Seriously I have nothing personal against Buhari – Fayose

                    Following the buffet of criticisms trailing his death wish for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has said he has nothing personal against the former head of state.
                    The governor, who spoke on Thursday through a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said he is not wishing Buhari dead as widely believed in many quarters, but maintained that the APC presidential flag bearer is too old to govern a complex country like Nigeria.
                      Fayose explained that he is opposed to the emergence of Buhari as president because Nigerians do not deserve a leader that will govern by proxy.

The Ekiti governor said his experience as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ad hoc committee which shopped for a suitable presidential candidate for the party in the run-up to the 2007 presidential election informed his opposition to Buhari’s candidature.
He revealed that his committee did not recommend the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua, whom he said initially rejected the offer before he (Yar’Adua) was allegedly opposed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Fayose said the criticisms trailing his mode of campaign for the re-election of the PDP candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, are unnecessary, accusing the APC leaders promoting Buhari’s candidature as insincere.
                The governor, who said he owed nobody any apology for exposing the hypocrisy of APC leaders, accused them of placing personal interests far above national interests.
He alleged that‎ the APC had not only packaged lies and tried to foist such on Nigerians, but had compromised the Independent National Electoral Commission to rig the elections if it had held on February 14.
Going down the memory lane on how the late Yar’Adua was preferred by Obasanjo, Fayose said he does not want the events that took place in the PDP presidential primary in December 2006 to be re-enacted in 2015.
Fayose said: “I remember then as the ad hoc chairman of the PDP committee that shopped for the presidential candidate to replace former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a crop of suitable, brilliant, healthy and competent northern politicians‎ in the PDP were shortlisted by me for Obasanjo to pick from, but he overruled the list and asked me to contact the late Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua because he preferred him.
“In fairness to the late president, he objected to the offer on health ground, but Obasanjo insisted that he must be the president."