In a statement personally signed by the President, he reflected on Fayose’s first tenure as Governor of Ekiti, expressing that the administration was troubled and truncated due to the abuse of presidential powers.
The statement reads, “It gives me great pleasure to celebrate Osoko himself on his 65th birthday anniversary, November 15.
“Since the emergence of former Governor Ayo Fayose on the national political horizon as the second elected Governor of Ekiti State in 2003, during which I was serving my second term as Governor of Lagos State, he has remained a significant political figure not only in his state but also in Nigeria.
“While his first tenure as Governor of Ekiti was troubled and truncated towards the end of his first term, due to the abuse of presidential powers, his courage never waned. He bore the pains with uncommon strength. He embraced adversity with equanimity.”
It added, “In one of the great political comebacks of our time, he was re-elected governor of his state in 2014, setting the record as the first person to defeat two incumbent governors in Nigeria.
