Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has dismissed the reported order granted by an Oyo State High Court permitting the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to hold its national convention, describing it as “inconsequential and laughable.”
Fayose said the ruling was a “judicial and political awada kerikeri” that no credible institution could take seriously, adding that even the “most unintelligent human being” would know that a state high court has no power to overrule or act as an appellate court over the decision of a federal high court.
In a statement personally signed by him, the former governor said the order “is dead on arrival and ineffective,” insisting that no one — including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) — could lawfully obey it.
“The judge only granted an ineffective order that is dead on arrival. It is an order no one, including INEC, can obey,” Fayose stated.
He accused the judge, Justice A.L. Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, of judicial recklessness, saying the National Judicial Council (NJC) must urgently sanction him for issuing an ex parte order on a matter already decided by a Federal High Court in Abuja.
“The NJC should, as a matter of urgency, sanction Justice A.L. Akintola, who gave the ex parte order despite being aware of the October 31, 2025 judgment of Justice James Omotosho on the same issue,” Fayose said.
Describing such judicial actions as dangerous to democracy, the outspoken PDP chieftain said the country’s judiciary must rid itself of what he called “hand-to-mouth judges,” whom he described as “bad eggs” tarnishing the image of the institution.
He further alleged that the Oyo court order was a product of desperation by individuals bent on destroying the PDP from within.
“This is another show of desperation by those who have become undertakers, waiting at the graveside to give the PDP a final burial. How do you go to a state high court to get an ex parte order asking INEC to monitor a national convention, when a federal high court ruled just five days ago that it should not?” Fayose queried.
The controversy follows ongoing internal disputes within the PDP over the legality and structure of its planned national convention, with court orders emerging from different jurisdictions across the country.
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