The All Progressives Congress has lambasted the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose for daring to attack eminent lawyer, Femi Falana.
Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has blasted the Governor Ayodele Fayose and told him that his criminal past was haunting him. The party also said Fayose is a threat to the Nigerian Constitution and orderly society.
The statement came after the governor attacked fiery lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) over his position on the alleged election fraud that returned him (Fayose) to power.
The party said the eminent lawyer was right by asserting that Fayose is liable to prosecution in the light of the new revelations linking his victory to alleged electoral fraud through illegal militarisation and illegal printing of sensitive INEC materials through which he won the election.
Falana noted that all the evidence pointed to the fact that Fayose used criminal means to ascend to the position of governor and should be made to face the full weight of the law. Falana also said that the secretly recorded audio tape by Captain Sagir Koli, including revelations contained in the confessions by PDP State Secretary, Dr Tope Aluko made Fayose guilty.
The statement by the APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun read in part: “Fayose is jittery and that is why he is stoking violence. He has started attacking individuals in Ekiti State like he did during his first aborted tenure in 2006.
“We want to remind Fayose that many of his party leaders, who still have a modicum of integrity, have also left PDP in droves because they could not stand the shame he has brought upon them through the Ekitigate scandal planned and executed by him and some of his cohorts. Therefore, Falana cannot be an exception.
“Fayose is being haunted by his criminal past and there is no way he will not meet his comeuppance no matter how he tries to evade justice.
“Through his past and present deeds, decent people of the world have since discovered that Fayose is a threat to democracy and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, law and order in the society and everyone knows that there is no way he can operate in a society where the law works.”