“My attention has been drawn to a purported South West PDP leaders’ meeting held today, 7th August, 2017 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital under the guidance of some impostors parading themselves as the South West Zonal Executives of our party.
Th is came just as I was inundated with calls on the publication of the names of one Eddy Olafeso and a certain Bunmi Jenyo as members of standing and sub-committees for the national convention. In the publication, Olafeso and Jenyo were named as ViceChairman and Secretary of the PDP in the South West.”he said. Senator Kasamu in his reaction emphasized that the purported resolutions by the Dr Olafeso led SW PDP faction against him “by these political harlots are at best a comic-relief of no consequence whatsoever.” Lackeys “ Fayose and his lackeys are better known for their duplicitous fl irtations which borders on the politics of bread and butter.
Th ey are a hungry lot who are ruled and blindfolded by inordinate ambition. Besides, their action shows that Fayose and his minions are either strangers in the party or ignorant of the party’s Constitution, or both. Otherwise, they would have known that Article 57 (7) of the Constitution of PDP states, Notwithstanding any other provision relating to discipline, no Executive Committee at any level, except the National Executive Committee, shall entertain any question of discipline as may relate or concern a member of the National Executive Committee, Deputy Governors or members of the National Assembly.”
Describing the Dr Olafeso faction as the unauthentic SW PDP faction said “the illegal group being promoted by Gov Fayose through Dr Olafeso and Jenyo are contemnors who will soon face the consequences of their actions; except reason and justice prevail”. According to Senator Kasamu “in a ruling delivered in Suit No. FHC/L/ CS/605/2016 on the 17th of May, 2016, the Federal High Court, Lagos, specifi cally nullifi ed the jamboree they held in Akure which they called the South West Zonal Congress.
Till date, the order has neither been set aside nor upturned on appeal.” Court Case “Th e Court said that an order is granted nullifying the South West congress conducted on the 14th of May, 2016 in Akure, which was so conducted in defi ance of the order of this court made in this action on the 11th of May 2016 restraining the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants from conducting or permitting or recognizing any election into the offi ces of the South West Zonal Executive Committee pending the hearing and determination of the Originating Summons. Everything built on actions in defi ance of a court order is a nullity.”
(See Annexure SW/ PDP 1) Furthermore, in a fi nal judgment delivered on the court categorically stated, “Th at an order is granted to the Plaintiff restraining the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants from conducting or permitting or recognizing any election into the offi ces of the South West Zonal Executive Committee until October, 2018, when the four years term of the current offi cers, including the Plaintiff would have been spent.
“Th at an order is granted to the Plaintiff directing the 1st Defendant not to recognize any other persons apart from the current offi cers of the South West Zonal Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party as set out in the result sheet for Zonal Congress for election of Zonal Executive members dated the 11th of October, 2014 until their four year term expires in October, 2018.”
(See Annexure SW/PDP 2) National Convention Now, the background to the judicial intervention was that Fayose and his gang of delinquents sought to truncate the four year tenure of the Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe-led Zonal Executive Committee in the build up to the 2016 National Convention. What is more, as at the time they allegedly held what they called the zonal congress on the 14th of May, 2016, it was common knowledge that the congresses in Lagos, Oyo and Osun states were still being disputed.
Th ose who attended from Ogun State were not the authentic delegates under the leadership of the State Chairman, Engr. Adebayo Dayo. In essence, the kangaroo zonal congress was conducted by delegates from just Ondo. With the raging verbal war among the PDP leadership in the South west with Governor Ayodele Fayose and Senator Buruji Kasamu leading the two warring factions, political observers are no doubt awaiting what would be the end of it all as the Ekiti and Osun states 2018 governorship elections are fast approaching.
