Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has declared that the advert he
placed in which he raised doubts about the health status of the
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), was neither a death wish nor
laced with sinister motives.
Fayose clarified that his reason for taking the step was to prevent a
recurrence of constitutional crisis, which the sudden demise of late
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had created in the country.
He, however, reiterated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
candidate in the February 14 presidential election, President
Goodluck Jonathan, will win the election convincingly.
The Governor stated this in Ado Ekiti on Saturday while playing host
to a team of American diplomats in his office led by the United
States Consul-General in Lagos, Mr. Jeffrey Hawkins.
Fayose said the state witnessed a peaceful poll last year during the
governorship election, expressing confidence that the standard this
time around would not be lower.
Explaining to the diplomats about the advertorial, Fayose said it was
not a death wish advert but to appeal to sense of reasoning to
prevent the episode of 2010 when the National Assembly had to
invoke Doctrine of Necessity for President Jonathan, the then Vice-
President, to take over in acting capacity, when Yar’Adua had been
incapacitated by sickness.
source - thisdaylive.com
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