PDP: Another legal battle over chairmanship imminent, as chieftain drags party to court

An aggrieved chieftain and one of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship aspirants in its recent national convention, Professor Taoheed Adedoja, has dragged the opposition party to court over the chairmanship tussle.

In a suit he instituted before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Adedoja a former Minister of Youths and Sports prayed the court to declare the outcome of the convention a nullity.

He claimed in the suit he filed through his lawyer, Mr. Rickey Taffa, that he was excluded from the chairmanship race, explaining that instead of his name, the convention committee used “Taoheed Oladoja”.

Adedoja then argued that it was incorrect to say he scored zero votes at the convention when in actual sense his name was not on the ballot papers.

The legal action is coming at a period the PDP is making concerted reconciliatory efforts following the outcome of the convention that saw Uche Secondus, from the South-south, emerge the party’s national chairman.

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This development now cast doubt on how PDP will be able to achieve positive results with its reconciliatory efforts following the outcome of the convention.

Adedoja, like many of his kinsmen from the South-west, have lambasted the PDP for not allowing the region produce the next chairman of the party.

The party had only just survived a legal battle that threatened to tear it apart, as Sen Ahmed Makardi and Ali Modu Sheriff boy fought a legal battle over who is the authentic leader of the party.

 

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