By DAUD OLATUNJI
ABEOKUTA – PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, alleged that Justice Charles Archibong of Federal High Court in Lagos planned to issue what it considered "far-reaching orders" against it in today's ruling over a contempt case.
PDP said Justice Archibong should be stopped from sitting "to ensure that justice is done transparently. The party alleged that the suit before Justice Archibong had been settled against it and the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission, OGSIEC.
In a petition by its National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, PDP called for intervention "to ensure that justice is done transparently to prevent Justice Archibong from sitting at the Federal High Court, Lagos and carrying out his threat of vendetta and "far-reaching orders."
The party said: "With due respect, this development, if unchecked, would amount to a flagrant abuse of court process as Prince Kashamu's surrogates have caused a fresh action to be instituted against OGSIEC and our party before the same Justice Archibong.
Oyinlola, in the petition dated July 3, claimed that Kashamu had urged "His Lordship, Justice Archibong to act promptly in this matter involving OGSIEC, our party and the Bayo Dayo faction with all supporters of Kasahmu now celebrating the envisaged "far- reaching orders" of July 4, 2012 (today).
Corroborating Oyinlola's allegations, at a briefing, in Abeokuta, yesterday, the former President Olusegun Obasanjo-led faction of PDP in the state alleged that it had it on good authority of the alleged resolve of Justice Archibong to go ahead with the case today despite an alleged petition and query issued to him by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
Vanguard Nigeria