SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, (THEWILL) – The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has stated that the non-invitation of President Muhammadu Buhari to Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, US, is a clear indication that Buhari no longer enjoys international relevance.
Stressing that the development was a very clear signal that Buhari’s government would not enjoy tangible support from the new US administration, Fayose said there is no doubt that Buhari is not in the good books of the incoming government of the United States.
This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the Governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, which stated that Buhari’s frequent visit and romance with the US under Obama was due to the tacit support given to Buhari by Obama to win the 2015 election with deception.
“With Obama’s role in the emergence of President Buhari, it can be said that he (Obama) is a member of the APC in the diaspora.
“In an important event like this in US, our president will be missing in action,” read part of the statement.
Fayose wondered why the same president, who was a regular visitor to the US during the Obama administration, is not being invited to be a part of the historic inauguration of a new administration in Washington.
“No doubt, something is fundamentally wrong because if there is hope of a future relationship between President Buhari and the new US President, they would have been celebrating his inauguration and would not have allowed Nigerians to hear any other news apart from Buhari going to America.
“Obviously, Buhari’s junketing to US that gulped $1m per trip, has come to an inglorious end,” the Ekiti governor said.
Congratulating Trump for winning against all odds, like he (Fayose) won his own election in Ekiti in 2014, he urged the new American president to do everything possible to save Nigeria from the wanton killings and horrid human rights abuses of the Buhari administration.
Fayose enjoined Trump to use his good offices to look into the daily killings in Nigeria particularly in Southern Kaduna where over 1,000 people were slaughtered like goats and buried in mass graves.
According to the statement, “The Southern Kaduna killings is a clear case of genocide that must be thoroughly investigated and unraveled.
“To make matters worse was the bombing of the Internally Displaced Persons camp by the military in desperation to cover up the corruption and mismanagement of affairs in the camp.
”We appeal to Trump to ensure that the voice of the opposition is not silenced in this country.
“We however appreciate the non invitation of Buhari because that will give him the much needed opportunity to face the problems he inflicted on Nigeria, especially the IDP bombing, which left over 100 hapless Nigerians dead.”
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