Buhari is at diminishing return, Bible is my power, says Fayose

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose had said Nigerians voted President Muhammadu Buhari when he was at his “diminishing return.”

The governor said this while delivering the convocation lecture of the Benson Idahosa University (BIU) in Benin on Friday.

Fayose said young Nigerians should be in government, while stating that under his watch, nobody above the age of 50 would become a council chairman while the maximum age for a councillor would be 35.

He said, “You can only give your best at your best. Our president is at diminishing return as at today. I should be quoted.

“We cannot all sleep and face one direction. Idahosa did not do these things when he was close to his grave; he did them at his prime when he had the energy to make a difference.

“How do you give laptop or I-pad to a seventy-something year’s old man? How can we continue to struggle with our sons for positions meant for them?”

“Some people chose to be under the table; they don’t want to die. They are afraid. But remember that the Bible says that those who want to gain their life will lose it and those that lose their life will gain it,” he said.

“My strength lies in God Almighty. If you put me inside running water, the water will become still. If you put me the den of lions, the teeth, the claws will go inside; you can find that in the Bible too.”

Quoting Joshua 1:6-7 and nine and 17, he said: “I draw my power from those things (Bible passages). When I wake up, I lie down in my bathroom and say, “Lord, many are the afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord God will deliver him from them all.”

Fayose advised Nigerians not to undermine his presidential ambition, saying: “I am the man to watch in this generation. So, I am controversial because I am doing things other men like me cannot do. They are scared. They are afraid; they don’t have courage.”

He also called for the review of the revenue allocation formula, stating that it was wrong for the Federal Government to pocket 52 percent of the allocation.

He said, “How will the Federal Government take 52 per cent when the problems are in the states? The Federal Government must shed its weight and allow states do the work for them.

“Federal government must take 22 per cent and states take 52 per cent.”