The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has reacted to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s attack of human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) over his statements on the alleged fraud in the election that saw Fayose return to power in Ekiti state.
Fayose had accused Falana of double standards and lacking in integrity after noting that the lawyer supported his election after the result was released on June 22, 2014 but has now turned around to fault the same election.
The APC, in a statement released by its Publicity secretary in the state, Taiwo Olatunbosun, asked Fayose to keep quiet and desist from insulting Nigerians in his defence of the fraudulent acts that won him the election.
The party accused the governor of misusing his immunity to escape justice noting that in a sane society, Fayose would have resigned by now.
The party also defended Falana, stating that the lawyer had enough evidence now to change his position about the legitimacy of the election owing to the confessions of the PDP State Secretary, Tope Aluko on live TV and the audio revelation contained in the Ekitigate materials.
The party further lambasted Fayose for calling Falana’s integrity to question stating that the lawyer is a pride of the Ekiti people owing to his integrity, scholarship and his fight for the cause of justice.
Olatunbosun said: “Fayose is jittery and that is why he is stoking violence. He has started attacking individuals in Ekiti State like he did during his first aborted tenure in 2006.
“We want to remind Fayose that many of his party leaders, who still have a modicum of integrity, have also left PDP in droves because they could not stand the shame he has brought upon them through the Ekitigate scandal planned and executed by him and some of his cohorts. Therefore, Falana cannot be an exception.
“Fayose is being haunted by his criminal past and there is no way he will not meet his comeuppance no matter how he tries to evade justice.
“Through his past and present deeds, decent people of the world have since discovered that Fayose is a threat to democracy and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, law and order in the society and everyone knows that there is no way he can operate in a society where the law works.”
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