MUST READ!! Ayodele Fayose: Ignorance, Economic Sabotage & The Mockery of Governance
In my revue of 26th September, 2014, I posited, "Ekiti State, where the last experiment of Stomach Infrastructure took place successfully is again in the wrong side of the news. This time around, the precursor of Amala & Ewedu political strategy, governor-elect Ayo Fayose is reported to have slapped a Judge at the appeal tribunal, resulting to civic unrest in Ado Ekiti.
Ekiti Kete people have long ago digested the bags of rice and lies from
their OGBENGWE gomna in waiting but what awaits them is the rascality
they are now witnessing in form of "mafo". "I state once again that, on
the politics of "Amala & Ewodu", Mr. Fayose has not failed anybody
in the forgotten corners of Ekiti Kete and elsewhere in Nigeria.
The comic rift between the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government took another dimension as the governor wrote a scathing letter to Chinese authorities urging them to halt a $2 billion trade loan to Nigeria.
In the letter dated April 12, a copy of which was made available through PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, Mr. Fayose said the Chinese authorities should know that all Nigerians, notwithstanding their political and religious affiliations, are against any applications for new foreign loans. He said servicing current debt burden already gulps over 25 per cent of the country’s annual budget.
The Chief of Staff to the governor, Dipo Anisulowo, delivered the letter. which has the reference number EK/GOV/28/10, to the Chinese government through the country’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Gu Xiaojie, in Abuja Thursday.
An accompanying statement hinted that Mr. Fayose will personally deliver a copy of the letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of his ongoing official trip to that country.
Mr. Fayose accused Mr. Buhari of attempting to obtain the loan under false pretences because some of the projects for which federal government sought the loan were not captured in the 2016 appropriation bill.
The letter read in part: “I write as one of the major stakeholders in the project Nigeria, and a governor of one of the federating units making up Nigeria, to draw your attention to report that the Federal Government of Nigeria is on the verge of obtaining a $2 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China.
“This $2 billion loan is part of the N1.84 trillion the Federal Government of Nigeria has proposed to borrow to finance the 2016 budget, which is yet to be signed by the President, Muhammadu Buhari owing to unending controversies between the Executive and Legislative arms of government.
“According to reports, Nigeria desires to raise about $5 billion abroad to cover part of its 2016 budget deficit. This is projected to hit N3 trillion ($15 billion) due to heavy infrastructure spending at a time when the slump in global oil prices has slashed the country’s export revenues.
I have therefore decided to appreciate Fayose's efforts towards positive dynamism on three (3) thresholds or simply put: a trinity of ignorance, economic sabotage and mockery of governance in a 21st Century. I shall, in the preceding discourse, elect to elaborate on that trinity, uno qua uno.
Ignorance:
Viewing the comic pilgrimage of Ayodele Fayose's visit to China Train Terminus in Guangzhou from prism of Foreign Policy, it will be unequivocal to state that Fayose is only making a mincemeat of himself on the international stage because he has no legal or strategic standing to write such a letter to either Chinese authorities or any foreign government with diplomatic ties to Nigeria (Nwodo, 2016). It is commonsensical to add that while any citizen can approach any embassy or government anywhere to make positions on public issues, it is not within the whims of any individual to do so on behalf of Nigeria or Nigerians who are represented by Federal Government of Nigeria in the person of the President. An whose visit to China carries the imprimatur of both arms and tiers of government, in this case, the Executive, Legislative, Judicature on the one hand, and the Federal, States and Local Governments on the other hand, respectively.
Economic Sabotage:
Rathe than focus on addressing fundamental issues that affect his state residents, the popularizer of Rashidi Adedibu's "Amala & Ewodu" political philosophy is attempting to usurp the undisputed power of the federal government at a critical time Ekiti State is functionally bankrupt with workers having to endure several months of unpaid salaries. It is therefore little wonder that during his budget presentation before Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Ayodele, armed with a sledge hammer in his right hand, proposed and passed the sum of N60billion as total projected fiscal act for 2016, when in reality that quantum sum, if handed to him as bulk, can not even solve outstanding recurrent expenditure.
Mockery of Governance:
The can be no other definition of the words: odium, opprobrium, modicum, oblivion, obscurity than the "Train Station" Address of Chinese Government in Guangzhou by the Governor of Ekiti, a comical but sad episode that has gone viral on the cyberspace since a fourth night. A governor of a parial state like Ekiti, whose citizens survive on subsistent agriculture should be strategizing on keying into the 50 Agriculture Demonstration farms from President Buhari's deal with President Xi Jinping and not a clownish attempt to sabotage the economy of Nigeria.
