Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, returned to a familiar tuff on Saturday night declaring that ‘only God will save Nigeria’ at the moment, as the country was headed for a major disaster.
The former Governor who featured in an Instagram Live Chat with the Chief Executive Officer, Ovation Media Group, Dele Momodu, said for once, he was in agreement with former President Olusegun Obasanjo especially as it concerns the future of the country.
He said the predictions of the former president since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed power were coming to pass.
Obasanjo had at an event in Abuja on Thursday said Nigeria was slowly becoming a failed state that urgently needed to be pulled from the brink of collapse.
The former President also stated that he had never seen Nigeria so divided, adding that many of the problems currently plaguing the country were due to the recent mismanagement of Nigeria’s diversity.
Fayose specifically expressed dismay at the worsening security situation in the country, as well as rising debt profile, insisting that urgent steps must be taken to rescue the country from impending catastrophe.
“Of all the Presidents, I don’t like Obasanjo ways, I tell you the truth; I don’t like his ways at all. Me and him we are not on the same page but Obasanjo is the only one-time Nigerian President that has helped this country here and there.
“The fact remains that if you look at the Obasanjo time, there are certain things he put in place and don’t forget, he saved this country a lot of money. He saved this country a lot of money. These people have squandered all we have. The way Obasanjo brought it down, they have taken it up.
“When I started talking about President Buhari, even you, Dele Momodu, criticised me. Even you, Dele Momodu was looking at a saint in Buhari. Today, most of you now should cover your faces in shame, that you gave Nigerians a wrong road and a wrong path. It’s regrettable.
Everything I said about that government at the time, when it was still in embryo, everything has happened today.
“I said in 2015 that President Buhari will be a shield for the looters to bleed this country. I said so many things that this President has no capacity.
“My brother, have you seen a country govern the way this country is being governed? Have you seen one? Everybody now, we are in crisis, we are trouble, the economy is in trouble. You remember, Operation Occupy Nigeria? Where are these people now? You people should occupy again, we are waiting for you to occupy. This country is in trouble, we need God, we need intervention.
“Look at our debt profile. We may wake up one day and they say China has come to take over. So, we should handover to China. It is a very sad development. If they don’t address the electoral process in this country, we are going nowhere. When the government begins to fear the people, things will change.
“This APC in five years is dastardly, more terrible than the PDP in 16 years.
“Nothing is personal between me and President Buhari, he didn’t take my wife and I don’t even have the capacity to take his wife but this country is not governed well.”
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