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APC seeks Fayose’s trial by rights commission, ICC

By Muyiwa Adeyemi (Head South West Bureau Ado Ekiti)
24 April 2015   |   4:49 am
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has urged the National Human Rights‎ Commission and International Criminal Court in Hague, Holland, to prosecute Governor Ayodele Fayose over inciting broadcast that threatened the peace of the state in the last few days.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has urged the National Human Rights‎ Commission and International Criminal Court in Hague, Holland, to prosecute Governor Ayodele Fayose over inciting broadcast that threatened the peace of the state in the last few days.

Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said this became imperative in the face of one death recorded in Efon Alaaye and near collapse of peace after the governor made a live broadcast on the state radio and television urging his supporters into an act of rage and violence‎ to attack the 19 APC lawmakers and prevent them from performing their constitutional duties.

“Governor Fayose few weeks ago mobilised his supporters to confront the APC lawmakers who were coming to perform their legal duties in Ekiti State. He had earlier urged his supporters to defend his election with last the drop of their blood.

“In obedience to‎ his order, his supporters in Efon stormed the security check-point and engaged the security agents who they perceived as paving the way for the APC lawmakers to enter the state. In the ensuing gunfire, Modupe Olaiya was shot dead.

“In response, Fayose rented a woman to pose as the mother of the deceased to claim that an APC lawmaker ‎shot Modupe dead. Few days later, the real mother of the deceased showed up, raising the alarm in the media that the impersonator was a woman leader of Fayose’s party (PDP). She accused the impersonator of taking government’s inducement to implicate an innocent man,” Olatubosun explained.

He added that on Sunday, the governor made another broadcast urging his supporters to violent resistance to ‎prevent the lawmakers from sitting on his impeachment proceeding over sundry constitutional breaches.

“As if this was not enough crime against peaceful atmosphere for the civil society, the governor raised his cronies in the transport unions in flagrant violation of the Nigerian law to make a public announcement on the state media as if the unions are government organs or agencies to threaten the peace of the state,” Olatubosun said

Meanwhile, a group, Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has hailed the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, over her admonition of judges handling Election Petition cases against being manipulated by politicians.

Justice Bulkachuwa had warned them to be impartial, independent and should not be subject to political influence or manipulation, saying that each tribunal judge or staff member will be closely monitored by her office and she will not hesitate to descend on anyone found wanting in the discharge of his/her duties.

EJG in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by its National Coordinator, Mr Gbenga Babawibe, also hailed the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Mahmud Mohammed who had equally last Tuesday assured that under his leadership, the judiciary would not be used to change the outcome of elections.

EJG claimed that it had it on good authority that APC leaders and members in the state were already allegedly boasting that the judges coming would do the biddings of the party.

“It is therefore become necessary that we alert the President Court of

Appeal on the need to give more attention to the activities of the

Election Tribunal in Ekiti State, with a view to making sure that the

judges and tribunal staff are not used to truncate the mandates of the
people.”

The statement added: “No doubt, this assurance, coming from the number one and two judicial officers in Nigeria is heart-warming.

“However, utterances and body language of leaders and members of the APC in and outside Ekiti State since the party won the presidential election cannot be wished away.

“Boastfully, APC members and supporters in and outside Ekiti State now go about saying that the party will secure favourable judgments from the Election Tribunal which will remove from office, some of the elected National and State House

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