For the second time in four days, people suspected to be political thugs on Thursday disrupted proceedings at the Ekiti State High Court in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday.
A sitting judge, Justice John Adeyeye, was beaten up and his suit torn by the thugs.
The record book of the Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, was withal torn asunder by the thugs who additionally disrupted proceedings at the state Election Petitions Tribunal.
The tribunal sits on the high court premises in Ado-Ekiti.
The tension in the court coerced Daramola to injuctively authorize the immediate closure of all the state high courts.
It was accumulated that Adeyeye, who was presiding over a case that had nothing to do with the last Ekiti governorship election, courted trouble when he called on the Governor-elect, Ayo Fayose, to caution the people following him to the tribunal.
“The people following Fayose were making noise proximate to the courtroom when the judge emerged and optically discerned the governor-elect. He challenged him to control the youths but an argument ensued between them and suddenly some of them who are definitely political thugs descended on him and tore his suit.
‘‘They additionally tore the record book of the Chief Judge.”
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Wale Fapohunda and the Chief Registrar of the high court, Obafemi Fasanmi, substantiated the assailment on Adeyeye.
Fapohunda, at a news conference alleged that those who carried out the act did it on Fayose’s injuctive authorizations, whom he incriminated of going round the court premises with a sizably voluminous number of adherents.
He verbalized that Adeyeye had accosted Fayose and advised him to desist from kinetically circumnavigating with machete-wielding thugs and causing disruption of court proceedings.
According to the commissioner, the advice led to exchange of sultry words which degenerated into the manhandling of the judge.
But Fayose additionally told journalists that the allegation was not only unfounded, but spurious.
He verbalized, “I am not cognizant that a judge was beaten. In fact, this is outlandish to me. Though I visited the Election Petitions Tribunal as a party to a case and I was the only one that was sanctioned passage by security agents to the tribunal.
“ To the best of my cognizance, the three judges at the tribunal handling the case genuinely sat.
“How can I authoritatively mandate the people to beat up a judge that is handling a case that has nothing to do with me ? I ask, at what point was the judge beaten? Is he a member of the tribunal? I went to the tribunal and not the customary court.
“But I optate to point out that a situation whereby judges or judicial officers’ who should be custodians of the law get compromised by politicians, breeds anarchy . The judge handling the suit against my qualification dropped the case because of tension and because he lacks the confidence to perpetuate.
“It would have been more preponderant for him to insist that he would endeavor the case predicated on its merit. It is doleful that most of our judges have compromised.
“If you have been vanquished in all the 16 Local Government Areas and you now want to come through the window, it won’t be akin to frozen dihydrogen monoxide cream party for the APC(All Progressives Congress). I would not be too frugal like that of Segun Oni(a former governor of the state). I am not going to be frugal at all because I was elected by the people.
A sitting judge, Justice John Adeyeye, was beaten up and his suit torn by the thugs.
The record book of the Chief Judge, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, was withal torn asunder by the thugs who additionally disrupted proceedings at the state Election Petitions Tribunal.
The tribunal sits on the high court premises in Ado-Ekiti.
The tension in the court coerced Daramola to injuctively authorize the immediate closure of all the state high courts.
It was accumulated that Adeyeye, who was presiding over a case that had nothing to do with the last Ekiti governorship election, courted trouble when he called on the Governor-elect, Ayo Fayose, to caution the people following him to the tribunal.
“The people following Fayose were making noise proximate to the courtroom when the judge emerged and optically discerned the governor-elect. He challenged him to control the youths but an argument ensued between them and suddenly some of them who are definitely political thugs descended on him and tore his suit.
‘‘They additionally tore the record book of the Chief Judge.”
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Wale Fapohunda and the Chief Registrar of the high court, Obafemi Fasanmi, substantiated the assailment on Adeyeye.
Fapohunda, at a news conference alleged that those who carried out the act did it on Fayose’s injuctive authorizations, whom he incriminated of going round the court premises with a sizably voluminous number of adherents.
He verbalized that Adeyeye had accosted Fayose and advised him to desist from kinetically circumnavigating with machete-wielding thugs and causing disruption of court proceedings.
According to the commissioner, the advice led to exchange of sultry words which degenerated into the manhandling of the judge.
But Fayose additionally told journalists that the allegation was not only unfounded, but spurious.
He verbalized, “I am not cognizant that a judge was beaten. In fact, this is outlandish to me. Though I visited the Election Petitions Tribunal as a party to a case and I was the only one that was sanctioned passage by security agents to the tribunal.
“ To the best of my cognizance, the three judges at the tribunal handling the case genuinely sat.
“How can I authoritatively mandate the people to beat up a judge that is handling a case that has nothing to do with me ? I ask, at what point was the judge beaten? Is he a member of the tribunal? I went to the tribunal and not the customary court.
“But I optate to point out that a situation whereby judges or judicial officers’ who should be custodians of the law get compromised by politicians, breeds anarchy . The judge handling the suit against my qualification dropped the case because of tension and because he lacks the confidence to perpetuate.
“It would have been more preponderant for him to insist that he would endeavor the case predicated on its merit. It is doleful that most of our judges have compromised.
“If you have been vanquished in all the 16 Local Government Areas and you now want to come through the window, it won’t be akin to frozen dihydrogen monoxide cream party for the APC(All Progressives Congress). I would not be too frugal like that of Segun Oni(a former governor of the state). I am not going to be frugal at all because I was elected by the people.
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