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The governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose on
Monday said he has uncovered plots by the former
Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi backed by the
ruling All Progressives Congress to manipulate the
Nigerian judiciary to remove him as the governor of
Ekiti State.
“They have concluded plans to go to court to reverse
my election,” Fayose said at a press conference at
the Ekiti State’s capital Ado-Ekiti on Monday.
The governor, however, said he believed the
judiciary would not lend itself to the alleged plans to
oust him.
“I am sure we have noblemen at the Supreme Court
who would not allow the image to be smeared.
Nigeria is bigger than all of us. The APC-led federal
government cannot win all and every state.”
Fayose was elected the governor of the southwestern
state on June 21, 2014, defeating the then incumbent,
Kayode Fayemi, whom he is now accusing of
mounting pressure on the Supreme Court to unseat
him.
After losing his re-election, Fayemi was quick to
accept defeat and he congratulated his opponent.
“If indeed this is the will of the Ekiti People, I stand
in deference to your will, Fayemi said in a statement
on June 22, 2014. “If the result of the elections is an
expression of the voice of our people, we must all
heed your voice.”
But Fayemi’s party rejected the election result and
approached Ekiti State Election Petition Tribunal to
seek redress, hinging its petition on the fact that
Fayose should not have allowed to stand for the
election since he was impeached in his first tenure
as the state governor. The tribunal, however,
dismissed party’s petition on December 19, 2014, for
lacking merit.
APC suffered further losses at the Court of Appeal on
February 16, 2015, and two months later at the
Supreme Court.
But the allegations Fayemi, Nigeria’s current
minister of solid minerals were unfounded his
media aide said.
Yinka Oyebode said he was unaware his boss had
approached the Supreme Court to reverse a
judgement that validated Fayose’s election as the
governor of Ekiti State. He blamed Fayose’s ‘wild
imagination’ for the “unsubstantiated allegations”
and noted that his boss had no words for the
governor.
“The minister is a serious minded person and we
did not consider it appropriate to dignify Fayose
with any response,” said Yinka Oyebode.

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