Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said the apology offered
by President Mohammadu Buhari on his failure to conduct free, fair and
credible elections since he assumed office and his abuse of rule of
law and regulations, especially on his dissolution of Governing
Councils of universities was not enough, adding that the President
should rather respect rule of law and rights of Nigerians to hold
opinions.

While addressing his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), President Buhari had apologised for dissolving governing councils of
universities along with the boards of parastatal agencies and also
declared that he did not succeed in the election in Kogi, Bayelsa and
Rivers States.

Reacting through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said; “The best apology from President Buhari is to repent and purge himself of dictatorial tendencies and begin to see Nigeria as his Constituency, not the Hausa/Fulani and his APC members only.”

Governor Fayose, who described the apology as admittance that the
President was not governing the country right since he assume office,
added that the President must go a step further by holding his men,
who caused the killings in Rivers State accountable for the crime they
committed.”

The governor said the President must also apologise to the Agatu
people of Benue State for looking the other way when Fulani herdsmen
were killing over 500 of their people, including pregnant women and
children.

He said; “Now that the President has eaten the humble pie by apologising for being wrong all this while, one wonders where those who called us names for criticising the President and even plotted to destabilise our government will hide their sycophantic faces.”

“While it is good to apologise when one is wrong, President Buhari
should be told expressly that Nigerians are not interested in his
apology. Rather, he should turn a new leave and do the right thing by
governing Nigeria in accordance with the 1999 Constitution that he
swore to uphold.

“The President should stop the blackmail, harassment, intimidation and oppression of perceived political opponents, obey court orders and
stop convicting Nigerians in his own mind.

“He should ask questions as to why INEC produced results sheets for
over 230 polling units in Rivers State with PDP omitted, hold those
responsible for the fraud accountable and question why the INEC
Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu has not been able to conduct any
conclusive election since he was appointed.

“Buhari’s men, who invaded Rivers State with soldiers and killed many
people, including youth corp member must be made to face the full
wrath of the law.

“Most importantly, he should stop the Department of State Services
(DSS) from acting as the security agent of the APC in Ekiti State by
going about arresting and detaining without trial for unfounded
allegations that are not within the mandate of the service.

“The President should be reminded that Nigerians are only interested
in being able to feed and live their lives without any encumbrance,
President Buhari should stop making live difficult for Nigerians with
his obnoxious policy that has killed small scale businesses and
rendered millions of Nigerians jobless,” Governor Fayose said.