerians perceived as critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government, editing the conversations and leaking same to Sahara Reporters, which has now become the official
propaganda platform of the Federal Government.
Fayose, who said he was not bothered by the new sinister
antic of the federal government, added that; “Rather than sitting down and be monitoring peoples phones, the federal government should provide food for Nigerians and save the lives of those that are being killed in Southern Kaduna and other places.”
The governor, who reacted to his telephone conversation with Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike that was published by Sahara Reporters, through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said: “If the President and his hatchet men in the DSS, EFCC and other federal government agencies do not know what
to do other than to record phone conversations of their perceived political foes, they should just resign and save the country from this harrowing experience.”
He said it was obviously that they were being threatened by the complimentary comments of notable Nigerians like Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and others about him because those comments negate the cabal’s evil intentions.
The governor described the DSS recording telephone conversations of Nigerians and leaking them to Sahara Reporters to publish as the height of political rascality, manipulation, oppression, suppression and irresponsibility by agents of the federal government that are trying so hard to cover up the crimes they perpetrated against the people of Rivers State.
“They should even go beyond taping of my lines and come to live with
me in Ekiti Government House so that they can do per seconds live recordings of whatever I say because in the year 2017, by the grace of God, I will still say more without apology,” he said.
Fayose said for the first time since democracy returned to
the country in 1999, Nigerians were celebrating Christmas and new year with hunger and sufferings beyond measure.
“Nigerians are asking for food on their tables, they want employments,
they want security, not recording of people’s phone conversations and
handing it to a road side online platform to publish.
“Unemployment and job loss are increasing at a very alarming rate
while the electoral process is daily being bastardised.
“Rather than tackling hunger and the country’s economic woes, they
have embarked on diversionary tactics with irrelevant stories of
Governors Wike and Fayose’s phone conversations, governors who do not
bear arms and have no control over any security apparatus,” the
governor said.
He said: “I knew it before now that telephone conversations of
prominent Nigerians, especially National Assembly members and
opposition figures are being monitored, but I have remained
unperturbed in my resolve to play my roles in rescuing Nigeria from
the jaws of tyranny, which the present APC federal government
represents.”
While maintaining that the APC led federal government do not respect
the laws of the country, Fayose said: “They know that what
they are doing is illegal and clear contravention of Section 37 of the
1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which provides
that; ‘The privacy of citizens, their homes, correspondence, telephone
conversations and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed and
protected.’
“However, because they are criminally minded and are running a
tyrannical government, using the DSS, EFCC and other agencies, one is
not surprised at the current development.
He encourage Nigerians not to keep silent in the face of this
tyranny, saying; “it will get to everybody one day, some day.”
He said; “Like I said before, their style has become so predictable.
Whenever Nigerians cry of the pains and sufferings they are going
through, they will come with flimsy stories like; “20 Chibok girls
found,” “$1 billion found in Mr A, B or C bedroom,” “Boko Haram
technically defeated,” “We have captured Sambisa forest,” “Governors
Wike and Fayose’s phone conversations leaked,” etc just to divert
attention.
“Regrettably, Governors Wike and Fayose that bear no arms remain their
headache while their agents that bear arms like guns, armoured tanks
and fighter jets etc, using them against Nigerians have not been
called to question.
“Going by the barrage of pains being inflicted on Nigerians by his
cluelessness, if I will give the President a candid advise, I will
tell him to resign because he has failed Nigerians, whose votes he
obtained by deception. Under his watch, Dollar is now N500 to $1,
their is unprecedented hunger in the land, Nigerians are being killed
in Southern Kaduna and other places,
“It is better for the President to resign because he appears not to
have capacity for positivity.
“If all the presidents that ruled before Buhari had behaved like he is
behaving now, he himself will be in jail.
“However, let me say it once again, I am one person who is not afraid
of death or incarceration. I will keep telling Nigerians the truth,
which obviously hurts Buhari and the cabal around him.”
