Outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose on Friday said he has been vindicated about his 2015 warning that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the capacity to govern the country.

He stated this in Ado Ekiti when the former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso met with the state delegates to ask for their support for his presidential ambition.

According to Fayose, when he made the warning, Kwankwaso was one of the people who reacted angrily against him. “But thank God, today, you have seen reason and you are now born again.

” I told Nigerians in 2015 when Buhari was campaigning that he lacked capacity. His subordinates have always handle governance whenever he heads a place. You said what is this Fayose saying but today, you are a great convert.”

Fayose said that Buhari was a wrong choice for the All Progressives Congress (APC). “He is a black market.”

He said that the APC leaders including former Governor of Lagos state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu don’t love Buhari adding that, they all went into exile during his regime.

He urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pick the best candidate so that Nigerians could have a choice in 2019.

“We must approach this battle with as a united body. This is a wake-up call for all the aspirants. We want a man in whom our future and the future of the country is guaranteed. ”

On his presidential ambition, the governor said that he dropped the ambition because of the alleged stolen of the mandate freely given to his deputy, Prof Kolapo Olusola by the people.

•Excerpted from a Saturday Sun report