The Chief Williams Ajayi-led Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of plotting to use the Ado Ekiti Division of the Court of Appeal to arrest a pending judgment at the Ado-Ekiti Division of the Federal High Court.
The Federal High Court in Ado-Ekiti has reserved judgment in the dispute over the Ekiti State PDP Executive for January 23, 2017
The PDP State Publicity Secretary, Dayo Owolabi, in a statement on Wednesday said by his conduct Fayose wanted to plunge the judiciary into another round of crisis.
The party wondered why an appeal was filed against a judgment that had yet to be delivered, hearing notices issued the same day the matter was filed and the matter fixed for hearing the next day.
The Ekiti PDP said it was further disturbed by “the boastings of Governor Fayose that he had reached out to the justices of the Court of Appeal so as to get them to arrest the yet-to-be delivered judgment of the lower court.
“It is in the light of the above that we wish to appeal to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami; the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen; the Honourable President of the Court of Appeal, the Hon. Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa and other well-meaning Nigerians to urgently intervene and stop the judicial ambush being planned by Fayose and the Presiding Judge of the Ekiti Division of the Court of Appeal.”
The party said it would be preposterous if this, “broad day light judicial corruption is not nipped in the bud at a time the anti-corruption campaign of the current administration is gaining traction, even in the judiciary”.
