Friday 11 January 2013

UPDATE: Court Sacks Oyinlola As National Secretary Of PDP


The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the National Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Ogunsoye Oyinlola, to vacate the position.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Abdul Kafarati held that the election of Oyinlola to the position was a ``flagrant violation of two court orders’’.
 Kafarati said that evidence existed before the court that two separate orders from a court in Lagos dated 27/4/2012 and 2/5/2012 ordered stoppage of the conduct of Congress that made Oyinlola as South West candidate for the post.
``The court is convinced that those orders were given based on the pendency of a suit against the nomination of the second respondent (Oyinlola) to via for the position.
``The action of those officials who went ahead to conduct the congress was criminal and against the rule of law and they could have been committed to prison.
``Oyinlola is to immediately stop parading himself as the National Secretary of the PDP,’’ he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Chief Adebayo Dayo and Alhaji Semiu Sodipo filed the suit against Oyinlola, PDP and INEC on behalf of the Ogun State Executive Committee of the PDP.
The plaintiffs sought the determination of the question whether the candidacy of the third defendant (Oyinlola) as a nominee of the South West Zonal Chapter of the PDP and his subsequent election into the office were valid.
The plaintiffs further sought the determination of a question whether the candidacy of Oyinlola’s election to the position of National Secretary at the National Convention of the party in March 2012 was invalid.
According to them, the candidacy of third defendant is not recognized by the South West Zone of the PDP.
They further said that the zone had no inputs in the nomination and subsequent election of Oyinlola to the position, adding that position was zoned to the area in accordance to the constitution of the party.
The plaintiffs further sought for the determination of a question whether the conduct of the convention which produced Oyinlola a National Secretary of the party was valid in spite of two pending orders against the action.
 They, therefore, sought a declaration that INEC could not in the circumstance of the ineligibility of Oyinlola and his act of ``criminal contempt continue to be recognized as an official of the PDP''.
They prayed for an order committing Oyinlola to prison for period as the court might see fit in the circumstances of his (Oyinlola) commission of criminal contempt.
 Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria after the proceedings, Oyinlola said that ``there was certainly a misrepresentations of facts in the matter and I shall appeal it’’.
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