Nigerians are suffering, Buhari must stop needless foreign trips –Fayose

Nigerians are suffering, Buhari must stop needless foreign trips –Fayose

— 2nd April 2016

BY WOLE BALOGUN, ADO EKITI

EKITI State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has called on well-meaning Nigeri­ans to prevail on President Mohammadu Buhari to stop his needless foreign trips, describing the president’s trip to the United States of America on Wednesday for the 4th Nuclear Security Summit, while Nigerians are suffering at home as, “joke of the year.”

The governor said, “it re­mains a mystery what Presi­dent Buhari that met power generation at 6,000MW and could not manage it such that power generation crumbled to 0MW yester­day, will contribute to the Nuclear Energy Summit in America.”

Speaking through his Special Assistant on Pub­lic Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said, “it is shameful that while Presi­dent Buhari was far away in the United States of Ameri­ca, attending a summit that does not have any bearing on Nigeria and its people, an unprecedented happened – power generation stopped completely for over three hours!”

He said the sufferings of Nigerians deserved the at­tention of the president in­stead of junketing around the world, wasting the country’s scarce foreign ex­change.

The governor alleged that over $50 million must have been spent on the president’s frequent foreign trips, adding that Nigerians should ask President Bu­hari whether his trip to the United States of America to attend Nuclear Energy Summit will bring the lin­gering fuel scarcity being experienced in the country to an end.