President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP lied in their claim that no entreaty was made to woo All Progressives Congress, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu into a proposed interim government, former Governor Kayode Fayemi said Sunday.
Fayemi, presently the director of policy in the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation who disclosed the existence of verifiable proof of the plot also reassured the president and his aides that a future APC national government would not witch-hunt them through a probe.
Fayemi, who spoke in Ado Ekiti nevertheless cautioned the PDP led administration against allowing any harm to the person of Tinubu, warning that any such harm would mean crossing the red line as he said that Tinubu’s assertion of a threat to his life was true.
Fayemi spoke at Aramoko Ekiti Sunday during the 40-day Fidau for the late Pa Jejelola Akingbolu and Mrs Raliat Akingbolu.
Tinubu had last week alleged that the presidency had made a bait towards him to be part of an interim government to be constituted in the event the scheduled elections were truncated.
His assertion was despite prior dismissals of the plot for an interim government by President Jonathan, who described assertions towards an interim government as constitutionally untenable.
Pressing the claim of the existence of a plot Sunday, Fayemi said that Tinubu’s allegation was not meant to malign the personality of the president.
“President Jonathan is becoming desperate by the day and he would stop at nothing to return to government. You know what they did in Ekiti. So, there was nothing Tinubu said that was not verifiable.
I have evidence that he was invited to be part of Interim Government as a way of dividing us as a prominent member of our party. There is absolutely nothing they cannot do to distract us because they could see that Presidency is gradually slipping off their hands.
“It was good that these alarms were being raised and put on the front burner that there was a sinister intention to subvert the will of the people.
“What Nigerians are looking for now is for the elections to be held on March 28 as scheduled by INEC and for the victor who is overwhelmingly elected by the popular votes to be announced.
“What Nigerians are looking for now is for the elections to be held on March 28 as scheduled by INEC and for the victor who is overwhelmingly elected by the popular votes to be announced.
“We as party leaders and members of the opposition are ready to congratulate the winner, but if they go ahead and subvert the will of the people, they will surely go to jail”, Fayemi stated.
Fayemi assured that Buhari will keep to his promise not to dig into the financial corruption of the past, including those that may have been perpetrated by the present administration.
“Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari said he won’t look into the past. He said he would draw the line on the very day he takes over, and I don’t know why President Jonathan who has the paraphernalia of office is afraid of election.
“There is nothing the PDP even as a ruling party has not done to ensure that these elections are not held. We have heard about the sowing of fake army uniform, we have heard about how they want to use the army to rig the election, we have seen attempts to sack Prof Attahiru Jega, we have heard about how they have been preaching about religion, talking about the health of Gen. Buhari and the way they had been canvassing for postponement of elections and non-usage of card readers. The big question still remains, why are they afraid of election?”, he asked.
Flaying Fayose for allegedly lying about Gen. Buhari’s health status, Fayemi urged the governor to stop ridiculing and debasing the virtue of respect the state is known for.
“We have heard somebody whose own definition of politics is about lying saying Gen Buhari was taken to a hospital in London. Buhari never went to the hospital throughout the 10 days he was in London because I was with him throughout.
“Fayose even used his mother as an example of how people who are old used to behave just because he wanted to drive home a point that Gen Buhari was sick. This is like disgracing his own mother in the public and it is against the value Ekiti is known for.
“If Jonathan loses this election, he can still get whatever he wants. It is a matter of negotiation with Buhari, who has promised not to probe the past governments.
“But I want to say that we will hold Jonathan’s government responsible if even a little thing happens to Tinubu”, Fayemi concluded..
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