Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, says President
Muhammadu Buhari is to be blamed for the ultimatum by Northern youths to
Igbos.
He said his previous utterances gave the youths courage
to speak out without fear.
Fayose recalled that Buhari allegedly said his
government might not favour any section of the country that voted against him
during the 2015 presidential poll.
“How can a President that was just sworn-in after a
tension-soaked election be saying that any section that didn’t vote for him
won’t benefit from his appointments?”, Fayose asked in Ado Ekiti during a
meeting with members of the Conference of Ekiti State Private Sectors and
non-indigenes.
“By implication, such President was openly giving room for
sectionalism and that was exactly what President Buhari did after the election.
We could all confirm that Nigeria has never been this divided in history.
“Every Nigerian knew that the people of the southeast didn’t
vote for him, so that automatically gave that Northern groups to have the
effrontery to order Igbos out of their region. When a leader speaks like that,
something like this is bound to happen.
“We can’t deny the fact that the problem has gone so deep in
dividing us. But it is not beyond solution. The leaders from Southeast and the
North should sit down and iron out their differences in the interest of
everybody”, he said.
Fayose commended Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for meeting
with leaders from the two feuding regions, saying this would help in stemming
the tide of war drum.
By Wale Odunsi
