An Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta on Wednesday held that the Joju Fadairo-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State was the authentic arm of the PDP in the state.
The faction is said to be loyal to Governor Gbenga Daniel.
The PDP in the state had been factionalised with a group headed by Fadairo just as the other faction led by the Minister of Commerce and Industries, Chief Jubril Martins-Kuye, is said to be loyal to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
But delivering his judgment in a suit by Fadairo and 25 others, Justice Adetokunbo Jibodu held that the executive members of the Fadairo-led faction, who were duly elected on February 28, 2008, were entitled to hold the offices into which they were elected “as set out opposite their respective names in the schedule annexed to the summons for a term of four years commencing on February 28, 2008”.
The claimants had sued the former chairman of the PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, the National Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, National Vice-Chairman of the PDP (South-West Zone) and the PDP.
The claimants had approached the court on August 9, 2010 to determine if they were not entitled to hold their offices for a term of four years commencing from the date of their election. They also urged the court to determine if Article 12.72 of the PDP’s constitution was not repugnant to Section 223(1)(a) and 2(a) of the 1999 Constitution and therefore unconstitutional, null and void.
But Justice Jibodu further held that the purported dissolution of the Ogun State Executive Committee of that PDP as contained in a letter dated August 6, 2010, purportedly issued by the national chairman of the party was unconstitutional, null and void.
The judge also held that, “The purported harmonisation of the Ogun State Executive Committee of the PDP as contained in a letter dated July 30, 2010 is unconstitutional, null and void.
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