Submission:
In conclusion, therefore, it behoves on the Ekiti State House of Assembly to as a matter of urgent public attention, summon Fayose to explain in person, whether or not his official action in China is in tandem with the mandate of a governor of Ekiti State, if not, he should be legislatively and summarily, reprimanded in line with A.V. Dicey's "Principles of Checks and Balances".
Gurgur Japheth is a Member of the Public from Gboko
The comic rift between the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government took another dimension as the governor wrote a scathing letter to Chinese authorities urging them to halt a $2 billion trade loan to Nigeria.
In the letter dated April 12, a copy of which was made available through PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday, Mr. Fayose said the Chinese authorities should know that all Nigerians, notwithstanding their political and religious affiliations, are against any applications for new foreign loans. He said servicing current debt burden already gulps over 25 per cent of the country’s annual budget.
The Chief of Staff to the governor, Dipo Anisulowo, delivered the letter. which has the reference number EK/GOV/28/10, to the Chinese government through the country’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Gu Xiaojie, in Abuja Thursday.
An accompanying statement hinted that Mr. Fayose will personally deliver a copy of the letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of his ongoing official trip to that country.
Mr. Fayose accused Mr. Buhari of attempting to obtain the loan under false pretences because some of the projects for which federal government sought the loan were not captured in the 2016 appropriation bill.
The letter read in part: “I write as one of the major stakeholders in the project Nigeria, and a governor of one of the federating units making up Nigeria, to draw your attention to report that the Federal Government of Nigeria is on the verge of obtaining a $2 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China.
“This $2 billion loan is part of the N1.84 trillion the Federal Government of Nigeria has proposed to borrow to finance the 2016 budget, which is yet to be signed by the President, Muhammadu Buhari owing to unending controversies between the Executive and Legislative arms of government.
“According to reports, Nigeria desires to raise about $5 billion abroad to cover part of its 2016 budget deficit. This is projected to hit N3 trillion ($15 billion) due to heavy infrastructure spending at a time when the slump in global oil prices has slashed the country’s export revenues.
I have therefore decided to appreciate Fayose's efforts towards positive dynamism on three (3) thresholds or simply put: a trinity of ignorance, economic sabotage and mockery of governance in a 21st Century. I shall, in the preceding discourse, elect to elaborate on that trinity, uno qua uno.
Ignorance:
Viewing the comic pilgrimage of Ayodele Fayose's visit to China Train Terminus in Guangzhou from prism of Foreign Policy, it will be unequivocal to state that Fayose is only making a mincemeat of himself on the international stage because he has no legal or strategic standing to write such a letter to either Chinese authorities or any foreign government with diplomatic ties to Nigeria (Nwodo, 2016). It is commonsensical to add that while any citizen can approach any embassy or government anywhere to make positions on public issues, it is not within the whims of any individual to do so on behalf of Nigeria or Nigerians who are represented by Federal Government of Nigeria in the person of the President. An whose visit to China carries the imprimatur of both arms and tiers of government, in this case, the Executive, Legislative, Judicature on the one hand, and the Federal, States and Local Governments on the other hand, respectively.
Economic Sabotage:
Rathe than focus on addressing fundamental issues that affect his state residents, the popularizer of Rashidi Adedibu's "Amala & Ewodu" political philosophy is attempting to usurp the undisputed power of the federal government at a critical time Ekiti State is functionally bankrupt with workers having to endure several months of unpaid salaries. It is therefore little wonder that during his budget presentation before Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Ayodele, armed with a sledge hammer in his right hand, proposed and passed the sum of N60billion as total projected fiscal act for 2016, when in reality that quantum sum, if handed to him as bulk, can not even solve outstanding recurrent expenditure.
Mockery of Governance:
The can be no other definition of the words: odium, opprobrium, modicum, oblivion, obscurity than the "Train Station" Address of Chinese Government in Guangzhou by the Governor of Ekiti, a comical but sad episode that has gone viral on the cyberspace since a fourth night. A governor of a parial state like Ekiti, whose citizens survive on subsistent agriculture should be strategizing on keying into the 50 Agriculture Demonstration farms from President Buhari's deal with President Xi Jinping and not a clownish attempt to sabotage the economy of Nigeria.
Submission:
In conclusion, therefore, it behoves on the Ekiti State House of Assembly to as a matter of urgent public attention, summon Fayose to explain in person, whether or not his official action in China is in tandem with the mandate of a governor of Ekiti State, if not, he should be legislatively and summarily, reprimanded in line with A.V. Dicey's "Principles of Checks and Balances".
Gurgur Japheth is a Member of the Public from Gboko
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