A former governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, has dismissed the order granted by Oyo State High Court on the planned People’s Democratic Party (PDP) National Convention, describing it as Ibadan judicial and political ‘awada kerikeri’ of a hand-to-mouth-judge.”
Justice AL Akintole of the High Court of Oyo State in an exparte order granted the PDP approval to proceed with its elective national convention scheduled for November 15th and 16th, 2025, in Ibadan, the state capital.
Fayose in a prompt reaction to the exparte order noted that, “the judge only granted an ineffective order that is dead on arrival order. It is an order no one, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can obey.”
The former governor added that even the most unintelligent human being in Nigeria would know that a State High Court cannot act as an appellate court over the Federal High Court.
He, however, called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to as a matter of urgency sanction Justice A.L. Akintola, who gave the exparte order, despite being aware of the October 31, 2025 judgement of Justice James Omotosho on the same matter.
The former governor said, “judges like Justice Akintola are bad eggs that must be flushed out of the judiciary.”
He further described the order as another show of desperation by those who have become the undertakers, waiting at the graveside to give the PDP a final burial.
“How do you go to a State High Court to get an exparte order asking INEC to monitor a national convention on which a Federal High Court ruled five days ago that it should not monitor?
“It appears that desperation has affected their sense. If not, they won’t go to a State High Court to obtain an order on a matter already decided by a Federal High Court.
“Unfortunately for them, the PDP has been rescued from their hands and it is now in the intensive care, being looked after by the new acting national chairman, Mohammed Abdulrahman.
“I am hopeful that the party will survive under Abdulrahman, and start the most important process of healing from the injuries it suffered from the vampires, which the Ibadan elements represent,” Fayose stated.
