We Will Come for Your Inauguration, Buhari Assures Fayemi

President Muhammadu Buhari wednesday told the former Minister of Mines and Steel, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, that he (Buhari) and members of the cabinet would grace his swearing-in ceremony as the next governor of Ekiti State in October this year.

Fayemi who is the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the forthcoming July 14 election in Ekiti State, resigned from the cabinet last week to pursue his ambition to return to the state seat of power.

At a valedictory session in his honour by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) before the take-off of its weekly meeting in the State House yesterday, Buhari and the ministers eulogised Fayemi and wished him best of luck in the forthcoming poll.

Buhari, who advocated the need to encourage the electorate to freely exercise their voting rights, expressed hope that Fayemi would wrest power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State for the APC, assuring him that they would be in Ado Ekiti when taking the oath of office.

The president, who said it would take him sometime to fill the vacant seat Fayemi left behind, advocated the need for voter education, saying with the existence of the permanent voter card (PVC), voters could freely exercise their voting rights, recalling how the advent of PVC helped him to win the 2015 elections.

“I hope you will get Ekiti State back for the party. The only time I saw the INEC chair was to insist that voters’ education should be emphasised so that ordinary Nigerians will believe that Nigeria is beginning to respect them and that their PVC is their status. And then, couple with the card readers, God willing, we are here with the help of technology.