Senator Iroegbu in Abuja

It has emerged that the alleged plan by the federal government to impose a foreign travel ban on Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State might not be unconnected to his criticism of President Muhammad Buhari.

An intelligence source disclosed to THISDAY wednesday that apart from the numerous verbal attacks against the president and the All Progressives Congress (APC), the government at the centre did not take kindly to Fayose’s utterances during a recent visit to China.

According to the source, the presidency was embarrassed when the outspoken governor from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asked the Chinese government not to honour the recent loan deal signed by the two sovereign governments.

Even before his utterances in China, said the source, the presidency was uncomfortable with other statements by the governor but was hampered by constitutional constraints to invite him for questioning.

“The federal government was both alarmed and embarrassed when Fayose went to China to oppose the loan deal,” said the security source, who disclosed that since then the governor had been placed under watch, including his planned foreign trips.

Fayose on Tuesday opened a lead on the issue and challenged the federal government to carry out the alleged plot preventing him from travelling out of the country, saying: “Under the federal system of government, state governors are not appendages of the president and as a leading opposition figure in Nigeria, he cannot be cowed by President Muhammadu Buhari and his agents.”

Fayose was said to have reacted to reports that two governors, one from the South-west and another from the South-south, had been placed on travel restrictions on Buhari’s orders, insisting at a press conference by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, that “whenever he wished to travel out of Nigeria, he will do so in the full glare of the public”.

“I am not surprised or disappointed by this latest plot of the Buhari administration because the president that we know is a man without any atom of respect for the rights of Nigerians as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and this he demonstrated as a military dictator and is now demonstrating it as a democratically elected president,” Fayose said in the statement.

Security sources also revealed that the second governor placed under watch and the alleged travel restriction is Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for slightly different reasons.

Wike, who had been engaged in a power struggle with his immediate predecessor and current Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, is being watched over the security situation in Rivers State in particular and the Niger Delta in general.

“The second governor is Wike. The possible reason for the planned action revolves around Fayose’s utterances against the president and the likelihood of making the same utterances abroad like he did in China.

“Secondly, is the suspicion against Wike with respect to the ongoing crisis in Niger Delta and the risk of what he might do outside the shores of the country,” the intelligence source said.

However, the source disclosed that there was a consensus that since Fayose had raised the alarm, the federal government might not be able to impose a travel ban in order to also avoid a backlash from human rights groups and the international community.

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http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/02/fayose-wike-allegedly-under-security-watch-over-utterances/

I pray they don't set the country on fire with their mouth.

Was Borno Governor, Amaechi, El_fyai etc under any security watch during Jonathan's Tenure because of their utterances? Once a tyrant always a tyrant.

Fayose, the greatest politician in Uganda greater than oju iku, the Eze 1 of gburugburu kingdom, fire on.

The man Fayose shows unmistakeable signs of fear induced dementia. The greatest Hero of the Lost Children of Uganda should make haste to fix whatever problems he has upstairs because in less than three years time, he'd be needing all the intelligence he can summon to ward off prosecutors at the supreme court.

I remember the book

“HEART OF A PATRIOT”






Continues laughing

Ride on Fayose, the sane people in the society are with you all the time.

Fayose should be under medical watch not security watch.

He has a mental problem and needs help.

I've once said it.Nigeria media is the worst in the whole world.They know that Nigerians are gullible people and they can believe everything they read.Lest I forget,wasn't THIS day that reported that Jona was on exile?Hmmm.#runcomot

fayose got my love, unlike the lily-livered bunch of idiots we have as our governors in the so-called S.E

I thought dey say Freedom of speech is guaranteed...abi na Uganda we dey?...Freedom after speech is no more guaranteed!!!!!

This is exactly what we can call...."Freedom of speech is guaranteed but freedom after speech speech is what I can't guarantee "



However, Ameachi too was lose in utterances during GEJ regime and nothing happened to him during and after.