Oyinlola’s reinstatement: PDP goes to Supreme Court

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it will
proceed to the Supreme Court to challenge Wednesday's
Appeal Court's reinstatement of former Osun governor,
Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as its National Secretary.
The Deputy National Publicicty Secretary of the party, Alhaji
Abdullahi Jalo, disclosed this to newsmen in Gombe, on
Friday.
Jalo said that a legal team of the party was already preparing
papers to appeal the judgement, adding that Oyinlola would
not be sworn-in.
"Now, we are going to apply for a stay of execution. Oyinlola
should not be allowed to even go close to Wadata Plaza, the
national secretariat of the party.
"He cannot go there; we are appealing against the decision,"
he said.
He, however, added that "we respect what the judiciary has
done and it is an act of courage, and whoever is the Judge that
did it, he did it within the premise of the law and we have
taken it in good faith.
"But we are appealing against the decision of the court and
this is the decision of PDP".
On claims by the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-faction of the party that
it has taken over Gombe state, Jalo dismissed it, saying it was
contemptuous, because there was a court judgement nullifying
the new PDP.
He said the National Publicity Secretary of the faction, Chief
Chukwuemeka Eze, who was credited with the claim, was
neither in Gombe nor knew Gombe and was therefore not
qualified to make statements on the state.
"When somebody makes this kind of statement, even a
layman will know that it is contemptuous.
"The law enforcement agencies should have even arrested
them because it is a flagrant abuse of court process.
"There is a valid court judgment which has not been appealed
against and it is a substantive judgment," he said.
Jalo also decried claim by former governor of Gombe state,
Sen. Danjuma Goje, that, he was the leader of PDP in the
state, saying that he (Goje) ought not to have made such
statement.
According to him, as an ex-governor, Goje knows that the
incumbent governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, is the
leader of the party in the state.
He said he would lodge a formal complaint to the party on the
conduct of the former governor.
Via: NAN