26/01/2017

PDP crisis: Court sacks pro-Fayose’s exco

Image result for Mr. Ayodele Fayose.The Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti yesterday sacked the PDPs State Working Committee (SWC) loyal to the state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose.
Fayose emerged chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, last week but the recent development in his home state cast shadows on how successful he would be in influencing decisions of the party.

The sacked faction was led by Mr Gboyega Oguntuase.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo ruled that the faction led by Mr. Williams Ajayi, said to be loyal to the senator representing Ogun-East,  Buruji  Kashamu, remained the authentic chairman of the party in the state.
Buruji is loyal to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction of the PDP while Fayose belongs to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi faction.
Ajayi  had in a suit number FCH/AD/CS/21/2015, filed on May 16, 2016, urged the court to recognize his faction of the PDP in the congresses conducted in all the 177 wards, 16 local governments and at the state level on April 30 and  4th and 5th May, 2016, respectively.
The plaintiff, who urged the court to pronounce him as the authentic chairman of the party, also sought for an order declaring the Oguntuase’s faction illegal.
He joined INEC (1st respondent), PDP (2nd respondent), Ali Modu Sheriff (3rd respondent), Prof Wale Oladipo (4th) and Gboyega Oguntuase (5th respondent).
In the judgment, Justice Taiwo said the motion on  notice pending  at the Appeal Court over attempt  by the 2,3,4 and 5th respondents to change their lawyer and appoint  Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), as the lead counsel was not enough to delay the delivery of the judgment.
Justice Taiwo said: “A political party must operate within certain guidelines and when there is a crisis of this nature in a party, we use the party’s constitution and the 1999 Constitution to remedy it,” he said.
 “It is not in dispute that 2,3,4,5 respondents were jointly represented, and not in dispute that 2 and 3 are members of the PDP. It is not also in dispute that 3rd and 4th respondents were still acting as the chairman and National Secretary.
“So, going by the PDP’s guidelines, the power to conduct congresses at the ward, local governments and state levels can only be directed by NWC and since these people were still in charge at that time, any other directive or parallel congress by any other  body is  null and void,” he said.
The lawyer to the respondents, Mr. Bimpe Olatemiju, had called  the attention of the court to a letter dated January 19, 2017 and deposited with the registrar of the court to the effect that the court should set aside the proceeding of December 8, 2016, when the written addresses were adopted and the need to stay action on the court’s proceeding, pending the determination of the motion on notice at the appellate court filed against the October 12, 2016 ruling  of the court.
The ruling was delivered against the 2,3,4,5th respondents on their request to appoint Ozekhome as their lead counsel.

Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/politics/pdp-crisis-court-sacks-pro-fayose-s-exco/182408.html#PaKbK4zPf5PeFqOH.99

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