Ekiti asks Supreme Court to reject Oni’s appeal

The Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti State has urged the Supreme Court not to entertain the appeal filed by the ousted Governor Segun Oni seeking to unseat Governor Kayode Fayemi.
In a statement on Saturday by Director of Media and Publicity Chief Tai Oguntayo, the party stated that Oni’s recourse to the Supreme Court was an exercise in futility since the Court of Appeal has the final say in the governorship election petitions as at October 15, 2010 when the matter was decided in favour of Fayemi.
Oni, whose application for the review of October 15, 2010 judgment, removing him from office was dismissed by the Court of Appeal in Ado-Ekiti had on Tuesday filed an appeal at the apex court.
The ousted governor is asking the court to set aside the judgment which removed him from office and praying the court to hear Fayemi’s case afresh.
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the disputed election had accused the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, who headed the appeal panel which removed him from office of bias.
The party said Oni’s suit at the apex court had revealed his “pernicious intent to railroad the Nigerian judiciary into a perilous voyage of self-destruct driven to its ludicrous apogee”.
The ACN maintained that hearing the case filed by the ex-governor would amount to extending the circus show which he started at the Court of Appeal to the hallowed chambers of the Supreme Court.
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