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Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to resign if he truly loves the country.

Addressing reporters in Lagos on Tuesday, Fayose said the president has not been able to effectively discharge his constitutional duties because he is ill.

He said being an “avowed corruption fighter”, Buhari is now under moral burden to save Nigeria from “needless stagnation” arising from his heath challenges.

The governor said fighting corruption was not limited to ‎discovering large sums of money “here and there”, but doing the right thing at the right time.

Appraising the two years of the Buhari administration, Fayose said the All Progressives Congress (APC) government had failed to deliver on its promises.

“So far, the APC-led federal government has been a government of misadventure and Nigerians are worse for it,” he said.

“They say they are fighting corruption but are shielding corrupt elements within their fold. Members of the opposition defect to the APC for protection‎. Fighting corruption is more than discovering huge sums of money all over the place, with nobody being traced to be the owners, moral corruption too is bad.

‎”He can do us the great help by resigning. Not resigning bothers on his integrity.‎ His absence allows others to suppress and oppress others and that means he is allowing others ‎ to suppress their fellow human beings.‎ There are many governments in one and they are clueless.‎ We need an active president going by our numerous challenges. ‎

‎”How long will Nigerians wait for an incapacitated president‎?We cannot wait again for somebody to hold us to ransom.‎ I don’t have any bad blood against Buhari; Osinbajo has no powers without the president. He owes us the duty to tell us the state ‎of his health.”

Fayose, who said the economy had gone from bad to worse, alleged that the middle class had been wiped off.‎

‎”There is no middle class anymore ‎.Economic indicators are not cherry at last. They borrow money on daily basis and committing funds that ought to accrue to all tiers of government to servicing the loans,” he added.‎‎