The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the attacks on the ‘Resume or Resign’, protesters, describing it as the height of dictatorship and demonstration of intolerance to opposing views by the All Progressives Congress APC government.
Governor Fayose, in his support for resume or resign protest said “Nigeria can no longer afford a diaspora president or a president that is seen once in 100 days. If they say the President is now well, he should return to Nigeria or is Nigeria now in the hands of the President’s doctors?”
Fayose who was particularly miffed by what he described as orchestrated attack on the protesters at Wuse market, Abuja added that “by arranging hoodlums to attack Nigerians who were exercising their fundamental rights to protest against the government, the APC government has shown that it has lost support and trust of Nigerians.”
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the Chairman of PDP Governors forum said in a statement that any attempt to silence Nigerians, especially those opposed to the APC government will fail,
According to the statement, “this country belongs to all of us, it is not the property of a few or a cabal who believes they can cow and subdue Nigerians, and we will continue to talk. The president must either resume or resign; this is a clear statement”.
The governor, who maintained that demanding for the health status of the President was the right of Nigerians, said it was funny that armed policemen were available to protect those who protested in support of the APC government, but the same police attacked the “Return or Resign” Protesters.
“It is therefore shameful that the same people who rode on the back of democratic principles to power are now standing against the rights of Nigerians to complain and the international community should pay special attention to the rule of brute force going on in the country” Fayose said.
