By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ado-Ekiti
Ekiti state Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has said that Nigerians were suffering under the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Mohammadu Buhari because “the country is in the hands of wrong managers, who do not know what to do and out of nepotism, not ready to be assisted by those who know.”
The governor said “presently, Nigerians are suffering, hungry and angry because the APC federal government has run the country aground”, adding that “Nigeria has gone beyond recession, the economy has collapsed completely and painfully, those who should revive the economy do not have any clue as to what to do.”
In a release issue in Ado-Ekiti yesterday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said Nigeria was experiencing the worst form of nepotism in the history of government in the country.
“Nepotism is the reason our President discarded competent people in his party that should be running the government with him and opted for his relatives, friends, in-laws and very close associates.
“The only qualification to hold key positions in the Presidency is to know a certain nephew of the President or be a member of his family, that is nepotism and what nepotism breeds is incompetence.
“The most influential person in the Presidency today is said to be one Mamman Daura, who is a nephew of the President. Personal Assistant to President Buhari is said to be the son of Mamman Daura, while the State Chief of Protocol is said to be married to Mamman Daura’s daughter.
“It is also the height of nepotism that apart from just two, all security chiefs and heads of all the paramilitary agencies in Nigeria, as well as all the political-heads overseeing all the military and paramilitary arms and agencies are, from the North,” the governor said.
He said President Buhari was obviously being tormented by fear of the unknown, which he described as the main reason people take to nepotism.
“As a leader, you don’t need to fear anything. But, the moment a leader peeps into the future, realising that his lack of capacity could have consequential effects on him, such a leader will definitely resort to nepotism to protect himself.
