Fayose Hails Governor Ishaku’s Victory As Mama Taraba Loses At Supreme Court

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has hailed the Supreme Court judgment which affirmed the election of Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State.

Mr. Fayose said he was happy the country’s apex court had restored the confidence of Nigerians in the judiciary and explained that politicians who believed they could circumvent the electoral verdict of the people of
Taraba State were put to shame.

Governor Fayose, who described the judgment as “justice properly served” reminded Nigerians of his predictions published on December 22, 2015 in which he said categorically that Governor Ishaku will be victorious at the Appeal Court and Supreme Court.

According to his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose cautioned functionaries of the
ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), especially the National
Chairman, Chief Odigie Oyegun over their disparaging comments against
the judiciary as a result of the party’s failure to unseat the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) governors of Rivers and Akwa Ibom States.

He called on the judiciary to further establish its independence, saying; “The only body that can save democracy and sustain the rights of Nigerians in the face of tyranny is the judiciary and our judges must stand firm now so that those who truncated democracy in Nigeria
through military coup will not return the country to dictatorship
under democratic governance.”

The governor said labelling the judiciary as corrupt because of
Supreme Court judgments on the dispute over the governorship elections in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Abia, Delta, Ebonyi and other states that PDP won was the height of hypocrisy by the APC, adding that the same way the Supreme Court dismissed the use of card readers on the cases won by PDP governors was the way the court dismissed card readers in the cases won by APC governors.

While congratulating Governor Ishaku, Governor Fayose urged him to “remain with the people of Taraba State and never get bothered by the antics of those whose only interest is to circumvent the verdict of
the people.”