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Again, rumble in PDP as Southwest excos drag Makarfi to court

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Again, rumble in PDP as Southwest excos drag Makarfi to court

The internal cohesion of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may yet again be put to test as its South-West Zonal Executive Committee has dragged the leadership of the party to Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge its dissolution.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/732/2017, and filed by the sacked Secretary to the PDP South-West Zonal Executive Committee, Pega Otemolu, the aggrieved members are seeking a court order nullifying the 75th National Executive Committee meeting of the PDP.

Joined as respondents in the suit are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); the PDP; and the Chairman of the PDP National Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi, Ben Obi, Eddy Olafeso, Bunmi Jenyo and the Inspector-General of Police.

The emerging rumble in the Southwest is complicated by yet another suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/701/2017, also filed before the Federal High Court Abuja by Adebayo Dayo and Alhaji Semiu Sodipo on behalf of themselves and the dissolved PDP executive committee in Ogun State. The suit has the PDP and INEC as respondents.

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Both suits by the Southwest executives claim that the PDP deliberately defied and subverted the May 17, 2016 order and June 24, 2016 judgment of the Federal High Court in a suit marked, FHC/L/CS/605/16.

In particular, the sacked PDP leadership in Ogun are seeking “an order nullifying the ratification by and/or affirmative resolution of the Special Non-Elective National Convention of the 1st defendant/respondent of the 12th day of August, 2017, sanctioning, approving or effecting the dissolution of the PDP Ogun State Executive Committee and the appointment of a state Caretaker Committee in replacement thereof.”

The case which has been adjourned till September 5, 2017 is seen by many political observers as Senator Buruji Kasumu’s bid to maintain his tenuous hold on the party machinery in the Southwest, having found himself on the losing side in the face-off between the Ahmed Markafi and Ali Modu Sheriff factions.

 

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