Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has
described the sack of the Executive Secretary of the Financial
Regulatory Council (FRC) of Nigeria, Mr. Jim Obazee, in connection with
the implementation of the controversial Corporate Governance Code 2016
as an afterthought.
Fayose said the sack was a cover-up to stem
the tide of negative public reactions towards the implementation of the
controversial law that stripped the General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye and others of their
positions.
In a release issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday
and signed by the governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications
and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said, “When they realised
the implication of their action on President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019
ambition, especially the personality like Pastor Adeboye that’s
involved, they quickly sacked an innocent man who must have acted on
instruction.
“Obviously, their attention is more on 2019, not on justice and any love for the sustenance of Christianity in Nigeria.
Mind you, they have only suspended the
implementation of the regulation, they did not abrogate it. It is
obvious that they have an agenda. And if you look at the president’s
pattern of life, he is a sectional leader, whose appointments reflect
sectionalism and nepotism.”
He said it was funny that a president that
is over 70 years will be the one to implement a regulation limiting the
age of General Overseer (GO) of Churches to 70 years, asking; “If men of
God like Pastor Adeboye, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, Bishop David Oyedepo,
Bishop Mike Okonkwo and others cannot be GO of their church beyond 70
years of age, how do we now justify a man like President Buhari who is
over 74 and still willing to be president beyond 2019 that he will be
77?”
Governor Fayose, who described those
defending President Muhammadu Buhari by claiming that the law was made
when Dr Goodluck Jonathan was president as hypocrites, asked; “Even if
the law was made before President Buhari assumed office, who is to blame
for its implementation? Could President Buhari have implemented a law
he does not believe in and could the sacked FRC boss that they have now
used as the fall-guy have implemented the law without the consent of the
President?”
He questioned the speed at which the
President reacted by sacking the FRC boss, asking; “Why was there no
such swiftness in his action on Southern Kaduna killings where a race
was almost wiped out, with people killed like goats? Why didn’t the
President react swiftly to the Senate indictment of the EFCC Acting
Chairman, Ibrahim Magu?
“Obviously, it was an afterthought, which
was aimed at dousing the negative outcry that greeted the action by
using the sacked FRC boss as the fall-guy.
“This has further made it very clear and
evident that Buhari is not a leader, he is ruler. He is a religious
apologist that believes that he must silence anybody that does not
believe in his line of thought either politically or religious wise.
“Sadly, all those things that we have
forgotten and never thought will happen again in this country are now
happening. The country is now badly divided more than ever before.
“Nigerians have been able to read through
President Buhari in this short time to realise that all he is doing now
is to destroy this country like he did in 1984, but God will not allow
him.
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