Name Looters Sponsoring IPOB Or Shut Up —Fayose Knocks Lai Mohammed

The Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has dared the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to name those “treasury looters” that he alleged were sponsoring the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). 

Governor Fayose said this while speaking to newsmen shortly after inspecting the ongoing construction of the first ever overhead bridge in Ado-Ekiti the state capital.

Governor said “it is high time Nigerians begin to hold the Information Minister accountable for his frivolous claims.”

Fayose said the Information Minister was fast assuming the position of the “Liar-General” of the federation, having lied to gain power and still lying to sustain it.

He pointed out that “more than 20 months after he claimed that 55 Nigerians stole over N1.34 trillion from the country’s treasury from 2006 to 2013, Lai Mohammed is yet to tell Nigerians who the 55 people are.”

In a statement issued on Tuesday, by the Governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, he described Lai Mohammed as “an embodiment of contradictions, who speaks from several sides of his mouth”.

He said Lai Mohammed is turning himself to a vegetable while struggling to defend a government that has done more evil than good to Nigeria and its people.”

The governor called on Nigerians to prevail on the Information Minister to name the treasury looters sponsoring IPOB and provide proof of the sponsorship as well as the 55 people that he said stole over N1.34.

Governor Fayose said; “In the history of his lying career, if he (Lai Mohammed) is able to read through his past comments and juxtapose them with his present comments, he will realize the contradiction that he has become.

“On June 10, 2013, Lai Mohammed spoke against the proscription of Boko Haram, saying that it stifled the press and tampered with the fundamental human rights of Nigerians. 

“He also spoke in support of true federalism and restructuring of Nigeria. 

“But today, in defense of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, everything Lai Mohammed supported then, he is now against and what he was against then, he now supports.

“It is shameful that Lai Mohammed now runs speedily to defend the lion king and his autocratic government, so that he won’t be devoured and in the process of trying to avoid being sacked, he is manufacturing lies like pure water.

On the faceoff between the military and IPOB in the southeast, the Ekiti Governor advised the Federal Government to embrace dialogue rather than use force.

Governor Fayose, however, called on the international community, especially the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to investigate the heinous crime committed by the military against Nigerians in the southeast.

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