SEE FAYOSE'S COMMENT ON BUHARI CANCELLING VISIT TO NIGER DELTA

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose

According to a statement signed by the Governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said that dialogue with the militants will save Nigeria’s fragile economy from collapse.

Fayose noted that the President’s inability to attend the flag off ceremony of Ogoni land clean-up was disgraceful.

He said “the President cannot afford to continue to talk tough on issues that dialogue can resolve.

“Now that the president has surrendered to the threat and intimidation of the Niger Delta Avengers, he should emulate late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua by having a roundtable talks with the Niger Delta militants.

“By not going to Ogoni today, because of threat from the NDA, our president has shown that he is actually afraid of the militants and the best thing to do in a situation like this is to dialogue with the militants so as to save Nigeria economy from imminent collapse.

“It also shows that the president’s ability to secure Nigeria and its people is doubtful, because if the president could succumb to threat from militants and abandon his official function for his deputy, ordinary Nigerians should seek help elsewhere.

“The president should therefore save Nigeria the agony of military misadventure in the Niger Delta by holding dialogue with the militants with a view to resolving their grievances.

“the Niger Delta region as at today is still the golden goose laying the golden egg on which all other regions are surviving.
“Diversification as good as it sounds, takes time. We need to appreciate these regions as our only source of income.” Fayose said.

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