Obasanjo, Responsible For Nation’s Woes – Bafarawa

 CHUKS OHUEGBE

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s claim that a revolution is imminent in the country is still receiving flaks, as former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Dalhatu Attahiru Bafarawa, has asked the authorities to invite the former president for questioning Obasanjo, was the mastermind behind the myriads of problems the polity is witnessing.
Bafarawa said that if the President Goodluck Jonathan administration wants to be taken seriously, it should pull in the former president for questioning over his stewardship for the eight years he was at the helm of affairs in this country.
In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, Alhaji Bafarawa, who governed Sokoto state on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), said, “He was the one who brought the problem that retarded the growth of democracy in Nigeria. Whatever problem we have in this country, most especially from 1999 to date, it was brought by former President Obasanjo.”
Bafarawa traced the root of most of the problems the former president bequeathed the country to his inability to actualize his third term project.
He stated: ‘Because of his personal ambition which was not fulfilled, he brought the problem of forcing leaders against the people’s wish. The bulk of the problem of leadership in this country was brought by him. He brought indiscipline in the running of the affairs of the political parties. Obasanjo turned things upside down in the political parties by bringing military attitude into the party system.
‘The party leadership had to be chosen by him and that also goes to the governors. Whoever becomes the governor has to produce his own party chairman; the president has to have his own national chairman.
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Obasanjo Had No Succession Plan — Atiku

CHUKS OHUEGBE

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar yesterday faulted the claim of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that he was not suitable to succeed him as president in 2007, saying that Obasanjo had no succession plan.

Abubakar also said that the former president wanted to be the Robert Mugabe of Nigeria, if his third term bid had succeeded.

Atiku accused Obasanjo of imposing a crisis-prone last- minute succession by bringing in a “medically challenged Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to succeed him as a means of punishing Nigerians for rejecting his life presidency ambition”.
He added that Obasanjo’s allegations were diversionary, noting that he was “unbelievably shocked by the distortion of truth by Obasanjo who is supposed to speak honestly like a statesman”.
Atiku served as the vice-president in the Obasanjo presidency that spanned 1999 to 2007.

In spite of denials from Obasanjo that he never wanted to succeed himself in office in 2007, a recent book entitled “No Higher Honour” by former United States of America secretary of state Ms. Condoleeza Rice quotes Obasanjo to have lobbied former President Bush of the US for support in his third term bid, which the book says Bush advised against

The former US secretary of state was quoted on page 638 of her memoir as saying ,“In 2006 when President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria sidled up to President Bush and suggested that he (Obasanjo) might change the constitution so that he could serve a third term, President Bush told him not to do it.” In Bush’s words “You have served your country well. Now turn over power and become a statesman.”

But Obasanjo told a national newspaper over the weekend that his former deputy (Atiku) destroyed his own chances of succeeding him in 2007. He said that Atiku was unreliable and lacked the vision, orientation and experience to step into his shoes.

Reacting to these allegations, however, the former vice-president said his problems with Obasanjo had nothing to do with these charges. Instead, Atiku recalled, his opposition to Obasanjo’s third term ambition was the beginning of his travails.

Atiku maintained that Obasanjo had no succession plan from day one, and that he wanted to be Nigeria’s Robert Mugabe.

The former vice-president also accused Obasanjo of handing over power to the late Yar’Adua reluctantly as a face-saving measure following the collapse of his third term ambition on the floor of the Senate on May 16, 2006.

The Turaki Adamawa explained that he opposed tenure elongation of Obasanjo on the grounds that the constitution should not be amended for the sake of granting one man’s life term ambition rather than public interest. On the claim by Obasanjo that he didn’t discuss third term ambition with anybody, Atiku recalled that the former President sent two senior cabinet ministers to him to deliberate on a draft constitution.

Curiously, Atiku said, the draft was silent on term limit, which made him smell a rat and that his courage to confront Obasanjo over this controversial plan was the beginning of his troubles with his former boss and the subsequent plots to frustrate his ambition to become president.

