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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