Acclaimed PDP Congress In Ogun, A Scam By Omo-Ilu Foundation – NWC
By ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA
The crisis lurking in Ogun State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems interesting as the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party declared that it has not conducted any congress for the election of officers at any level of the party, be it ward, local government chapter and or state in Ogun.
The Committee however disclosed that the purported inauguration of organs of the party in state over the weekend was organised by a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), named ‘Omo-Ilu Foundation’.
The NWC in a statement jointly signed by the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, and National Secretary, Sen. Umaru Ibrahim Tsauri said: “The attention of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been drawn to some media publications, especially, the online media concerning a purported inauguration of certain unknown persons as state officers of the party in Ogun State on Friday, May 8, 2020
“We want to advise members of the public, especially, the teeming members of our great party in Nigeria and Ogun State in particular, that the Peoples Democratic Party has not conducted any congress for the election of the party officers at any level of the party: ward, LGA chapter and or state in Ogun State.
“The NWC also said the decision, in order to allow rule of law, this is in obedience to the interim order made by His Lordship, Hon. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in Suit No. FCT/AB/ CS/208/2020 on March 4, 2020 directing the maintenance of the status quo until the hearing of the motion on notice which is still pending on account of the disruption caused by COVID-19.”
In a related development, Engr Adebayo Dayo, the outgoing PDP Chairman in Ogun, shed more light on the matter when he affirmed the position of the National Working Committee on the kangaroo congress being sponsored and supervised by the foundation.
Dayo narrated: “The said congress is nothing but a sham and scam, where was the congress held. A normal state congress should have nothing less than one thousand delegates, that is, one thousand people must converge in order to have a state congress. Even the lockdown and restriction of gathering of over twenty people is also in place.”
He however concluded by saying that the fake congress held by the foundation can not hold water in the state.
