‘Dead-on-arrival order’: Fayose debunks Oyo court ruling on PDP convention

Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has dismissed the order granted by an Oyo State High Court on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention.

Fayose said: “The judge only granted an ineffective order that is a dead-on-arrival order.”

“It is an order no one, including the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), can obey.”

The former governor stated that it is common knowledge that a State High Court cannot act as an Appellate Court over the Federal High Court.

He called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to as a matter of urgency sanction Justice A.L. Akintola, who gave the exparte order, despite being aware of the October 31, 2025, judgement of Justice James Omotosho on the same matter.

Fayose said “hand to mouth judges” like Justice Akintola are bad eggs that must be flushed out of the judiciary.

Court grants PDP approval to hold national convention in Ibadan

Fayose described the order as another show of desperation by those who have become the undertakers, waiting at the graveside to give the PDP a final burial.

He said: “How do you go to a State High Court to get an exparte order asking INEC to monitor a national convention on which a Federal High Court ruled five days ago that it should not monitor?

“It appears that desperation has affected their sense. If not, they won’t go to a State High Court to obtain an order on a matter already decided by a Federal High Court.

“Unfortunately for them, the PDP has been rescued from their hands and it is now in intensive care, being looked after by the new Acting National Chairman, Mohammed Abdulrahman.

“I am hopeful that the party will survive under Abdulrahman and start the most important process of healing from the injuries it suffered from the vampires, which the Ibadan elements represent.”

The Star