The Peoples Democratic Party has said it will proceed to the Supreme Court to challenge Wednesday’s Appeal Court’s reinstatement of former Osun State governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as its National Secretary.
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, disclosed this to newsmen in Gombe on Friday.
Jalo said a legal team of the party was already preparing papers to appeal the judgment, adding that Oyinlola would not be sworn-in.
He said, “Now, we are going to apply for a stay of execution. Oyinlola should not be allowed to even go close to Wadata Plaza, the national secretariat of the party. He cannot go there; we are appealing against the decision.
“We respect what the judiciary has done and it is an act of courage, and whoever is the Judge that did it, he did it within the premise of the law and we have taken it in good faith. But we are appealing against the decision of the court and this is the decision of PDP.”
On claims by the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-faction of the party that it had taken over Gombe State, Jalo dismissed it, saying it was contemptuous, because there was a court judgment nullifying the New PDP.
He said the National Publicity Secretary of the faction, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, who was credited with the claim, was neither in Gombe nor knew Gombe and was therefore not qualified to make statements on the state.
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, disclosed this to newsmen in Gombe on Friday.
Jalo said a legal team of the party was already preparing papers to appeal the judgment, adding that Oyinlola would not be sworn-in.
He said, “Now, we are going to apply for a stay of execution. Oyinlola should not be allowed to even go close to Wadata Plaza, the national secretariat of the party. He cannot go there; we are appealing against the decision.
“We respect what the judiciary has done and it is an act of courage, and whoever is the Judge that did it, he did it within the premise of the law and we have taken it in good faith. But we are appealing against the decision of the court and this is the decision of PDP.”
On claims by the Alhaji Kawu Baraje-faction of the party that it had taken over Gombe State, Jalo dismissed it, saying it was contemptuous, because there was a court judgment nullifying the New PDP.
He said the National Publicity Secretary of the faction, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, who was credited with the claim, was neither in Gombe nor knew Gombe and was therefore not qualified to make statements on the state.
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