Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said that his wife stopped him from lambasting late former President Muhammadu Buhari at his death.

Former President Muhammadu Buhari died in July 2025 at a private clinic in London and was buried in his hometown of Daura, Katsina State.

Appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Fayose noted that Nigerians hardly talk badly about the dead.

“The people in Nigeria only praise the dead. When President Buhari died, I wanted to come out and abuse him (but) my wife called me not to say so,” he said.

Fayose believes that no matter what some people are saying about the late former president, he did not perform up to acceptable standards during his eight-year tenure.

“Would you say Buhari performed? I’m not among those praising the dead. Don’t honour me when I die. When I die, I’m gone.”

Fayose said that Nigeria was a mess under Buhari, wondering why people now heap the blame on the administration of Bola Tinubu.

The former Ekiti governor said that, unlike Buhari, Tinubu is accessible.

“He [Tinubu] is accessible. Was the former president accessible?

“A lot of things were happening in those days but do you still find them in the system? He is not a perfect man but we are not where we were.”