Opeyemi Bamidele, a member of the Federal House of Representatives, today warned Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose to stop further harassment of presidential flagbearer of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari.
This he said is consistently causing great embarrassment to the state. It would be recalled that governor Fayose had consistently claimed that Buhari, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, was too fragile to be president of the country.
Besides the governor had also suggested that the recent trip of Buhari was to enable him get medical attention, contrary to the position of the APC that he was in United Kingdom on a working visit.
However in a statement in Ado Ekiti, the lawmaker maintained that Fayose, by his constant abuse of elders like former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Buhari, was a cancer to the polity.
According to Bamidele, "The statements credited to the Governor constituted a rude invasion of Buhari’s privacy and a rough-neck tactic. Even if, according to Governor Fayose, General Buhari had visited a hospital during his foreign trip, the reasonable question to ask, I would think, is whether or not General Buhari deserves rest or even a medical check-up after a full-fledged and most rigorous (over 30 days) campaign during which he did not miss a single rally?
"Let Governor Fayose caution himself. Let him leave Gen. Buhari alone and come up with a more positive and decent manner of adding value to our democracy and politics. Right now, he is like cancer.
"Let him stop dragging the name and image of Ekiti in the mud. Ekiti people abhor hate politics and if even Abuja would disown Gov. Fayose’s hate campaign style, then the extent of damage he is doing to the Jonathan campaign in Ekiti State is better left in the realm of imagination."
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