The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has
faulted the state governor, Ayo Fayose over his
recent “attack” on Nigerian judges.
Fayose had at the opening ceremony of the Nigeria
Legal Year organised by the Ekiti State Branch of
the Nigeria Bar Association in Ado Ekiti reportedly
accused judges of corruption.
According to him, some of them were in the habit of
begging to be appointed as election tribunals’
chairmen in order to extort money from politicians.
Reacting to Fayose’s statement, APC said the
governor’s attack represented “a paradoxical assault
by a man who holds the judiciary in contempt even
though he is also the greatest beneficiary of the
same purportedly corrupt judiciary in his political
career.”
The Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in
a statement on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti that it was an
irony that Fayose, “who is a beneficiary of lawless
and anti-democratic conduct and a principal
participant in the ignoble plot to spit on the Nigerian
Constitution and who should be cooling his heels in
jail” should be the one accusing the judiciary of
corruption.
“It is regrettable that Fayose is always having his
jokes on the judiciary that decent Nigerian leaders
built to serve as a sacred sanctuary of justice, but
which Fayose has turned to a lap dog that he can
whip at his pleasure.
“He invaded the court with his thugs to beat a judge
black and blue, tore his coat and invaded the Chief
Judge’s office, broke the door and tore court records
there while the Chief Judge’s secretary was
mercilessly beaten.
“He created various obstacles to slow down his
prosecution in the N1.3b poultry project fraud trial
by the EFCC and orchestrated closure of the courts
for a long time to prevent hearing on his perjury
case to pervert the course of justice. But we wish to
remind Fayose that these various assaults on the
judiciary are worse than corruption,” Olatunbosun
explained.
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