The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has described Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja as a disgrace to the judiciary.
Fayose called on the National Judicial Council to “save the judiciary from this disgrace called Okon Abang by showing him the way out of the bench”.
Fayose said this in reaction to the Court of Appeal judgment, which nullified Abang’s ruling of October 14, 2016 declaring Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the. October 26, 2016 governorship election In Ondo State.
He declared Abang’s judgement as a fraud.
He said: “it is obvious that Justice Abang is representing the dirty interests of some cabals, who are protecting him despite the incalculable damages he has done to the judiciary.”
In a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by the governor’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said; “In the face of these indictments by the appellate court, NJC must wade in and save the judiciary from Abang. ”
He said a judge who gives fraudulent judgments is even more dangerous than armed robbers, adding: “Those running after judges for alleged corruption and excluding a judge like Abang may not be far from being the beneficiaries of his (Abang) fraudulent judgments.
“A judge like Abang is a cankerworm that can destroy the country if not removed totally before he does further damage to the polity.
“Today again, three justices of the appeal court descended on Justice Abang, describing his judgments imposing Jimoh Ibrahim as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ondo State and the one affirming Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and the PDP National Chairman as fraudulent.
