Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has rejected the reported order issued by an Oyo State High Court concerning the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention.
He dismissed the ruling as insignificant and unworthy of compliance, describing it as “an Ibadan judicial and political comedy staged by a hand-to-mouth judge.”
Fayose added that even the least informed person in Nigeria would understand that a State High Court lacks the authority to function as an appellate court over a Federal High Court.
In a statement he signed, Fayose said “the judge only granted an ineffective order that is dead on arrival order. It is an order no one, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can obey.”
He called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to as a matter of urgency sanction Justice A.L. Akintola, who gave the exparte order, despite being aware of the October 31, 2025 judgement of Justice James Omotosho on the same matter.
The former governor alleged “hand-to mouth judges” are bad eggs that must be flushed out of the judiciary.
He described the order as another show of desperation by those who have become the undertakers, waiting at the graveside to give the PDP a final burial, asking, “How do you go to a State High Court to get an exparte order asking INEC to monitor a national convention on which a Federal High Court ruled five days ago that it should not monitor?”
