Ekiti PDP alleges bias in suit against Fayose

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has raised concerns on how the suit filed against the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, is being handled.

The party, in a petition to the Ekiti State Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, said it could not understand why the CJ re-assigned the case to the Justice Segun Ogunyemi, who had voluntarily withdrawn from it over the alleged attack on him .

In the petition signed by the PDP state chairman, Idowu Faleye, and addressed to Daramola, the PDP noted that, going by the manner the matter was previously handled by Ogunyemi, the governor and the PDP, who are defendants in the case, would not get justice.

The petition read in part, “We are surprised, however, that the same judge, Hon. Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi, had resumed sitting over the same case he had voluntarily withdrawn from.

“When we probed why the same judge, whose action caused unmitigated crisis in the state prior to the swearing in of the new governor of the state and a party in the case, we were informed that the National Judicial Commission directed him to resume sitting over the case. However, our investigation at the NJC proved to the contrary. Our source at the NJC asked a rhetorical question of when the NJC has become the assigning judge of cases pending before a state high court.”

Source: dailyindependent