Ekiti State Governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, yesterday called on the National Judicial Council, NJC, to investigate the allegation of beating up a judge by him and maintained that the report is sponsored by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to stall his inauguration.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja, Fayose said all the news about him causing troubles in the state was just a part of grand plan by the APC to get through the back door what they lost at the polls.
"What I'm saying is that the National Judicial Council should launch a thorough probe of the happenings in Ekiti State judiciary and through that; the rot in the system will be exposed.
"A lot of things are happening there and there are signs that some judicial officers are conniving with the outgoing governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi and the APC.
"The current crisis is an agenda of the APC and their sole aim is to try and get through the back door what the people of the state did not give them on June 21 when they voted overwhelmingly for me and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
"I did not and cannot slap a judge. I cannot slap a house boy, let alone a High Court Judge, and I have utmost respect for judicial officers.
"The media propaganda that I beat up a judge is an APC agenda to portray me in bad light having failed to take my mandate through the back door.
"The Ekiti State Attorney-General, Wale Fapounda has disclosed that he has spoken with the judge in question, and he spoke on Channels TV programme on Saturday morning where he made it clear that the news that I slapped the Judge was all lies.
"I did not enter Justice John Adeyeye's court because I had no business to transact there. The Tribunal venue, where I went to, is quite a distance from Adeyeye's court.
"Till now, nobody has been able to provide photo or video evidence that I slapped the judge. And the APC people should know that I will not succumb to blackmail and surrender the mandate freely given to me by the people of the state," he said.
"The current crisis is an agenda of the APC and their sole aim is to try and get through the back door what the people of the state did not give them on June 21 when they voted overwhelmingly for me and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
"I did not and cannot slap a judge. I cannot slap a house boy, let alone a High Court Judge, and I have utmost respect for judicial officers.
"The media propaganda that I beat up a judge is an APC agenda to portray me in bad light having failed to take my mandate through the back door.
"The Ekiti State Attorney-General, Wale Fapounda has disclosed that he has spoken with the judge in question, and he spoke on Channels TV programme on Saturday morning where he made it clear that the news that I slapped the Judge was all lies.
"I did not enter Justice John Adeyeye's court because I had no business to transact there. The Tribunal venue, where I went to, is quite a distance from Adeyeye's court.
Then the pertinent question is, at what point did I meet him?
"Is it that the Judge left his courtroom with his robe to face so called protesters?
"Is it that the Judge left his courtroom with his robe to face so called protesters?
Investigation will reveal all this.
"Till now, nobody has been able to provide photo or video evidence that I slapped the judge. And the APC people should know that I will not succumb to blackmail and surrender the mandate freely given to me by the people of the state," he said.
