Gov. Ayodele Peter Fayose of Ekiti State has cried out to Nigerians over a secret plot against him: “Certain APC chieftains were again making subterranean moves to manipulate and compromise a section of the Judiciary, particularly some judges, to get through the back door, what they failed severally to achieve through the ballot box as well as in open court, even in matters already decided by the Supreme Court.”

“At a recent meeting held in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, in which several stalwarts and chieftains of the APC were in attendance, including two former governors of the state, Oni and Fayemi, now a minister, as well as members of the party, boasted that there is no going back on the latest plans to subvert the will of the people of Ekiti freely given; wrest governance of Ekiti from me, at all cost, before the expiration of my tenure in October 2018 through an orchestrated but dubious legal process; and thereby, render nugatory, the sacred mandate of the people given unto me openly and unequivocally when I won in all the 16 local governments of the state while the then incumbent governor, Fayemi recorded zero.”

“This time, plotters of this judicial coup-de-tat plan to procure the services of a compromised or malleable judge to get self-serving ‘jankara’ and kangaroo judgment with the intention of having the Supreme Court reverse itself on the June 2014 Ekiti election.”

“Oni and Fayemi boastfully claimed that they have enlisted the assurances of Justice Abang and one or two other judges in the concocted fresh suit, hinged on a report not known to the Electoral Act.”

“My Lord, you have a duty to ensure that no judge under your watch is enlisted into this diabolical act by any rampaging anti-democratic elements.

“I am a leading opposition figure in Nigeria, today,” someone who has been critical of the Federal Government and its anti-democratic actions that endanger our renascent democracy. Democracy, without virile opposition, will eventually turn into a dictatorship.”