PDP Ogun: NWC, Adebutu Alliance To Destroy The Party Won’t Work – Bamgbose Declares

ABIODUN JIMOH, ABEOKUTA

Newly inaugurated executive of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ogun State chapter have declared that they have
come to redeem the party from person whose ambition is for self aggrandizement, that contradicted the objective of reclaiming the party’s glory

Chairman of the party, Samson Kayode Bamgbose stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, in reaction to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party press release issued on Saturday hereby declaring their inauguration as illegal, null and void.

The chairman, while narrating the authenticity of their executive emphasised that following the May 8th, 2020 inauguration, they have now legally and validly taken over the running of the affairs of the party in Ogun State.

He said: “The National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP has again shown its hands in the enduring struggle in the Ogun State chapter of the PDP between internal democracy and autocracy.

“The NWC’s press release of May 9th 2020, which seeks to derecognise the new leadership of the PDP in Ogun State led by me is not unexpected, but it is disturbing that our leaders in this great party still do not understand (or just don’t care) that all politics is local.

“And that handing over the structures of the PDP to Ladi Adebutu, whose only desire for seeking such control is to guarantee his ambition of being the candidate of the party for the Ogun State gubernatorial elections in 2023 is a recipe for depletion of the commitment of members to the party in the state and defeat at the polls.

“However, let it be understood emphatically that we will not allow our great party to suffer such humiliation and will protect the rights of our members to choose their own leaders as specifically prescribed by Sections 223 and 224 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Constitution of the PDP.

“This will not be the first time that we will defeat autocracy in our party in Ogun State. Since the contradictions in the party in Ogun State exploded in the first case (Suit No. FHC/L/CS/347/2012) internal democracy has always won.

“In order to restrain the penchant for political impunity the judgments of the courts in that suit and successive cases (particularly Suit No. FHC/L/CS/636/2016) have sought to create a special case for the conduct of congresses and primaries in the Ogun State chapter of the PDP.

“Therefore, in its judgment in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/636/2016 of 24th June 2016, the Federal High Court (echoing its earlier judgment in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/347/2012) ordered (inter alia) in favour of the Adebayo Dayo led PDP Ogun State Executive Committee (OGSEC) as follows:

“That an order is granted to the Plaintiff (Adebayo Dayo led PDP OGSEC) restraining the 2nd Defendant (PDP) by itself, its agents, servants, proxies and surrogates from henceforth conducting the affairs of the PDP in Ogun State.

“Including meetings, congresses and/or primaries except through the new officers of the party that have emerged from congresses conducted by the plaintiffs as listed in the exhibits attached to the affidavit in support of this originating summons.”