Atiku praised Nigeria’s past leaders including General Yakubu Gowon, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, General Ibrahim Babangida, Ernest Shonekan, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, statesmen, legislators, past chief justices and the media for coming together to pull Nigeria from the brink and ensuring an orderly succession to the presidency by the then vice-president, Dr. Jonathan Goodluck.

“Without this, Nigeria would have been plunged into yet another major crisis arising from the actions of one man,” Atiku said.

On the allegations of incompetence and unreliability made against him by Obasanjo, former Vice President Atiku said Obasanjo is the last person to lecture any Nigerian on reliability.

With the recent revelations by former U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Atiku  advised his former boss to defend himself on this latest moral challenge to his reputation before he could question the reliability of others.

Atiku also dismissed as preposterous the allegation against him by Obasanjo that he is inexperienced. He challenged Obasanjo to disclose any responsibility or task that he assigned to him while in office, which he didn’t discharge competently.

Rather than losing his head to underserved flattering newspaper attention, Atiku said Obasanjo should apologize to Nigerians for dragging our politics into disrepute because of his disregard for fair play or the basic rules of democracy.

He accused Obasanjo of being obsessed with the myth of indispensability and the false notion of being the cleanest person. According to Atiku, even President Jonathan and the late Umaru Yar’Adua are not safe from Obasanjo’s self-righteous attacks on other leaders.
 Leadership

Hold Elite Responsible For Nigeria’s Woes — Buhari

CHUKS OHUEGBE

Former head of state and presidential flag-bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general election General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has attributed the country’s current woes to the elite who, he said, should be held responsible for whatever goes wrong.

Speaking yesterday in Abuja at a one-day conference on “Development from Global Perspectives: Agriculture Versus Oil and Gas” organised by Muregi Associates and the LEADERSHIP Newspaper Group, Buhari said that strong institutions in the country have been destroyed by strong people.

He said: “Nothing is working in Nigeria today because of irresponsible elite. We have to talk to the elite. They are responsible for the sharing of the national cake. If anything happens they are to be held responsible.

“It was the strong people that destroyed the strong institutions we inherited from the British. They left us with accountability. We need strong people to retake these institutions to make them work.”

In his remarks on the occasion, the minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said that military intrusion into the nation’s governance in 1966 destroyed the emergence of a national elite.

“In Nigeria, people believe more in the regions, instead of the centre. We need a new movement for the integration of the country,” the Information minister said.

On the belief that Nigerians are corrupt, the minister said that there is a co-relation between the so-called corrupt Nigerians and the trans-Atlantic companies that aid the act.

Corroborating the views of the minister, one-time national chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Audu Ogbeh, said that some expatriate companies operating in the country aided corruption.

Ogbeh cited the construction of the second runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja that was quoted to cost N64 billion by an expatriate construction company, an amount that could build four brand new airports.

“So, when we are called corrupt, we accept guilty as charged. How about those who aid this corruption?” Ogbeh queried.

In his lead paper entitled “Corruption, Governance and Development”, Professor Francis Fukuyama identified weak state, high degree of ethnic/ religious fragmentation and petro-state liabilities as the sources of Nigeria’s institutional underperformance.

Fukuyama, who lectures at the Centre on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at the Stanford University, California, in the United States of America, also described Nigeria as a “limited access order” as politics is a route to wealth instead of entrepreneurship.

He said that there is the need to diversify from energy, noting that oil has been a curse.

A panacea, according to him, is investing in electricity and infrastructure.

Fukuyama, the renowned author of The End of History and the last man, said that the accounting system requires transparency and disciplining mechanisms and the need to implement Freedom of Information law.

He added that agencies should publish flow of funds on a monthly basis, while grassroots monitoring should be a possibility through technology.

In his paper entitled “Agriculture and oil and gas: A synergy for economic transformation in Nigeria”, Chief Audu Ogbeh said that the country failed to use the black gold to develop the green gold, namely, agriculture

“So, we turn to imports, which is where the calamity comes. We expend at least $10 billion on food imports annually. On wheat - $4.23 billion; rice - $2.32 billion; milk - $1.5 billion, not to mention cookies and biscuits, fruit juice concentrates, tomato paste, salt, palm oil, starch, ice cream powder, vegetable oils. The list is endless.

