Secondus rejects Dayo as Ogun PDP chair
National Chairman of PDP, Uche Secondus
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja
The leadership crisis in the Ogun State
chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has deepened following the
refusal of its national leadership to recognise Mr. Adebayo Dayo as the
state chairman of the party.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission recently recognised Dayo as the state chairman of the party.
Dayo and members of his group were not
allowed to participate in the national convention of the party in Abuja
on December 9, 2017.
Before now, the commission and the
national leadership of the PDP had recognised Mr. Sikirulai Ogundele as
the state chairman of the party, a development that resulted in several
litigation, culminating in a recent judgment of the Federal High Court,
Lagos.
But the commission in a letter dated
April 12, 2018 and signed by the Secretary to the Commission, Mrs.
Augusta Ogakwu, said it would recognise Dayo as the Ogun State PDP
chairman.
Ogakwu said the commission took the
decision “in compliance with the judgment of the Federal High Court,
Lagos in Suit No.FHC/L/CS/1556/2017 delivered on 9th February, 2018 and
has notified the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party of
its compliance with the said judgment.”
However, the National Chairman of the
party, Prince Uche Secondus and the party’s National Secretary, Senator
Umaru Tsauri, in their letter to the commission, said the leadership
crisis had been resolved.
In the letter, dated April 20, they
claimed that the Supreme Court had settled the matter in its landmark
judgment in the PDP Vs. Sheriff case on July 2, 2017.
They quoted the apex court as saying
that “it is unfortunate that this internal party crisis within the
appellant (the PDP), has staggered a lot of its anticipated progress. In
any case, it is my hope this imbroglio within the appellant will serve
as a big lesson to all and sundry.”
Secondus and Tsauri therefore asked the commission to withdraw its recognition of the Dayo-led executive.
The letter added, “It will therefore
amount to an inexplicable volte-face and unfortunate somersault if INEC
were to withdraw the recognition of the approved officials of our party
in Ogun State, especially the State Executive Committee led by Sikirulai
Ogundele.
“This will certainly throw the party
back into avoidable conflict. We believe, this cannot be your intention
or wish for our party.”
Dayo, has however, sent another letter
to Secondus, in which he wondered whether the party chairman was sitting
as an appellate court to the decided case.
His letter to Secondus, dated April 24, was titled, “The imperative to the rule of law on Ogun State Executive Committee.”
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