Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has criticised and dismissed the reported order granted by an Oyo State High Court concerning the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention, describing it as “inconsequential and unenforceable.”
Fayose, in a strongly worded statement released on Tuesday, said no law-abiding institution could comply with what he called “an Ibadan judicial and political awada kerikeri (comedy)” issued by a “hand-to-mouth judge.”
The former governor argued that even “the most unintelligent human being in Nigeria” would know that a State High Court lacks the jurisdiction to act as an appellate court over the decision of a Federal High Court.
“The judge only granted an ineffective order that is dead on arrival. It is an order no one, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), can obey,” Fayose declared.
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He urged the National Judicial Council (NJC) to urgently sanction Justice A. L. Akintola, who issued the ex parte order, despite being aware of a Federal High Court judgment delivered by Justice James Omotosho on 31 October 2025, addressing the same matter.
Fayose further alleged that “hand-to-mouth judges” were tarnishing the image of the judiciary and must be “flushed out” to restore public confidence.
Condemning the move as an act of desperation by “undertakers waiting to bury the PDP,” he questioned the logic behind seeking an ex parte order from a State High Court compelling INEC to monitor a national convention, despite an existing Federal High Court ruling that expressly forbade it.
