Ekiti Election Tribunal: Fayemi Hires 35 Lawyers For Defence

Dr. Kayode Fayemi

The Governor-Elect of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has recorded his guard to the request of by the hopeful of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Professor Kolapo Olusola Eleka. 

In the 2,558-page safeguard with more than 3,000 records as displays, Dr. Fayemi asserted that he won the gubernatorial race of July 14, 2018 and asked the council to reject the request of Prof. Eleka for ailing in justify. 

Dr Kayode Fayemi and Prof. Olusola had requested that the council announce him victor of the race, having surveyed the most astounding number of legitimate votes in the race. 

The PDP Candidate blamed the APC for utilizing the government may to gag resistance , while additionally denouncing the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) of distorting results to support Fayemi. 

The group of legal counselors furnished with 3,500 displays and 1,009 witnesses were directed to the council by three Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Hakeem AfoIabi (SAN), Yomi Aliyu (SAN) and Dr. Kayode Olatoke (SAN). 

Tending to the press in the wake of documenting the appeal, Dr. Kayode Olatoke (SAN), who talked for the benefit of his associates, said Eleka's appeal to was an exercise in futility as it needed substance and was certain that the case would be expelled by the council. 

He clarified assist that Fayemi won reasonable and square in 12 out of the 16 neighborhood governments territories of the state, while Eleka won in four. 

In his reaction to Eleka's request of verging on charged over voting in some surveying units, Olatoke rejected this claim as silly and unmerited. 

He said Eleka's first ground in his appeal to depends on Fayose's ghost prosecution, which had been invalidated and put aside by a skillful court, Olatoke said. 

Other senior legal counselors in the group speaking to Dr Fayemi and the APC are: Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), Dr. Kayode Olatoke,(SAN ), Hakeem Afolabi (SAN), John Baiyeshea (SAN), Chief Akin Olujimi (SAN), Jelili Owonikoko (SAN), Yomi Aliyu (SAN) and Segun Ajibola (SAN). No date has been settled for hearing.