Open letter to the good people of Ekiti State

I read in the news that some of you were deceived into staging a protest against the strong opposition voice to the current Federal Government. I have decided to write this letter to all who can listen. Ayodele Fayose is being persecuted for his opposition to the APC government. What type of democracy are we […]

I read in the news that some of you were deceived into staging a protest against the strong opposition voice to the current Federal Government. I have decided to write this letter to all who can listen. Ayodele Fayose is being persecuted for his opposition to the APC government. What type of democracy are we practicing where every opposition is clamped down? People are constantly made to believe that the current government is fighting corruption when actually political opponents are being clamped down. The same people that hoodwinked us during their campaign that there was nothing like fuel subsidy finally removed the subsidy just few months of assuming office. While the last administration used their proceeds from such increment to establish SURE-P, we are yet to see what comes out from the increment by this APC administration.
Anybody that opposes the government is linked to the arms deal. The person will remain in custody even when there are court injunctions. Every other opposition has remained silent to avoid being linked to arms deal. Who knows if I will be invited by DSS for airing my views and be charged with treasonable felony? How can our country move to another level if there is no vibrant opposition? The same opposition that brought this government in power is what the APC-led Federal Government is hell-bent on eliminating.
Good-minded should never keep quiet when issues like this are being discussed. Section 308 exonerates a sitting governor and president and  deputy/vice  from civil and criminal prosecutions but the APC-led federal government through EFCC is telling us otherwise. The only safety a leader has in Nigeria now is being in APC. Very soon Nigeria will operate a one-party system.
They promised jobs to our teeming youths during the campaign but today workers are constantly being dismissed due to harsh economic policies the present government brought in. They made us believe that the last administration was corrupt but the cost of living then was low and now that saints are in power, Nigerian citizens are gnashing their teeth.
Now, it is to whip up public sentiments so that the people of Ekiti State will hate their governor. I enjoin the people of Ekiti State to see beyond the present shenanigans. If they have anything against a sitting governor, let the court resolve it. At least I still believe in the sanctity and incorruptibility of our judicial system.
The allegedly corrupt PDP government handed Africa’s largest economy to the current, APC-led government, and now I don’t know our current ranking. All I have to tell the protesters in Ekiti State is to look beyond the shenanigans. Ekiti people, this is the time to take your destinies in your hands. Don’t be deceived into fighting your governor, who happens to be the only man standing in opposition to the federal government. If they have any charge against him, let them wait for him to finish his tenure in 2018.
John wrote in from Port Harcourt, Rivers State.