PHOTO EXTRA: At last, Buhari and Fayose shake hands

Can you remember the last time President Muhammadu Buhari and Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, shook hands? Neither can we. Maybe because they have managed to avoid each other since 2015.

It has finally happened. On Thursday, Fayose attended the council of state meeting with Buhari presiding. And — this is no fiction — they shook hands! No tete-a-tete, no toothy smiles. Nothing extra-ordinary. But they shook hands.

Fayose can be described as the No. 1 critic of Buhari. He has been doing to Buhari what Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, used to do to President Goodluck Jonathan. Attack. Attack. Attack.

However, Fayose took his own to another dimension when he placed adverts in the newspapers ahead of the 2015 presidential election suggesting that Buhari would die in no time. And he followed up by saying Buhari was on life support when the president went on medical vacation in 2017.

Buhari has never replied him openly. But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has done a lot, perhaps on Buhari’s behalf, in trying to cut Fayose to size, arresting Ekiti government officials and probing the state’s finances.

For all it is worth, many think Fayose is playing a very good role as most opposition politicians are too afraid to criticise Buhari before they are arrested by the EFCC.

Meanwhile, here are some interesting pictures from the council of state meeting.