Supreme Court verdict: Fayose’s advice made me won at the tribunal — Ishaku

Taraba State Governor Darius Ishaku, yesterday, verbally expressed his Ondo State obverse, Ayodele Fayose, was instrumental to the victory he secured at the Supreme Court to retain his seat as governor after losing in
a dramatic manner at the Court of Appeal. Akwa Ibom and Abia States governors, Emmanuel Udom and Okezie Ikpeazu, respectively, withal revealed that Fayose has been a pillar of fortification to their administrations, disclosing that the Ekiti governor played kindred role during their travails at the election petition tribunal.

The governors made the remarks in Ado Ekiti during the commissioning of some projects executed by Fayose. Besides the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, governors who graced the ceremony include Dr Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, David Umahi of Ebonyi, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Ibrahim Dankwabo of Gombe. Ishaku, while verbalizing at a thanksgiving ceremony organised in accolade of his judicial victory in Ado Ekiti, verbally expressed Fayose’s spiritual counseling made him elude the hammer at the apex court. “After losing at the Appeal Court, I was in Jerusalem with Governor Fayose and, at a time, I became encumbered and I told him (Fayose) that I was yare to go back to my state. But he advised me to stay back and put all my supplications afore God and I did. “I then promised that if I should win the Supreme Court case, I was going to do my thanksgiving in Ado Ekiti and that I am doing today.

He told me that God will make a way for me and this advice authentically subdued my worries and today I am celebrating”.