Fayose incurably rude, desperate to rubbish Aisha Buhari, presidency says

The Presidency has described Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State as being incurably rude, saying he is obsessed with insulting people and desiring to grab headlines.

This is as the presidency dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by the governor to link President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, to US Congressman William Jefferson’s bribery scandal for which the American lawmaker was convicted in 2009.

Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a press statement, said the presidency would not have taken Fayose serious as he was a man “childishly obsessed with the desire to grab the headlines and insulting people at will because of his incurably boorish instincts.”

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He said the presidency will only respond this time in order to put the record straight as ignoring Mr. Fayose may mean giving traction and credibility to outright and brazen falsehoods.

According to Mr. Shehu, Aisha had no direct, indirect or the remotest connection with William Jefferson’s corruption scandal in the United States.

Shehu then challenged Fayose to prove to Nigerians if the so-called Aisha whose pictures he shared was the same Aisha married to Buhari, or had any relationship by blood or any relationship in whatever form with President Buhari’s wife.

While he called on him to produce evidence from the records of investigation and subsequent trial of Jefferson to prove that Mr. Buhari’s wife Aisha was in anyway linked to that scandal, he called on him to show proof when and where Aisha Buhari was invited for interrogation in connection with Congressman William Jefferson’s bribery scandal.

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