Ayodele Fayose, Frm governor of
Ekiti stat
It is shameless pull-him-down syndrome at work. Daramola was
there at the commissioning; he should have spoken there and then,
or is he a coward?”
Former Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose has told the Chief Judge
(CJ) of the state, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, to grow up and shed
his toga of unbridled hatred for him.
The former governor, who was reacting to a statement by
Daramola, bad-mouthing the new state-of-the-art High Court complex
constructed by the Fayose administration, said the CJ had only lent
credence to a Yoruba adage, which says, “the horse of our enemy is
never tall enough in our reckoning.”
Fayose, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu
Adelusi, said the true test of maturity and decency is another
Yoruba adage which says, “an elephant is too big an animal that
someone, out of malice or hatred, would compare with a fly.”
He continued: “Reproach and bad-belle apart, the High Court
complex is world class. It is also the first of its kind since the
creation of Ekiti State in 1996.”
He described Daramola’s statement that the new High Court
complex, built and commissioned five months ago, was hybrid of
absurdity that could not be put to use, as an afterthought and an
exercise in futility.
“It is shameless pull-him-down syndrome at work. Daramola was
there at the commissioning; he should have spoken there and then,
or is he a coward? Speaking now is an act of cowardice and
tantamounts to back-biting as well as back-stabbing.”
Fayose, however, said he was not surprised by what Daramola said
because the judge was sad that such High Court complex for the
state was built by somebody he hated with a passion.
“Daramola has never hidden his displeasure towards me, dating
back many years. He had time and again allowed himself to become
willing tool in the hands of some politicians to be used against
me.
“The CJ was bitter and shed tears at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium,
Ado Ekiti, on October 16, 2014, the day I was sworn in for second
term because I triumphed over all their conspiracies.
“Throughout the four years of my administration, Daramola never
attended state functions personally, and on the day the foundation
of the new High Court complex was laid, he openly expressed doubt
of completing the project.
“In this regard, what does any right-thinking person expect
Daramola to say of one of my legacy projects?
“When the project started, if truly he had noticed certain
defects, why did he fail to point them out? Why did he have to wait
till now? This, certainly, is not the act of a forward-looking
person. It is, without doubt, an act of backwardness.
“Had this project been executed by the All Progressive Congress
(APC) administration whose interests Daramola leaves no one in
doubt he represents, he would have commended it to high
heavens.
“Daramola will be well advised to insulate himself from politics
and allow Ekiti judiciary remain the last hope of the common man,”
Fayose said in the statement.