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On 19th of January, 2015, like all Nigerians, we members of Ekitipanupo Forum saw the advertisement placed by the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Ayodele Fayose in the Punch and Daily Sun newspapers. We are bewildered by the fact that this appalling and disgraceful advertisement emanated from our Land of Honour.
Ekitipanupo is an Indigenous Think-Tank and Intellectual Round-Table, Advocating Selfless Governance of Ekiti People, by Sincere Ekiti Indigenes, for Ekiti people. As the representative of Ekiti people home and abroad we state categorically that the advertisement spoke only the minds of the governor whose actions we cannot control, his cabinet members who worked on them and those of the newspapers that published it.
The all-inclusive preeminent Ekiti forum further declares that, like all well-meaning Nigerians, the overwhelming majority of Ekiti people are offended by these advertisement and hold the belief that the advertisement is in a bad taste.
Ekitipanupo declares that Ekiti people wish no harm to General Muhammadu Buhari or any other aspirant whatsoever. We pray to God that has blessed Nigeria with him, to spare his life, granting him all his wishes that will benefit him both in this world and in the hereafter.
We hold in high esteem, all ethnic groups of our great country, Nigeria, especially all our brothers and sisters in the North Western Nigeria, that have produced many of our past leaders that served this country gallantly, some of whom have made the ultimate sacrifices in their services to the country.
Ekiti people do appreciate these heroes and will forever remember their families in our prayers. Moreover, we belief Nigeria is a country where people of all faiths have and will live together in harmony. The good people of Ekiti State belief in peaceful co-existence of all faiths and we live by this belief and continue to enjoy peaceful collaboration between all religious groups of the state.
We call the publishers of these distasteful advertisement, the Punch and the Daily Sun, to in their next three issues, dedicate their entire Front Pages to an apology to all Nigerians.
Finally, on behalf of well-meaning Ekiti indigenes we tender an unreserved apology to all Nigerians who may have been offended by the said advertisement.
