PDP crisis: Oyinlola drags Tukur, NWC to Jonathan

[Mirror]

The suspended National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has dragged the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and the entire National Working Committee before the leader of the party and the president, Goodluck Jonathan, over the continued refusal of the party to allow him resume office. Oyinlola also said that it was inexplicable that NWC could claim that it was unaware of the Appeal Court order when its counsel was in court when the judgement was delivered.

In a statement in Abuja, Oyinlola, through his Principal Secretary, Femi Adelegan, claimed that the court order which PDP said it had not received was transmitted electronically to the National Legal Adviser, Mr. Victor Kwon and Chief Olisa Metuh. "We have proof of service and will prove this.

The question to ask is ''If PDP is unaware, how did it rush its appeal to the Supreme Court? That is the same manner in which Justice Abdul-Kafarati claimed that he was not aware that records of proceedings of his court had been transferred to the Court of Appeal, when he wanted to pronounce Prof. Wale Oladipo as the national secretary, when the proceedings were actually forwarded from his court. Thank God that pronouncement, following its abrogation, has been made in vain."

The statement titled: ''LET THEM USE POWER; WE SHALL USE COURAGE'', disclosed that Oyinlola had formally reported the matter to the national leader of the party, President Goodluck Jonathan. "Oyinlola took this step in consideration of the widely held notion that the perceived long chain of any organisation is its leadership, which is always credited with the gains or shortcomings of the organisation. "It went further to assert that the statements that emanated from Thursday's PDP press conference, could only suggest that regrettably, some people thrive on the basest and lowest forms of sentiments, giving cause for concern about their true commitment to democracy''.

According to him, ''I simply refuse to believe that those perpetrating the horrors of numerous atrocities designed to nail Oyinlola at all costs, are not aware of the implication of denigrating the Judiciary and the rule of law; and that my fiercest critics and opponents today are those who are unhappy at my preference for Due Process in administering the affairs of the PDP national headquarters.

"Most of them are people who were denied attempts to secure undue and illegal political advantage and patronage that would have amounted to the circumvention of regulations.

"It is true that I chose not to compromise on illegalities and destructive tendencies exhibited by these people; That was the advent of the culture of impunity, tyranny, oppression, dictatorship and refusal to abide by the resolutions of majority of PDP NWC members, who were all elected by the party's national convention''.

[Shola Sholaz]

We just hope all this crisis will end as soon as possible before 2015.

[Folami David]

We wait and see where this will all end.