Fayose charges Buhari on dialogue with Niger Delta militants

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to dialogue with the militants, especially the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) with a view to halting hostilities in the oil-rich region and averting the imminent collapse of the nation’s economy following weeks of attacks on oil installations in the area.
He contended that the President’s failure to attend the kick-off of the Ogoni clean-project yesterday after earlier threats from the NDA, amounted to surrendering to the “superior powers of the militants.”
According to a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor said it was ‘embarrassing’ that Buhari backed out of the exercise after assuring on a number of occasions that he was going to lead from the front.
Fayose, who wondered why the President was not always interested in visiting states in contrast to his alleged penchant for overseas trips, added that it was time he stopped acting like a ‘foreign president.’