For the third time in a row, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has petitioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), asking him to review June 21, 2014 governorship election and prosecute suspects in the alleged ‘criminal’ manipulation of the electoral process that returned the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ayodele Fayose, as the governor of the state.
In a swift response, Governor Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Idowu Adelusi, said such effort is a futile exercise because the AGF has no such power to review the election, adding: “The Ekiti State APC Chairman, Jide Awe, demanding such review is an illiterate and a comedian playing to the gallery with propaganda.
“The issue concerning the governorship election is a concluded matter which can never be revisited. The issue raised by Awe is an election matter conducted under stipulated time under the law because it is time bound.
“All parties have exhausted their rights at the tribunal, Appeal Court and the Supreme Court under the law.”
Meanwhile, embattled Secretary of the PDP in Ekiti State, Dr. Tope Aluko, has made moves to quash the Warrant of Arrest issued against him by a Chief Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti last week.
The PDP scribe had dropped a bombshell in Abuja, a couple of weeks ago when he alleged that the June 21, 2014 governorship poll in Ekiti, in which Ayodele Fayose emerged governor was rigged by the PDP in collaboration with the military.
Consequently, the state government accused him of perjury and went ahead to file same case against him at the Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti.
Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye, on February 3, granted an order, compelling the police to arrest Aluko to face perjury charges of having recanted his statement made on oath during the trial of the election of Governor Fayose at the Election Petition Tribunal, where he served as a principal witness to the PDP in a case instituted by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Challenging the legitimacy of the arrest warrant, Aluko, in a motion on Notice number MAD/1ocm/ 2016, filed at the Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court on February 10, sought an order vacating and or setting aside the warrant.
The motion was supported by two-paragraph affidavit deposed to by Ayodeji Daramola.
The defendant (Aluko) predicated his plea on following grounds: that the court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the application and that the application of the complainant is defective and incompetent, that the application was a flagrant abuse of court process and that there is no prima facie case of perjury against him before the order was handed down.
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