We'll resist Fayose's attempt to ridicule Fayemi – APC chieftain
Fayose had on Monday constituted a judicial panel, led by a former acting Chief Judge of the state, Justice Silas Oyewole, to probe Fayemi's administration between October 2010 to October 2014 over alleged financial misappropriation.
In a statement in Ado Ekiti, Faparusi said the
judicial panel set up by the governor to try his predecessor was a "predetermined and well-orchestrated
attempt to ridicule" President Muhammadu Buhari as well smearing the personality
of Dr Kayode Fayemi.
Faparusi, who warned against the timing and
consequences of the probe panel, said Fayose's action was also another way to
distract the APC, especially now that political parties are getting prepared
for the 2018 governorship election in the state.
“What have Fayose and assembly being doing for the
past three years before waking from their deep slumber to know that Fayemi must
be probed? Fayose is gradually turning
Ekiti into a huge laboratory where all sorts of political experiments, shoddy
ones for that matter were being carried out."
On the governor’s intention to seek redress in
court over possible extension of his tenure beyond 2018 on account of his
impeachment in 2006, Faparusi said such could only exist in the wildest
imagination of a "theatric like Fayose, who sees governance as a comic
relief, rather than a serious business."
Faparusi clarified that the Supreme Court in case
of Muritala Nyako Vs FG ruled that a governor whose tenure was abruptly
terminated via illegal impeachment can only be entitled to the perks of office
throughout the time there was a vacancy and not tenure elongation.
He said further: “The governor should have known
that he cannot be entitled to third term in office, neither can the oath of
office be administered on him three times. What former Governor Nyako wanted to
achieve was to finish the remaining nine months of his second term tenure
before he was ousted and the Supreme Court was so unequivocal that since that
dispensation had lapsed, he could only be entitled to the benefits and that has
become a functus officio as far as this case is concerned.
“Governor Fayose should refrain from wasting the
precious time of the court by wanting to engage
in mere academic exercise that has no legal fecundity, having been
earlier determined by the apex court."
Daily Trust
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