Voice of the
opposition, Governor Ayo Fayose, has described the sack of the Executive
Secretary of the Financial Regulatory Council of Nigeria (FRCN), Jim Obazee,
over
the implementation of the controversial Corporate Governance Code 2016 as
an afterthought and cover-up to stem the tide of negative public reactions to
the implementation of the controversial law that stripped the General Overseer
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, and others
of their positions.
Fayose, in a
statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka,
said:
“When they
realised the implication of their action on President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019
ambition, especially a 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.”
The governor
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 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 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 FRCN boss that they have now used as the
sacrificial lamb have implemented the law without the consent of the
Presidency?”
He questioned
the speed at which the President reacted by sacking the FRCN 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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