Stop Attacking Obasanjo, Buhari, Ekiti Elders' Chief Cautions Fayose

A chieftain of the Ekiti Council of Elders, Dr. Bayo Orire, has criticized Governor Ayo Fayose's claim that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is suffering from health challenges which might hamper his capacity to function as President if elected.

Fayose had alleged during last Tuesday’s presidential campaign rally of President Goodluck Jonathan in Ado-Ekiti that Buhari looked sickly and was deliberately planted as opposition presidential candidate to re-enact the crisis that trailed the uncertainty of the health status of the late former President Umaru Yar’Adua.

But Orire, who is a medical doctor, lampooned Fayose for making what he called "unguarded clinical assumption" against Buhari’s health advising the governor to face the task of governance and convincing the electorate in Ekiti of the worth of the candidate paraded by his party.

The former Chairman of Ekiti State Hospitals Management Board who spoke with reporters on Sunday berated the governor for his unrelenting attacks on the person of former President Olusegun Obasanjo advising the Ekiti chief executive to settle any issue with the retired general amicably rather than attacks on the soap box.

He argued that "a well-cultured Yoruba man does not abuse elders recklessly" saying it is only a politician that is bereft of ideas that will leave issues and be attacking personalities.

Orire, who is also the Publicity Secretary of the APC Elders' Forum in the state said Nigerians are tired of the PDP stranglehold on power for 16 years at the centre and are determined to use the opportunity of next month’s general elections to effect a change.