PDP crisis: Remove Oyinlola as National Secretary – Court orders

by ‘Jola Sotubo

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been ordered by an Abuja Federal High Court to remove the name of former Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, from their records as PDP’s National Secretary.

The ruling laid down yesterday by Justice Abdulkadir Abdul-Kafarati mandated the PDP and INEC to replace Oyinlola’s name with that of a recently nominated member of the Southwest PDP in the person of Adewale Oladipo. Professor Oladipo was nominated at the extra-ordinary zonal congress of the party held in Ibadan, Oyo State on the 13th of July this year.

The judge reportedly ordered the PDP and INEC to comply with the order within three days.

“A consequential order of this court directing the 2nd and 3rd defendants to comply, within three days of this order, with the terms of the judgment of the court requiring rectification of the records of the 2nd defendant to reflect the replacement of the 1st defendant (Oyinlola) with Prof. Adewale Oladipo.”

The judge also extended to July 13 this year, the time limit he had granted in the court’s January 11 judgment for the conduct of the zonal congress.

He also deemed Prof. Oladipo’s nomination by the congress as replacement for Oyinlola “as proper and due compliance with the January 11 judgment.”

The ruling was on a motion on notice filed by Adebayo Dayo (Chairman) and Semiu Sodipo (Secretary) for themselves and the Ogun State chapter of the PDP.

Listed as defendants were Oyinlola, PDP and INEC.

The court had in the January 11 judgment ordered the removal of Oyinlola from office and the conduct of a fresh congress by the Southwest PDP for the purpose of nominating a replacement for Oyinlola.

 

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