After the Supreme Court judgment which upheld Fayose’s election, Dr. Omirin, a factional speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly has issued a Press release. Omirin is approbating and reprobating at the same time in that Press release. Omirin cannot tell his followers to obey the judgment when he, at the same time is questioning the same judgment.
The Supreme Court based its judgment on what was placed before it. The issue: EFCC v Fayose which is Omirin’s bone of contention is still at the high court level and has not been determined there. Did Omirin and his sympathisers want the Supreme Court to hijack the criminal case from the high court and give appellate decision on it?
It should be noted that this was how some human right lawyers who are Ekiti indigenes gave advice to mislead Justice Aladejana to believe he could constitute a panel to impeach Fayose in 2006. The innocent Judge believed their advice and lost his career as a result.
The Supreme Court judgment of 14th April, 2015 has laid all issues surrounding that Fayose’s purported impeachment of 2006 to rest when it decided that the panel that indicted Fayose was illegally and unconstitutionally constituted. This means that Fayose has never been impeached.
Daramola, the present Ekiti CJ, learning from that episode, knows that presently, there are two factions in the Ekiti State House of Assembly and on the face of the Supreme Court decision of Tuesday, he will not take a suicidal risk of constituting any panel in answer to the 19 lawmakers’ request. To add to this, there is still a pending case at the Federal High Court where the Ekiti CJ, Mr. Daramola is a party.
The effect of the above is that there is no way the 19 lawmakers can impeach Fayose at the moment. They are just barking, they cannot bite.