THE All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has criticized an alleged attack on the judiciary by the State Governor, Ayodele Fayose.

The party noted that the alleged 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”.

Fayose had early in the week accused the judiciary of corruption, saying some of judges were in the habit of begging to be appointed as election tribunals’ chairmen in order to extort money from politicians.

The governor spoke at the opening of the Nigeria Legal Year organised by the Ekiti State Branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) in Ado-Ekiti.

The party also expressed support for raising a Board of Inquiry (BOI) by the Nigerian Army to investigate the roles of its men during the June 21, 2014 elections, which saw Fayose’s emergence as Ekiti State governor.

He said the initiative would reveal the travesty of justice championed by the Nigerian Army in cahoots with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP’s) leaders to commit treason in the illegal change of political leadership in Ekiti State.

The Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said “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”

The party noted that a probe of Ekiti election scandal would reveal the roles of the military officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army in the 2014 contentious governorship election.
“Nigerians and indeed the international community are interested in how other dramatis personae whose voices were heard in the audio tape secretly recorded by and Army Intelligence Officer, Captain Sagir Koli, will be made to account for their roles in their unlawful and criminal, anti-democratic conducts.

We want the Army and Federal Government to pursue this matter to a logical conclusion to make sure that never again shall criminals posing as national leaders and other political locusts ravage our democracy as was done on June 21, 2014,” Olatubosun concluded.