The question is: how long can we survive this onslaught of imports?” Ogbeh asked.

The occasion, also had in attendance other eminent personalities including the United Nations under-secretary, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, former vice chancellor of the University of Abuja Professor Nuhu Yaqub, former minister of FCT Dr. Modibbo Umar, and former minister of sports Barrister A. H. Gimba.
 Leadership

PDP National Vice Chair, Aide Shot

 CHUKS OHUEGBE

The national vice chairman (South-South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Steve Oru, has been shot by unknown gunmen.  He was promptly rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH),Benin City, where, up until press time, he was lying in critical condition.
Although security agencies could not easily establish who was behind the attack, unofficial sources linked it to armed robbery. Oru was shot at while travelling from Warri to Ughelli in Delta State.
One of his aides who confirmed the attack to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND said that the PDP chief was shot from the back with an AK 47, adding that the bullet hit his collar bone, pierced through his intestines and passed out.
It was also learnt that the mobile police orderly attached to him was not lucky: he was shot dead. The incident, which occurred on February 3, 2013, has been kept from the public glare.
PDP national publicity secretary Chief Olisa Metuh confirmed the incident yesterday.
Meanwhile, the face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and former president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday took a turn for the worse with the removal of the PDP national auditor, Chief Bode Mustapha, from the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and the nullification of the South-West zonal congress conducted in March 2012. Most of the winners of the cancelled congress were loyalists of Obasanjo.
The removal of Chief Mustapha came on the heels of the removal of the PDP national secretary, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola, by the Federal High Court, Abuja. He is another protege of the former president.
Though Oyinlola is in court challenging his removal, his photographs in the offices at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja have been removed, his office locked and his personal staff numbering about 19 asked not to come near the secretariat.
Factions loyal to President Jonathan and Obasanjo are locked in a supremacy battle over the control of the party, including its Board of Trustees (BoT) and the NWC. Party watchers believe that what is playing out is a game plan to neutralise the former president’s influence in the party ahead of the 2015 general elections.
In a statement signed by Metuh, the PDP yesterday confirmed the sack of Chief Mustapha and the dissolution of the South-West congress conducted in March 2012.
The party said that Mr Fatai Adewole Adeyanju was the “validly elected national auditor of the PDP”.
The NWC of the party, which met on Thursday and presided over by the PDP national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, according to the statement, deliberated mainly on the Ogun State exco and the South-West exco.
The party’s statement reads:
“Following protracted dispute on the Ogun State and South-West zonal exco of the party, a series of suits were filed on the matter, amongst which include FHC/L/CS/1248/2011, FHC/L/CS/282/2012 and FHC/L/CS/347/2012.
*That Chief Bode Mustapha is removed from office as the national auditor of the PDP;
*That Alhaji Fatai Adewole Adeyanju is the validly elected national auditor of the PDP;
*That the PDP is to rectify its records by deleting the name of Chief Bode Mustapha as national auditor and replacing the same with Alhaji Fatai Adewole Adeyanju;
* That the South-West zonal congress of the PDP conducted in March 2012 is nullified;
*That the executive committee constituted for the PDP in Ogun State at congresses conducted by the Bashorun Dayo Soremi-led harmonised executive committee for the wards, local governments and the state in March 2012 are valid exco of the party at the various levels in Ogun State and are entitled to their 4-year tenure;
*That the PDP is to organise a fresh South-West zonal congress at which access is to be given to delegates elected at congresses conducted by or under the supervision of the Soremi-led Ogun State executive and accept the candidacy, for offices zoned to Ogun State, of only the persons nominated at the said congresses for the said offices.
*The National Working Committee of the party met on 14th February, 2013 and gave careful consideration to the issues and decided that, in line with respect to the rule of law which is a cardinal principle of the present administration, the PDP as a law-abiding party, will immediately comply with the said judgement. This is all the more so that same has not been set aside or reversed by any superior court.”
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Edo ACN chairman escapes death as youths storm party’s secretariat

 

