Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, has caution the State Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, not to align with the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to frustrate its efforts at legally seeking redress over Fayemi’s plan to create new local governments in the state.
The Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday said the refusal of Justice Daramola to assign the case it filed against the governor and others over the proposed councils to a judge two weeks after the matter was filed calls for concerns.
The PDP said it had it on good authority that Justice Daramola had been pressurised by state officials to ensure a delay tactic was employed to frustrate the case.
The party also faulted Fayemi for trying to pit the PDP against the people of the state.
“The outgoing governor is only playing politics of vengeance and bad ‘belle’. After being roundly beaten in the poll, when the people of the state rejected him and his party, Fayemi feels he can be clever by half. He has missed it.
It would be recalled that the PDP is seeking the following reliefs: A declaration that it is an exercise in futility for the first defendant to embark on the creation of local governments or LCDAs at the twilight of his tenure, being a process that cannot be completed before the expiration of his tenure but meant to cause confusion for the incoming government.
“A declaration that any local government or LCDA created by Governor Fayemi in contravention of the 1999 Constitution as amended is null, void and of no effect”.
The PDP is also seeking a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from embarking on further process towards the creation of additional councils.