Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of recording telephone conversations of Nigerians perceived as critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
He stated the DSS edits the conversations and leaks same to SaharaReporters, which he alleged had now end up the legitimate propaganda platform of the federal government.
Governor Fayose, who said he turned into no longer troubled by means of “the brand new sinister antic of the federal authorities”, delivered that: “in place of sitting down and be tracking peoples’ telephones, the federal authorities ought to provide food for Nigerians and shop the lives of those that are being
killed in Southern Kaduna and different locations.”
The governor said this in response to his cellphone conversation with Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike, which changed into posted with the aid of Sahara.Reporters.
Talking thru his special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he stated: “If the President and his hatchet men in the DSS, EFCC and other federal authorities businesses do now not recognise what to do aside from to file telephone conversations in their perceived political foes, they must just resign and shop the united states from this harrowing enjoy.”
He said it turned into obvious that “they’re being threatened through the complimentary comments of tremendous Nigerians like Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi and others about him due to the fact the ones comments negate the cabal’s evil intentions.”
The governor defined the leaked smartphone communique as the height of the political rascality, manipulation, oppression, suppression and irresponsibility with the aid of dealers of the federal government, “who try so tough to cover up the crimes they perpetrate in opposition to the people of Rivers country.”
“They ought to even move past taping of my lines and come to stay with me in Ekiti government residence that will do consistent with seconds stay recordings of anything I say due to the fact in the 12 months 2017, by using the grace of God, i’m able to nonetheless say greater without apology,” he said.
Governor Fayose said for the primary time for the reason that democracy again to the u . S . A . In 1999, Nigerians were celebrating Christmas and new yr
with hunger and sufferings beyond measure.
“Nigerians are inquiring for meals on their tables, they want employments, they want safety, now not recording of humans’s cellphone conversations and handing it to a street facet online platform to post.
“Unemployment and task loss are increasing at a completely alarming charge while the electoral method is each day being bastardised.
“in preference to tackling hunger and the u . S . A .’s monetary woes, they have embarked on diversionary methods with irrelevant testimonies of Governors Wike and Fayose’s smartphone conversations, governors who do now not undergo fingers and haven’t any manipulate over any protection apparatus,” the governor said.
He stated: “I knew it earlier than now that phone conversations of prominent Nigerians, especially countrywide meeting individuals and opposition figures are being monitored, but i have remained
unperturbed in my remedy to play my roles in rescuing Nigeria from the jaws of tyranny, which the existing APC federal government represents.”
while keeping that the APC led federal authorities do not appreciate the laws of the united states, Governor Fayose stated: “They know that what they are doing is unlawful and clear contravention of segment 37 of the 1999 charter of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which provides that ‘The privacy of residents, their houses, correspondence, cellphone conversations and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed and guarded.’
“however, due to the fact they are criminally minded and are jogging a tyrannical government, using the DSS, EFCC and other organizations, one isn’t surprised on the current development.”
He encourage Nigerians no longer to keep silent inside the face of this tyranny, announcing; “it’ll get to everybody sooner or later, some day.”
He said: “Like I stated before, their style has come to be so predictable.
Whenever Nigerians cry of the pains and sufferings they may be going via, they’ll come with flimsy memories like ’20 Chibok girls discovered,’ ‘$1 billion discovered in Mr A, B or C bedroom,’ ‘Boko Haram technically defeated,’ ‘we have captured Sambisa forest,’ ‘Governors Wike and Fayose’s cellphone conversations leaked,’ and so forth just to divert interest.
“unluckily, Governors Wike and Fayose that bear no arm remain their headache even as their dealers that undergo fingers like guns, armoured tanks and fighter jets and many others, the usage of them in opposition to Nigerians have no longer been called to impeach.
“Going through the barrage of pains being inflicted on Nigerians by using his cluelessness, if i’m able to deliver the President a candid propose, i’m able to inform him to surrender due to the fact he has failed Nigerians, whose votes he received by deception. Below his watch, dollar is now N500 to $1, their is exceptional starvation inside the land, Nigerians are being killed in Southern Kaduna and other places,
“it’s far better for the President to resign because he appears no longer to have ability for positivity.
“If all the presidents that dominated before Buhari had behaved like he’s behaving now, he himself might be in prison.
“but, let me say it once more, i’m one individual who is not fearful of dying or incarceration. I can keep telling Nigerians the fact, which manifestly hurts Buhari and the cabal around him.”
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