By SIMON EBEGBULEM
THE Edo State chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mr Thomas Okosun, yesterday, escaped death through the whiskers yesterday, when factional angry ACN youths stormed the party’s secretariat and unleashed mayhem on the chairman and other party officials.
The chairman and other officers of the party escaped from their offices through the back door leading to Akenzua road but their vehicles were not spared, as the youths destroyed about three vehicles including the Prado jeep belonging to the chairman of the party.
It was learnt that the opposing groups who are backing different councillorship candidates ahead the April 20, 2013 Local Government Council election in the state found out that the names of their councillorship candidates were substituted.
It was gathered that the youths became more infuriated when they learnt that the leadership of the party had ordered that the councillorship positions in Egor and Oredo be shared equally among the two major factional groups in the ACN, even after the authentic councillorship candidates have emerged in their various wards in the last weekend Chairmanship and councillorship primaries of the party.
However, the opposing groups stormed the party’s secretariat at about 3pm yesterday, engaged themselves in a physical combat, just as they descended on the party leaders within the premises.
It took the intervention of battle ready mobile policemen to disperse the youths when they were about burning down the party’s secretariat. Efforts made to get the reaction of the chairman proofed abortive as he could not answer his phone. Vanguard however learnt that the leadership of the party went into hiding so as to find solution to the problems.
 Vanguard

PDP moves against Obasanjo

 

By Henry Umoru, Abuja & Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta
THE crises rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken another twist as the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday bowed to Court judgement, moved against former President Olusegun Obasanjo and sacked the National Auditor, Chief Bode Mustapha.
According to PDP, Mustapha who was former President Obasanjo’s person will be replaced by Alhaji Fatai Adewole Adeyanju as the dully elected National Auditor in the March 2012 congress.

File photo: From Left, President Jonathan,  Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, Former President and Bot Chairman, Chief Obasanjo and Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Ogiadomhe at the PDP convention

