EKIT GUBER: APC advises those who want Fayemi disqualified

Those seeking for the disqualification of former Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, as a governorship candidate in the July 14, 2018 election in the state have been advised to drop the idea by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The APC described such move as an exercise in futility and called on the proponents to concentrate on the coming election and not waste their time dissipating energy on a matter that had long been settled by the Supreme Court.

The All People’s Party (APP) had filed a lawsuit praying the court to disqualify Fayemi, who is APC candidate for the governorship election. It claimed that he was indicted by the Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by Governor Ayodele Fayose to probe his administration.

Fayemi had challenged his indictment in court, arguing that the Governor Fayose’s panel was partisan adding that its members were the governor’s appointees whom he exercises authority over.

While he called on the court to sack the submission of the panel, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, had also said that Fayose’s action amounted to an accuser also acting as a judge in his own case.

In its response to APP’s suit that Fayemi should be disqualified based on the panel indictment, Ekiti APC publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, described as a wasteful move the suit at a lower court seeking to upturn the ruling of the Supreme Court in similar cases that had been settled as precedents in election qualification dispute.

Accusing the APP of being pushed by “unseen hands” Olatunbosun said that “It will amount to futility to file this matter before a lower court after the Supreme Court had ruled in similar cases involving former Vice President Atiku Abubakar versus INEC and former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State versus Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso when the highest court in the land ruled that no White Paper or indictment by any tribunal or commission, except the courts, can bar Nigerians from contesting election.

“But we have since discovered that the common enemy of Ekiti people is behind the sponsorship of the litigation to cause distraction for our party’s candidate, Dr Fayemi, who is poised to win the July 14 election.

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“We will not be troubled by this needless distraction because our party, with its development blue print that will be sold across the state, is determined to win the July 14 election so that Ekiti State can be on her feet again for the challenges of rebuilding the state that has been bastardised by Governor Fayose in the last three and half years.”

The Ekiti APC chairman, who fingered Fayose as the mastermind of the lawsuit, added, “Fayose has been trying all tricks to ensure that APC fails to win the July 14 election but he will fail in all.

 

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