Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has said he only fears God and not human beings, including President Muhammadu Buhari.
The governor said God, whose counsel or pronouncement that cannot be altered by man, is the one he fears, and nobody else.
Amosun spoke at this year’s edition of the state’s Christmas Carol and Service of Nine Lessons at Kuto, Abeokuta, the state capital.
The governor was apparently alluding to a report which quoted him to have said: “I only fear God and Buhari.”
He was reported to have made the comments while addressing leaders and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at a stakeholders’ meeting last Friday at the party’s secretariat in Abeokuta.
But clarifying the statement, Amosun said he feared only God and not President Buhari.
He added: “You know this is our time as politician, a time when politicians will call black, blue. Yesterday, I held a meeting with our people and the way I started was that I was brought up to fear God but only for me to see in the paper this morning that ‘Amosun says he fears God and Buhari’.
“No, it is only God I fear, the One Who is Alive, the Only One Who will say kunfayakun (Be and it will be!). No one can change (it). It is the only God that I fear.
“Of course, I respect President Buhari, I love him and he loves me too. But I know him he fears God because he is from God. He doesn’t beg for respect; he commands and earns it. So it is only God that I fear.”