Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has disclosed that his wife intervened to prevent him from publicly criticising the late former President Muhammadu Buhari following his death earlier this month.
Speaking on Politics Today, a current affairs programme aired on Channels Television on Friday, Fayose recounted how he intended to express negative opinions about Buhari but was restrained by his wife’s advice.
“When President Buhari died, I wanted to come out and abuse him,” Fayose said. “But my wife called me not to say so.”
Buhari, who led Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, died on July 13 in a UK hospital and was buried two days later at his residence in Daura, Katsina State.
Fayose, a longtime critic of the late president, reiterated his belief that Buhari’s tenure failed to deliver on expectations.
“Would you say Buhari performed? I’m not among those praising the dead,” he stated. “Don’t honour me when I die. When I die, I’m gone.”
Contrasting Buhari’s leadership with that of his successor, President Bola Tinubu, Fayose described the current president as more approachable and transparent.
“He is accessible. Was the former president accessible? A lot of things were happening in those days, but do you still find them in the system? He is not a perfect man, but we are not where we were,” he added.
Defending Tinubu’s administration, Fayose said Nigeria’s problems were too deep-rooted to be fixed quickly.
“Nigeria is a sick country; it will take heaven to pull it out at once,” he said. “What miracle can anybody do in two years? The situation is critical, wide and deep. Tinubu inherited a very bad economy.”
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