A group known as the Muslim Rights Concern,
MURIC, on Sunday dispelled claim by the Ekiti State
Governor, Ayodele Fayose that President
Muhammadu Buhari is plotting to Islamise Nigeria.
In a statement by the group’s head, Prof Ishaq
Akintola, the group said the Ekiti State Governor was
suffering from “diarrhea of the mouth.”
Fayose had on Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers
state, alleged that the recent trip of Buhari to Saudi
Arabia was to formalise ways of Islamising the
country.
But Akintola said, “By making such a wild and
untenable statement, Fayose has just emerged as
the most idle executive governor Nigeria ever had,”
“Even a ten-year old Nigerian child knows the
reason for Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia. Turbulence
in the price of oil has greatly impoverished Nigeria
and Buhari is employing diplomacy to turn round our
oil fortune.
“Playing pranks with Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia
simply shows that Fayose has lost all sense of
objectivity. Like a comedian governor and a court
jester primus inter pares, Fayose prefers to cast a
wicked joke with the fate of the Nigerian economy.
“But his attempt to whip up religious sentiment has
failed woefully because Nigerians know that Fayose
is a pathological liar, an unstable politician and an
unreliable judge of men.”
Akintola wondered why the Ekiti State Governor did
not complain when former President, Goodluck
Jonathan while in office visited Jerusalem regularly.
“Nigerians should help us ask Fayose where he was
when his erstwhile mentor and former President
Jonathan turned Jerusalem to the back-yard of Aso
Rock, shuttling between Nigeria and Israel with jet-
loads of marabouts and arms money. Was Fayose’s
mouth padlocked at that time?” Akintola queried.