The Ekiti State Governor-elect, Mr Ayo Fayose, has asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the allegation leveled against him that he beat up a judge.
He wants the NJC, legal officers and Nigerians to look at all issues at stake dispassionately and be guided by the truth while urging them not be swayed by the propaganda of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
Fayose who spoke through the former Ekiti Commissioner of Justice, Mr Owoseni Ajayi in Abuja, said the allegation being leveled against him was part of a grand plan by the APC to cause crisis in the state with a view to preventing the inauguration of the new governor on October 16.
“What his Excellency, Mr. Ayo Fayose, is saying is that the NJC should launch a thorough probe of the happenings in Ekiti State judiciary and through that, the rot in the system will be exposed.
“A lot of things are happening there and there are signs that some judicial officers are conniving with the outgoing governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and the APC.
“The current crisis is an agenda of the APC and its sole aim is to get through the back door what the people of the state did not give the party on June 21 when they voted overwhelmingly for Fayose and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“Fayose did not and cannot slap a judge, he cannot slap a house boy, let alone, a High Court judge. He has utmost respect for judicial officers. The media propaganda that he beat up a judge is an APC agenda to portray him in bad light having failed to take his mandate through the back door.
“Up until now, nobody has been able to provide photo or video evidence that Fayose slapped the judge. And the APC people should know that Fayose will not succumb to blackmail and surrender the mandate freely given to him by the people of the state,” he said.
Ajayi noted that PDP leaders were aware of the various petitions written to the NJC by APC leaders in Ekiti, saying investigation would reveal the truth.
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