Former Ekiti governor, Kayode Fayemi, has described his successor, incumbent governor Ayo Fayose, as a desperate man who is fighting for his life.

According to Fayemi, the desperation of the Ekiti governor surpasses that of President Goodluck Jonathan, adding that the former knows that his sins would return to haunt him, hence his divisive comments and verbal persecution of the All Progressives Congress and its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

Fayemi made the comments during a recent interview with The Punch, while reacting to the alleged audio recording implicating some politicians and military men of being complicit in the governorship election of Ekiti in June 2014.

In his words: “We are taking all the appropriate constitutional steps to ensure that this does not go unpunished. There are soldiers willing and ready at the appropriate time to testify in court beyond Koli.”

“You can understand why Mr. Fayose is doing what he is doing, including the lies about Gen. Buhari. He knows that the minute this election takes place, and a genuine winner emerges, he is as good as history. That is why he is doing what he is doing. He is a desperate man; he is even more desperate than Jonathan. He is fighting for his life. He is one of the apostles of interim government.”

“I should let you know that. He believes that all his atrocities will come back to haunt him. The judges they have beaten up who cannot talk now, the civil servants they have harassed, the solders, even Gen. Momoh should be pitied because he is a victim, he wants promotion. It takes a very tough person to resist the kind of filthy lucre that these people offer.”

It has been a dramatic week even by Fayose’s standards. He has called for the sacking of Independent National Electoral Commission chairman, Attahiru Jega, an idea that his Peoples Democratic Party has distanced itself from.