Fayose is a magician, miracle maker, patriot to Nigeria, says Afe Babalola

our dream comes true – Ekiti CJ
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria ( SAN), and founder of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola has described Governor Ayodele Fayose as a patriot, not only to Ekiti, the Yoruba race but to the whole of Nigeria.

The legal luminary also described Fayose as a magician, miracle maker, architect , planner, visioner and executioner who has changed the face of judiciary in Ekiti.

Babalola poured the encomiums in Fayose for completing the new ultra modern Ekiti State High Court Complex and naming it after the first Chief Judge of the state and now a monarch, Rtd Justice Oba Ademola Ajakaiye, the Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti.

From left, Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom, immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike and the Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, during the commissioning of the new Governor’s Office in Ado Ekiti on Friday.

In a statement by Governor Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Idowu Adelusi, Babalola was quoted as saying that Fayose has amazed the doubting Thomases who didn’t believe he could complete the N1.9 billion High court complex within the record time and also surpassed his predecessors in performance.His words: “I was a frontliner in the struggle, our hopes, most of them have not been achieved. This is a special day because some 55 years ago I practised law in this place. It is for Fayose that the face of practising law would be changed for the better in Ekiti. Fayose is a magician, miracle maker, visioner, architect, planner, an executioner, a patriot from Ekiti from Yoruba land and to the whole of Nigeria. “When on October 12, 2016 he promised to change the face of the judiciary to modern structures, and vowed to complete it in 18 months, there were doubting Thomases but now he has done it. He is a wonderful man.

“Our hope was that we would make Ekiti the best place in Nigeria. Those who are blessed and are Ekiti and whom we relied on at that time have not lived up to our expectations except of course for me who have been able to put up a tertiary institution that has become the best in the country. We therefore urge our blessed Ekiti sons and daughters to come home and develop the state,” he said.

Also lauding the governor for naming the complex after him, Oba Ajakaiye, said: ”
plan to have High court complex started in 1998. That dream has now been realized by vision of our dynamic leader, Fayose. It is also noteworthy that this is the first time a high court complex would be named after an individual.