Buhari Should Resign – Fayose

Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose has blamed the
Department of State Services for leaking an edited
copy of his telephone with the governor of Rivers
State Nyesom Wike to incriminate him and Wike.
“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,”
Fayose said in a statement through Lere Olayinka, his
special assistant on public communications and new
media.
An online medium, Sahara Reporters, on Thursday,
published an audio tape in which a person purported
to be Wike confessed to how he used his position as
the governor of the state to influence the outcome of
the bloody December 10 Rivers rerun polls.
Though the Ekiti State governor did not disclaim the
leaked audio tape, he, however, that it had been
doctored.
“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.
He insisted the federal government was threatened by
his popularity and endorsement by notable religious
leaders such as Enoch Adeboye and Pastor W. F.
Kumuyi. The ruling All Progressives Congress thus
resorted to using the DSS and other security agencies
to intimidate him and other leading opposition figures,
he said.
The governor described the DSS secretly recording his
telephone conversations as the height of the 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.
While maintaining that the APC led federal
government do not respect the laws of the country,
Governor 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.”