Kayode Fayemi

The Supreme Court sitting in Abuja has affirmed Kayode Fayemi as Ekiti State governor on Wednesday, awarding N1million cost against Segun Oni.

The judgment notice issued on Tuesday by the Supreme Court read: “Take notice that the judgment on the above appeal will be delivered at 9.00hrs before the Supreme Court of Nigeria sitting in Abuja on Wednesday the 17th day of April, 2019”.

“And further take notice that this Notice is deemed sufficiently served on you if it is delivered on your legal e-mail or/and telephone via this number even if same is not acknowledged. This Notice Supersedes the earlier one.”

Recall that an appeal was filed by former Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni challenging the eligibility of Governor Kayode Fayemi to stand as a candidate in the July 14, 2018, governorship poll.

Oni in the suit claimed that Fayemi was not eligible to run as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate having not resigned as Minister of Mines and Steel Development 30 days before the party’s primary election.

The ex-governor who came second in the APC governorship primary also claimed that Fayemi shouldn’t have contested on the strength of an indictment by a Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by former Governor Ayo Fayose.

The Panel’s White Paper which indicted Fayemi and banned him from office for 10 years has been quashed by a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court.

Oni’s cases before a Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti and the Court of Appeal, Ado Ekiti were however dismissed for lacking merit.