The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday raised an alarm that there is a design by the Áll Progressives Congress (APC) to influence the judiciary in order to stop the inauguration of Ayo Fayose as governor of Ekiti State.
Fayose, who has been declared winner of the governorship election in Ekiti, is due for swearing in on the 16th of October.
PDP national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement, said it would amount to “a slap in the face of the people of Ekiti State if the inauguration of Fayose is stopped.”
He said, “In the past two weeks, we have witnessed series of lies, propaganda, threats and blackmail by the APC in their desperate bid to truncate the wish of the people. This desperate party has gone notches up in this awkward quest for power by inciting violence and outlandishly calling for the arrest of the state governor-elect.
“After losing roundly in an election widely acclaimed as one of the most credible in our recent history as a nation, the APC in its desperation for power has shamelessly designed a heinous plot to compromise certain judicial officers in order to stop the inauguration of Mr. Ayo Fayose as the democratically elected governor of Ekiti State.
Metuh said the APC is seeking to perpetuate itself in power in Ekiti through other means and warned that the PDP would resist any attempt by the party to do so.
“We are indeed taken aback that the same Governor Fayemi who was among the first Nigerians to congratulate the governor-elect, an action that earned him very wide commendation, would now allow himself to be a tool in the hands of politicians who are desperate to truncate democracy and destroy the unity of his state,” Metuh stated.
