Nigeria Presidency Is Operating A Government Within A Government -Gov Fayose

Fayose in a statement issued on Thursday, April 20, by his special assistant on public communications and new media, Lere Olayinka, has questioned  the whereabout of President Buhari and wondered who has been dishing out orders

The Statement reads


"Every day, what we hear is president said this, president said that without seeing the president in any official function and one is prompted to ask; where is the president?”

Speaking on the suspension of SGF Babachir Lawal, he said: “I saw the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal on television responding to his suspension and what came to my mind was that there could actually be many presidents operating in the Buhari’s presidency." According to him there is confusion in Buhari’s government because of a possible existence of governments within the government, Daily Trust reports.

Fayose said: “Perhaps, it is for this reason of possible existence of governments within the government of Buhari that confusion pervades the polity, with the President himself writing letter to the Senate to clear someone of wrongdoing and the same person being suspended three months after on the basis of the same allegation. It is also for this reason that the President nominated Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation as EFCC Chairman and the DSS, an agency under the Presidency wrote the Senate not to confirm him.

“Most importantly, the President did not attend the FEC meeting last week and the meeting did not hold this week under the flimsy excuse that Easter Break stalled it. How could Easter Break that ended on Monday be responsible for the inability to hold FEC meeting on Wednesday? Definitely, there is more to this than meets the eye. “It has therefore become necessary that Nigerians hear the voice of their President and see him physically, not through surrogates or the cabal operating behind the scene,” the governor said.