Ayo Fayose - I Warned That Nigeria Would Being Returned To 1984

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has denounced the ejection of State House Correspondent, Olalekan Adetayo, from the Presidential Villa, Abuja, depicting it as "indication of what is to originate from a domineering government that longings that the media should just reveal to Nigerians what it needs them to hear and nothing more."


The senator, who noticed that he cautioned Nigerians of the developing fascism of the President Muhammadu Buhari drove All Progressives Congress (APC) government, said; "Despite the fact that the Punch Correspondent was reviewed yesterday, inferable from open clamor, the hazardous message of narrow mindedness to flexibility of expression and of the press was passed

boisterous and clear."

In an announcement issued on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said it ought to stress all darlings of majority rules system and free press that a writer, who was just doing his occupation was subjected to embarrassing treatment of composing proclamation by the Chief Security Officer to the President, Bashir Abubakar, before he was escorted out of the Presidential Villa like a typical criminal.

He said; "When they attacked the Akwa Ibom State Government House with outfitted men of the Department of State Security (DSS), I raised caution then and I warned that Nigeria was being come back to 1984 when President Buhari ruled the nation like a most extreme ruler.

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"When I said Nigerians independent of their political gatherings ought to ascend in judgment of the President Buhari's administration developing autocracy, large portions of our companions in the media picked to keep quiet.

"Some even hailed the Department of State Security (DSS) when the administration attacked the Ekiti State House of Assembly and stole an individual from the House."

"I cautioned then that nobody will be saved when this current Buhari's developing tyranny achieved its pinnacle. I said then that when they are through with government officials, they will move to the legal and after that to the media.

"Presently the oppression has gotten to the media and it will just take intense supplications from men of the media calling for the nation not to plunge to that time of conclusion of media houses, capture and uncertain confinement of columnists."

The representative, who asked writers in the nation to ascend in one voice and ensure the vote based privileges of flexibility of expression, said; "As at today, nobody knows what number of Nigerians are moping in confinement in APC controlled states for unreservedly communicating their sentiments and the media must not ignore this encroachment on the privileges of Nigerians to opportunity of data."