Fayose is a political blackmailer- APC

                               

The Ekiti State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the State Governor, Ayodele Fayose as a notorious “blackmailer, electoral robber, political harlot and a pathological liar.”

The party made the remark while reacting to Fayose’s claim that some Chieftains of the APC were plotting to compromise a section of the judiciary to remove him from office.

In a letter to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, Fayose urged the CJN to resist the move and preserve Nigeria’s democracy.

But reacting to Fayose’s allegation, APC said the governor was afraid of his own shadow as a “lawless misfit in the position of authority who has no respect for the supreme law of the country after his serial rapes of the constitution but who is now jittery and as a result, has resorted to blackmail” .

In a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, APC dismissed the allegation, describing it as the “ranting of a notorious blackmailer, electoral robber, political harlot and a pathological liar”.

The party dismissed claim by Fayose that its Chieftains, who were former governors of the state, Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi met and boasted of the governor’s removal.

Olatunbosun stated that the governor was only jittery and afraid of the consequences of his many infractions on the law.

The statement reads, “Fayemi and Oni are too decent and busy in their assignments to engage in such frivolous boasts that Fayose is accusing them of. Their track records as democrats and ‘Omoluabi’ is there for all to see as opposed to Fayose’s hit-and-run and ‘bolekaja’ reputation.

“The same Segun Oni he went to visit at his country home with funfare recently is the same man Fayose is now accusing of plotting to remove him from office, which shows clearly that he is confused and suffering from hysteria.

“Fayemi and Oni would rather busy themselves with the development of Ekiti instead of making Fayose, who has caused much embarrassment to himself and Ekiti people, their topic.

“Fayose is on a familiar terrain to save his head with such a pre-emptive blackmail as usual even though he knows the details of the crimes he had committed and has continued to commit against the nation.

“He believes he is the wisest Nigerian who thinks he can cunningly manipulate people’s reasoning and cheat the law to get away with his crimes, otherwise how can Fayose indulge in that disingenuous allegation that he is being haunted for refusing to join APC when the truth is that APC leaders have been frustrating his pleas to join the party to save his head.

“A man who invaded the court to beat a judge and assault court officials with thugs to stop judgment delivery on his perjury case has suddenly realised that the judiciary must not be compromised.

“The guilty is afraid of the consequences of his many crimes against the Nigerian state and we wonder whether he is the one to tell the Supreme Court on what to do.

“Why is Fayose jittery if he actually won the election? What will be the role of Mr Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court on the matter that only the Supreme Court can decide?

“Though no case has been filed before the Supreme Court, if a party feels aggrieved in Ekiti State election matter and decides to urge the Supreme Court to have a second look at the matter after the revelations in Capt Sagir Koli’s audio tape, military reports and confessions by PDP principal leaders who participated in the poll crime, there is no amount of blackmail of the judiciary that will stop such aggrieved party from approaching the court to seek redress no matter how long.

“It is the practice of criminals all over the world to always cry wolf when the long arms of the law is about to catch up with them after their serial criminal activities against the state and denial of the citizens of their legitimate rights.