AG to Sue Fayose for "Ordering" the Beating of a Judge Today

                           The kind of negative reports coming from my state, Ekiti, since this week are troubling, to say the least, as thugs are said to be having a field-day beating up lawyers and now a Judge in broad daylight.

Consequently, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Ekiti State, Olawale Fapohunda, has vowed to sue the state governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, for allegedly ordering that a judge of the High Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital, be beaten up on Thursday by suspected thugs.


Fapohunda said he was going to personally take up the issue with Fayose’s lawyers for not teaching him what decorum meant at a court premises. In a telephone interview with PM News, the Attorney-General said Fayose's impunity started days ago, but that the incident of Thursday is the height:
“I will hold lawyers of the governor-elect personally responsible,” he said.
He lamented that while this attack was on-going, policemen at the scene only looked the other way and could not even rescue the judge...

He condemned such level of impunity being allegedly exhibited by a governor-elect, saying it portends grave danger for not just the legal profession, but the entire country. He further described it as a huge tragedy, wondering what would happen to the average Nigerian if judges cannot be protected.

“It is amazing and shocking. Regrettably, it was in the presence of the police…there is going to be a myriad of suits against him,” he said, while noting that the attack was a dangerous precedent which, if not nipped, would make anyone who thinks he may lose a legal battle order the beating of lawyers and judges.