Gov. Fayose tells US ambassador that he stands by his widely condemned Buhari advert

Worried about the kind of sensational rhetoric ongoing in the system and the risk of violence in the forthcoming election, the US Consul-General in Lagos, Jeffrey Hawkins, led other American diplomats to Ekiti state where they met with the state governor, Ayo Fayose.

Fayose spoke about his controversial advert on The Punch and Sun newspapers in which he placed a photo of APC candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, alongside former Nigerian leaders from the North who died in office, raising questions about Buhari’s health. He said that he stood by the content of the controversial advert but insisted that it represented his personal vies and not that of his party, the PDP.

He said that the advert was neither a death wish nor laced with sinister motives. According to him, he only wanted to prevent a recurrence of constitutional crisis, which the sudden demise of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had created in the country, when the national assemblt had to resort to a doctrine of necessity.

He, however, reiterated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 14 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan, will win the election convincingly.

Fayose said the state witnessed a peaceful poll last year during the governorship election, expressing confidence that the standard this time around would not be lower.