The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has advised Governor Ayodele Fayose to stop attacking the nation’s judiciary, warning him against contempt of court.

The party, while reacting to Fayose’s comments against the court on its ruling that barred the President from deploying the military for election, said the governor was uncomfortable because he had plans to use fake soldiers for the forthcoming general elections in Ekiti.

Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, in a statement, on Thursday, said that the governor’s utterances smacked of contempt of court and brazen attempt to blackmail the judges in the course of performing their legal duties.

He described the governor’s attack on the judges as a continuation of his assault on the judiciary, recalling that “PDP thugs attacked the judges of the Ekiti State High Court, tore their clothes and tore court records in the Chief Judge’s office while the CJ’s secretary was beaten.”

Olatubosun said, “We had already raised the alarm that Ekiti State PDP had been sewing fake military uniforms for thugs to impersonate soldiers during the coming elections to help its candidates win.

“The court’s rulings are deep blows to that fraud. These thugs are already being housed in Adesua Lodge of the Government House where they take off every day to attack opponents and destroy their posters.

“We have always insisted that Fayose can never survive in any system where the law works. He does not believe in the rule of law.

“How can a Federal High Court in Jos and the nation’s Appeal Court make a pronouncement on the same subject banning the Federal Government from deploying soldiers for elections and it now becomes the lot of only Fayose, among the nation’s politicians, to raise objection castigating the judges?”

Olatubosun added that the governor’s actions so far did not portray him as a leader ready to work within approved standard of the law and civilised conduct.

He said, “To demonstrate his depth of desperation, he went ahead to denigrate the Appeal Court judges as APC allies in the judiciary who can never stop President Goodluck Jonathan from deploying soldiers for elections.”