Group of cabal exercising powers of president - Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state
has said it was becoming obvious that a
group of cabal is exercising the powers
of the president in Muhammadu
Buhari's government
Fayose in a statement issued on
Thursday, April 20, by his special
assistant on public communications and
new media, Lere Olayinka, questioned
whether or not Buhari was now
governing the country by proxy
following the president’s absence from
state functions, especially the weekly
Federal Executive Council (FEC)
meetings, The Punch reports.
He said: “Every day, what we hear is
president said this, president said that
without seeing the president in any
official function and one is prompted to
ask; where is the president?”
Fayose has asked whether president was now
governing the country by proxy.
Speaking on the suspension of SGF
Babachir Lawal, he said: “I saw the
Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal on
television responding to his suspension
and what came to my mind was that
there could actually be many presidents
operating in the Buhari’s presidency."
According to him there is confusion in
Buhari’s government because of a
possible existence of governments
within the government, Daily Trust
reports.
Fayose said: “Perhaps, it is for this
reason of possible existence of
governments within the government of
Buhari that confusion pervades the
polity, with the President himself writing
letter to the Senate to clear someone of
wrongdoing and the same person being
suspended three months after on the
basis of the same allegation. It is also for
this reason that the President nominated
Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for
confirmation as EFCC Chairman and the
DSS, an agency under the Presidency
wrote the Senate not to confirm him.

“Most importantly, the President did not
attend the FEC meeting last week and the
meeting did not hold this week under the
flimsy excuse that Easter Break stalled
it. How could Easter Break that ended on
Monday be responsible for the inability
to hold FEC meeting on Wednesday?
Definitely, there is more to this than
meets the eye.
“It has therefore become necessary that
Nigerians hear the voice of their
President and see him physically, not
through surrogates or the cabal
operating behind the scene,” the
governor said.
It was learnt that Fayose described a
president as the face and image of a
nation and urged President Buhari to
hold regular media chat in which
Nigerians can ask questions and offer
suggestions on the running of the
country.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu
Buhari approved the constitution of the
board of solid minerals development
fund on Thursday, April 20, in Abuja.
A statement by the ministry of mines
and steel development said Mr Buhari
charged the seven-member board to
carry out its duties diligently, The News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
The board is chaired by Uba Malami
from Nasarawa state, a geologist and
former vice-president of the Abuja
chambers of commerce