Chairman of Lagos Airport Hotel, a subsidiary of the O’dua Group of Companies, Prince Peter Oyeleye Fasua, has hit back at those he described as “fifth columnists” and “some power-drunk northern politicians,” blaming them for orchestrated attempts to undermine Vice President Kashim Shettima and destabilise President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Reacting to the controversial statement by a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation(SGF), Babachir Lawal, who called Shettima a “flat spare tyre” and advised him to resign, Fasua said the comment was not only reckless but an extension of a larger northern political agenda to retain power at all costs.
According to Fasua, the current agitation from the North stems from an unhealthy obsession with political power.
“A few elements from the North are power drunk and power drunkards. What exactly is their problem? Power left them less than two years ago, and they are already dying for it again?”, he queried.
Fasua noted that past presidents like Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who was terminally ill, and Muhammadu Buhari, who spent months abroad on medical treatment, had genuine reasons to hand over power temporarily.