Rising from its meeting in Abuja after discussing Report of the Decision of PDP NWC on Ogun State Exco & South West Zone Exco, the Alhaji Bamanga Tukur led National Working Committee, NWC also approved the removal of the former governor of Ekiti State and the National Vice Chairman, South West, Engr. Segun Oni, just as the entire Executive of the South West Zonal Executive that came on board March 2012 was nullified.
Bode Mustapha, Oni and other South West Executives were believed to have been anointed by former President Obasanjo in March last year.
The National leadership of the PDP in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh,  explained that as a law abiding institution, it became imperative to adhere strictly to the ruling of the Appeal Court which had sacked them.
The PDP also yesterday put in place a 17-member Caretaker Committee to run the affairs of South West Zone of the party. The Committee which has Ishola Filani as Chairman, has  Chief Pegba Otemolu as  Zonal Secretary; Adedeji Doherty as  Organizing Secretary;  Rasak Adekonla Akanni as  Auditor;  Bolaji Jeje  as Youth Leader;  Orimolade Olanrewaju  as Treasurer; Olawunmi Oshinmoluke Yuba,  as Woman Leader;  Banji Obasanmi  as Financial Secretary; Barrister Shola Oludipe, as Legal Adviser;  Lawal Waheed Olatunde as  Publicity Secretary;  Emmanuel Oladejo as – Ex-Officio; Olalekan Abubakar as Ex-Officio; Seun Adesanya, as Ex-Officio; Samiu Babatunde, as Ex-Officio; Prince Tope Ademiluyi, as Ex-Officio; Tunde Olowofoyeku, as Ex-Officio and  Prince Omoniyi Alo, as  another Ex-Officio.
The statement read, ‘’The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party has announced the constitution of a Caretaker Committee to pilot the affairs of the South West Zone of the Party pending the conduct of the Zonal Congresses. The 17 member committee is headed by Barrister Ishola Filani as Zonal Chairman.’’
The removal of Mustapha is coming more than eight months after Justice Charles Archibong of the Federal High Court in Lagos voided his appointment as the National Auditor of the PDP on the grounds that he was not qualified for the office and against the backdrop that he was not a Chartered Accountant.
It will also be recalled that Justice Charles Archibong had ordered that the PDP, its National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, and the then National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola to appoint Alhaji Fatai Adewole Adeyanju, being a qualified chartered accountant and nominated for the office at the state congress of the party in Ogun State.
The court further ordered the nullification of the last Southwest zonal congress of the party and ordered the party, Tukur and Oyinlola to give access and right of participation at a fresh congress to the delegates elected by the Soremi-led executive and accept for offices zoned to the Southwest, only the nominees of the Soremi Executive.
This verdict of the court was based on a suit filed by Chief Adebayo Dayo, and Alhaji Semiu Sodipo, for themselves and on behalf of the Ogun State Executive Committee of the PDP. The suit numbered: FHC/L/CS/347/2012 had PDP, Bamanga Tukur, Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Bode Mustapha as defendants.
Metuh’s statement read, ‘’following protracted dispute on the Ogun State and South West Zonal Exco of the party, a series of suits were filed on the matter, amongst which include FHC/L/CS/1248/2011, FHC/L/CS/282/2012 and FHC/L/CS/347/2012.
‘’That Chief Bode Mustapha is removed from office as the National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party; That Alhaji Fatai Adewole Adeyanju is the validly elected National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party; ‘’That the Peoples Democratic Party is to rectify its records by deleting the name of Chief Bode Mustapha as National Auditor and replacing the same with Alhaji Fatai Adewole Adeyanju; That the South West Zonal Congress of the Peoples Democratic Party conducted in March 2012 is nullified;
‘’That the Executive Committee constituted for the PDP in Ogun State at Congresses conducted by the Bashorun Dayo Soremi led harmonized Executive Committee for the Wards, Local Governments and in the State in March 2012 are valid Exco of the Party at the various levels in Ogun State and are entitled to their 4-years tenure (the State Exco list is attached herewith);  ‘’That the PDP is to organize a fresh South West Zonal Congress at which access is to be given to delegates elected at congresses conducted by or under the supervision of the Soremi-led Ogun State Executive and accept the candidacy, for offices zoned to Ogun State, of only the persons nominated at the said congresses for the said offices.
‘’The National working Committee of the Party met on 14th February 2013 and gave careful consideration to the issues and decided that, in line with respect to the rule of law which is a cardinal principle of the present administration, the PDP as a law abiding party, will immediately comply with the said judgment. This is all the more so that same has not been set aside or reversed by any superior court.’’
 Tukur wants to destroy PDP — Obasanjo’s faction
The  faction of  the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Ogun State“believed  to be loyal to  former President Olusegun Obasanjo  on“yesterday described the step taken by the National Working Committee, NWC,“which sacked its executive as a plan to destroy the party.“ Reacting to the  press statement  issued by  the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa  Metuh announcing the replacement of “Obasanjo’s  faction  of the state executive with Kashamu’s faction ,“and the removal of Bode Mustapha as the National Auditor ,the“factional State  Secretary,   Dapo Adeyemi said they were yet to be“formally informed.“
Adeyemi  said “the news came to us  and others through verbal report,the state chapter is yet to be informed officially, but, if that is the position of the national body, it is a good  signal to the growthof the party. We just heard about it some 20minutes ago, we have not heard it officially.
Whatever the national leadership  deems  fit, let them go ahead. If they want to destroy the party, let them go ahead, let them continue, no problem,”the party scribe stated.
Adeyemi  said that ironically, the national working committee of the party “had not contributed a penny to the success and administration of the party, since inception.“
However, the Buruji Kashamu faction of the party in its  reaction said, “the party was  now following the rule of law, with the latest development“
The factional  Chairman said that  with the new development,”the party was  ready to regain its  lost glory.”
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PDP sacks Segun Oni, Mustapha •Appoints 17- member caretaker committee for South-West

