It’s Unspeakable Due To His EFCC Case, Orji-Kalu Is Doing Image Laundering For Buhari – Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has lambasted former Abia State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who he accused of doing image laundering for President Muhammadu Buhari due to case of corruption preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Mr. Fayose emphatically told the former Abia governor that he is not welcomed in the state, advising him to take his advocacy for peace to other parts of the country where security of lives and properties of Nigerians are under threat.

The Ekiti governor made this clear in a statement released on Saturday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.

He lambasted Mr. Kalu that it was unspeakable that because of his EFCC case, Orji-Kalu saddled himself with the task of doing image laundering for a president whose government was inflicting sufferings on Nigerians.

The governor also urged traditional rulers in the state to ignore the former Abia State governor.

The statement read, “It is an insult on the collective sensibilities of Ekiti people, whose only benefit from the government of President Buhari is hardship occasioned by the government’s cluelessness for anyone to hide under advocacy for peace to canvass support for the President.

“If he has sold his own conscience to the agenda of selling an already rejected product to Nigerians, we in Ekiti State have not, and we are telling him categorically that such advocacy is not welcomed in our State.

“He should rather take his peace and unity advocacy to his own state, where he is already rejected and other states where Nigerians are being killed on a daily basis by armed bandits.

“It is also ridiculous that instead of joining Nigerians to tell the president the truth about the state of affairs in the country, Kalu is castigating Nigerians that have summoned courage to speak out against the president through letters and public comments.”

Kalu had embarked on a tour of the South West to advocate for peace, fairness and unity of the country, aimed mainly at rallying support for the President Buhari’s second term bid in 2019.