Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has criticized the planned #EndBadGovernance protest against President Bola Tinubu’s administration, alleging that the organizers have ulterior motives.
During an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today program on Monday, Fayose claimed that the proposed August protest against economic hardship has political undertones.
He noted that former President Muhammadu Buhari, who was in power for eight years, faced no such hunger protests despite the country’s hardships during his tenure.
Buhari, a former military head of state from Katsina State in North-West Nigeria, served as the democratically elected President from May 2015 to May 2023, before handing over power to Tinubu, the former Lagos governor from the South-West geopolitical zone.
Fayose said, “Hunger didn’t start one day. This hunger started a long time ago. That was why they had a rally at a time and said: ‘Jonathan must go’. (President Goodluck) Jonathan left. That hunger did not stop. Buhari came. I spoke to power. Buhari spent eight years, nobody said anything. I didn’t remember any rally.
“There is no government that is 100%,” he said, adding that the economic issues confronting Nigeria were from the past administrations.
“Nigeria is a very difficult country to govern. We all know that. If a man is to spend four years, give him a mid-term.
“The little they cannot be sufficient right now for anybody to say we must bring down the government. Because there must be a motive,” the ex-governor stated.
