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Politics of Monday, 13 January 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Government has a right to silence losers of the 2019 Elections- Keyamo

Minister of State, Labour & Employment, Festus Keyamo Minister of State, Labour & Employment, Festus Keyamo

Minister of State, Labour & Employment, Festus Keyamo has reaffirmed the government's right to silence the sore losers of the 2019 elections.

The Minister made this statement today on his twitter page.

Keyamo noted that President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has no reason to silence those already silenced by the outcome of the last two general elections.

However, he stated that the Government reserved the rights to silence wailers and sore losers determined to bring Buhari's regime to ruin.

Keyamo words: "There are butterflies amongst us who think they’re birds. They shouted themselves hoarse against us during elections, yet the voters didn’t listen & nobody ‘silenced’ them. Is it after their ‘threat’ during elections is over that anyone would be interested in silencing them?

"This President has NO REASON to silence those already silenced by the roaring voices of 15m voters in the last 2 general elections. These tiny bad losers are rather the ones who want to silence the voices of those 15 million citizens & govt has a responsibility to prevent that.

"The comedians among these butterflies are those who drag in the name of govt into their private predicaments to whip up public sympathy. How would govt turn the public against someone who didn’t have the public behind him in the first place? What is there to turn against him?"

The Minister's words are believed to jab at Aisha Yesufu, the Human Rights activist and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, who kept dragging Kaduna State Govenor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai on twitter last night till this morning. As well as several other opposing voices.