APC wants to use court to stop me- Fayose

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, has accused the state government of planning to use the judiciary to truncate his ambition. Fayose, addressing journalists through the Legal Adviser of the Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation (AFCO), Mr Kolapo Adekola, said the state government had gone to court “with frivolous allegations to distract” him and prevent him from contesting the election. According to him, the PDP had it on good authority that personalities sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) had filed three suits in the state high court with alleged intention to embarrass Fayose and frustrate his ambition. He said part of the plot to stop Fayose from contesting the election was a petition written by the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Wale Fapohunda, to the Kogi State judiciary, seeking the transfer of a case involving
one Charles Ovie on the kidnap of the Attah of Ayede, Oba Joseph Orisagbemi and the late provost of the College of Education, Ikere- Ekiti, Dr Gabriel Olowoyo, in 2009, to Ekiti State for fresh prosecution. Kolapo said that another chieftain of the party and former chairman of the caretaker committee of Ekiti West Local Government Area, Mr Tajudeen Akingbolu, had filed a suit in an Ado-Ekiti high court, seeking N10 million as compensation for allegedly being denied free movement while Fayose campaigned in Igede-Ekiti; that the campaign train created a traffic bottleneck.