The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused some Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of plotting to compromise a section of the judiciary to impeach him.

In a letter addressed to the Chief Judge of Nigeria, CJN, Walter Onnoghen, the fury governor claimed that two former governors of the state, Segun Oni and Dr. Kayode Fayemi were behind the plot.

Fayose urged the judiciary not to succumb to the alleged devious plots to undermine its independence and integrity.

According to Fayose, “The essence of all of these is to silence him as
the voice of opposition in the country because he has bluntly rejected all overtures to him to defect into the ruling APC or stop talking.

“Certain APC chieftains were again making subterranean moves to
manipulate and compromise a section of the Judiciary, particularly some judges, to get through the back door what they failed severally to achieve through the ballot box as well as in open court, even in matters already decided by the Supreme Court.

“At a recent meeting held in Ado-Ekiti, the State capital, at
which several stalwarts and chieftains of the All Progressives
Congress were in attendance, two former governors of the State and
members of the APC, namely Engr. Segun Oni and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, now a Federal Minister, boasted that there is no going back on the latest plans to subvert the will of the people of Ekiti freely given; wrest the governance of Ekiti from me at all costs before the expiration of my tenure in October 2018 through orchestrated but dubious legal process; and thereby render nugatory the sacred mandate of the people
given unto me openly and unequivocally when I won in all the 16 local governments of the state while the then incumbent Governor, Kayode Fayemi recorded zero.”

Fayose accused the Presidency of complexity in the fresh plot with Oni and Fayemi as their local arrow heads.

The governor claimed that a fresh suit is being rehashed and to be filed against him on the same old allegation that have been trashed all the way from the Tribunal to the Supreme Court.

He said, “This time, the plotters of this judicial coup-de-tat plan to procure the services of a compromised or malleable
judge to get self-serving ‘jankara’ and kangaroo judgment with the
intention of having the Supreme Court reverse itself on the June 2014 Ekiti election.

“Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi boastfully claimed that they have
enlisted the assurances of Justice Okon Abang and one or two other
judges in the concocted fresh suit, hinged on the report of a useless,
senseless, and orchestrated Military report not known to the Electoral law.”

The governor appealed to Onnoghen to take “notice of judicial pronouncements by courts of concurrent jurisdiction as well as the scathing remarks of appellate courts on how the said Justice Okon Abang has been used in the past by anti-democratic forces to endanger democracy and engage in deleterious miscarriage of justice.

“My Lord, you have a duty to ensure that no Judge under your watch is
enlisted into this diabolical act by any rampaging anti-democratic
elements.

“The embarrassing incidents currently playing out on our National
Judicial horizon, with several judicial officers, including serving
Justices of the Supreme Court, enmeshed in simulated and orchestrated
corruption scandals and indictments by agencies of the Federal
Government because they had refused, at one time or the other, to
serve the base interests of the ruling APC government in matters
pending before their Lordships, have kept us wondering whether the
Judiciary will succumb to these unwarranted harassments and
intimidation meant to coerce and cower it into submission and make
this very important and indispensable Third Estate of the Realm
subservient to the arbitrary wishes, whims, and caprices of the
Executive and political desperados,” he said.