 by  Leon Usigbe and Jacob Segun Olatunji — Abuja

THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday announced the dissolution of the Chief Segun Oni led South west zonal executive committee  of the party and also proceeded to remove Chief Bode Mustapha as the National Auditor.
In Mustapha’s place, the party named Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju, who it said was the validly elected person for the post. It also announced a 17-member caretaker committee  to take over the party’s affairs in the South-West.
The party said it was complying with court orders voiding the elections of the zonal officers and the national auditor in May last year.
The decision signposted a deepening of the crisis rocking the party in the last few weeks.
Oni, members of his executive committee and Mustapha are believed to be loyalists of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Another Obasanjo loyalist and former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, had been similarly removed as the National Secretary of the party following a court order last month.
A  statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, disclosed that  its National Working Committee (NWC) had deliberated on the protracted dispute on the Ogun State and South West zonal excecutive committees of the party, over which a series of suits were filed. Among the suits, according to the statement, were FHC/L/CS/1248/2011, FHC/L/CS/282/2012 and FHC/L/CS/347/2012 that led to the nullification of Mustapha’s appointment as the National Auditor of the party.
The statement recalled that a court had ruled that Adeyanju was the validly elected National Auditor of the party and that the PDP should rectify its records by deleting the name of Chief Bode Mustapha as National Auditor and replacing the same with Alhaji Fatai Adewole Adeyanju.
The PDP similarly said it recalled that the South West zonal congress of the party conducted in March 2012 was nullified while the executive committee constituted for the PDP in Ogun State at congresses conducted by the Chief Dayo Soremi-led harmonised executive committee for the wards, local governments and in the state in March 2012 was declared valid at the various levels in Ogun State and entitled to their four-year tenure.
Finally, the PDP noted that “the judgment directed the party to organise a fresh South West zonal congress at which access was to be given to delegates elected at congresses conducted by or under the supervision of the Soremi-led Ogun State executive and that it should accept the candidacy, for offices zoned to Ogun State, of only the persons nominated at the said congresses for the said offices.
“The National Working Committee of the party met on 14th February 2013 and gave careful consideration to the issues and decided that in line with respect to the rule of law which is a cardinal principle of the present administration, the PDP, as a law abiding party, will immediately comply with the said judgment. This is all the more so that same has not been set aside or reversed by any superior court,” the statement declared.
The election of Mustapha had in May 2012 been voided by Justice Charles Archibong of the Federal High Court in Lagos. The court had also held that based on its judgment of January 27, 2012 declaring among others, that the Soremi-led executive was the authentic management body of PDP in Ogun State, the party officials who emerged from the congresses conducted by the Soremi executive were validly elected.
The PDP has now decided to abide by the court ruling.
The court had held that Mustapha, who  emerged as the National Auditor of the party at its national convention on March 24 in Abuja, was not qualified for the office and therefore ordered that the PDP, its National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, to appoint Adeyanju, who was nominated for the office at the Ogun State congress of the party.
According to the judgment,  Mustapha “is not a valid nominee nor could he have been validly elected for the office of the National Auditor of the PDP zoned to Ogun State in accordance with the constitution of the party because he is not qualified  as an accountant or nominated by at the state congress of the party conducted by the Soremi-led harmonised executive committee.”
The court order, granted by Justice O. E. Abang in suit Number FHC/L/CS/282/2012 between Chief Dapo Soremi and others, and the PDP and five others, reads:
“That the South West zonal congress of the Peoples’ Democratic Party held in Osogbo, Osun State, on 21st March 2012 involving the election of delegates to the National Convention of the party is hereby set aside and accordingly nullified.
“The election of officers at the National Convention of the 1st respondent (PDP) involving only those that emerged as purported elected delegates from South West zonal congress of the 1st respondent (PDP) is hereby set aside and accordingly nullified.”
Meanwhile, the PDP NWC has announced the constitution of a caretaker committee to pilot the affairs of the South-West zone  of the party pending the conduct of the zonal congress.
The 17-member committee is headed by Chief Ishola Filani. Other members of the committee are Chief Pegba Otemolu, secretary: Adedeji Doherty, organising secretary; Rasak Adekonla Akanni, auditor; Bolaji Jeje, youth leader;  Orimolade Olanrewaju, treasurer; Olawunmi Oshinmoluke Yuba,  woman leader; Banji Obasanmi, financial secretary; Shola Oludipe, legal adviser and Lawal Waheed Olatunde, publicity secretary.
Others listed as ex-officio members are Emmanuel Oladejo, Olalekan Abubakar, Seun Adesanya, Samiu Babatunde, Prince Tope Ademiluyi, Tunde Olowofoyeku and Prince Omoniyi Alo.
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