Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has dismissed the order reportedly granted by an Oyo State High Court for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national convention.
Fayose described it as an inconsequential order, that no law understanding institution can obey, saying, “It is an Ibadan judicial and political awada kerikeri of a hand-to-mouth-judge.”
He said even the most unintelligent human being in Nigeria will know that a State High Court cannot act as an Appellate Court over the Federal High Court.
In a statement he signed, Fayose said “the judge only granted an ineffective order that is dead on arrival order. It is an order no one, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can obey.”
He called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to as a matter of urgency sanction Justice A.L. Akintola, who gave the exparte order, despite being aware of the October 31, 2025 judgement of Justice James Omotosho on the same matter.
The former governor alleged “hand-to mouth judges” are bad eggs that must be flushed out of the judiciary.
He described the order as another show of desperation by those who have become the undertakers, waiting at the graveside to give the PDP a final burial, asking, “How do you go to a State High Court to get an exparte order asking INEC to monitor a national convention on which a Federal High Court ruled five days ago that it should not monitor?”
