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Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, has called on Nigerians to “pray specially for President Mohammadu Buhari”, saying the president needs God to give him the necessary wisdom to be able to find solution to the country’s economic and security problems.

He also challenged Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, to relocate to Sambisa in Borno state, or Yobe, and move around there without heavy military security if indeed he was sure that Boko Haram had been defeated.

Speaking through Lere Olayinka, his special assistant on public communications and new media, Fayose said: “Only God’s intervention can save Nigeria from the present economic and security problems, as it is glaring that the man running the affairs of the country at the federal level does not have any answer to the problems.

“Even the Holy Bible said in James 1:5 that if anyone lacks wisdom, he should ask God and as it is, Nigerians must assist the president in asking for wisdom and understanding to tackle the country’s economic and security problems before Nigeria is further plunged into more woes with the federal government’s decision to borrow N2.2 Trillion, which translates to N6.066 billion per day, to finance the 2016 Budget.”

He described the federal government’s planned reduction of petrol pump price from N87 to N85 per litre as a continuation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government’s governance by deceit, saying: “Even secondary school students of economics know that you cannot deregulate and regulate at the same time.

“It is only in a confused and clueless economy that government will plan to spend more when revenue has reduced by more than 50 percent.

“I maintain that petrol will not sell below N100 per litre in 2016. Even now that the price is N87 and subsidy is yet to be removed, Nigerians are buying at between N130 and N300 per litre. What will now happen when they remove subsidy and allow market forces to determine the price?”

The governor described as strange, Mohammed’s claim that Boko Haram had been defeated. “Nigerians will

“Nigerians will only take the minister serious if he relocates to either Sambisa in Borno state, or Yobe state, and stay there till the end of March, next year without heavy military security,” he said.

“To show their level of confusion, two days after the minister of information declared that Boko Haram had been defeated, President Buhari said the government would persuade Boko Haram to abandon their fight. One then wonders how the same Boko Haram insurgents Lai Mohammed said were already defeated will have to be
persuaded to abandon their fight.

“Interestingly, the same Boko Haram that Lai Mohammed said had been defeated reported attacked Kimba village in Gur ward of Biu Local Government Area of Borno State yesterday night.

“Therefore, the Information Minister must show Nigerians how peaceful Borno and Yobe States have become after the defeat of Boko Haram by relocating to either Sambisa, Maiduguri or Yobe.”