PDP accuses Ekiti Chief Judge of bias

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has accused the State Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, of supporting the All Progressives Congress in its attempt to stall the inauguration of the Governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose.

The PDP accused the Chief Judge of deliberately amplifying what happened in the State High Court, Ado-Ekiti last week Monday and Thursday, by blaming it on Fayose.

Justice Daramola in a September 26 petition addressed to the National Judicial Council accused Fayose and the police of complicity in the attack on judges and court workers in the state.



He accused the Governor-elect of leading a large number of thugs who disrupted court proceedings, beat up judges and court workers, and also tore court records.

In a statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Kola Oluwawole, on Wednesday, the PDP said, “The Chief Judge must face the truth and stop being bias in the interest of the sanctity of the judiciary.”
It accused the CJ of shutting down courts in the state to achieve a pre-determined political agenda.
The party maintained that a through probe of the Ekiti judicial crisis should be carried out with a view to bringing those found culpable to book.

Oluwawole, who said fracas during court proceedings was not new in Nigeria, especially in political cases, cited instances of the Election Tribunal sittings in Ondo State that was disrupted on March 18, 2013, when supporters of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria and Labour Party clashed in which four persons were severely injured.

He recalled that on January 23, 2012, supporters of PDP and ACN clashed at the premises of the governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Lokoja, Kogi State, with one person shot and three others injured.