The Abubakar Baraje-led splinter group of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, asked the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to swear in the former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Onyinola, who was, Wednesday, asked by an Appeal Court to be re-instated as National Secretary of the party.
This is just as PDP has approached the Supreme Court asking the apex court to set aside the judgement of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which re-instated Oyinlola.
Meanwhile, chieftain of the party and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark has urged the party leadership not to re-instate Prince Oyinlola until he has dumped the new PDP and showed remorse.
In a statement, yesterday, by the National Publicity Secretary of the new PDP, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the group noted that with the judgment of the Appeal Court, Bamanga Tukur should pack out of Wadata Plaza as the party’s National Chairman.
The statement said: “With the Court of Appeal reversing the unjust sacking of former Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the days of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and his illegal National Working Committee, NWC, in the Wadata Plaza headquarters of our great party have become numbered.
“We received this historical judgment rendered yesterday by the Appeal Court, Abuja, through Justice Joseph Tor with great joy and gratitude.
“This judgment has once again reinforced our belief in the judiciary as the bastion of our democracy and the last hope of the common man.
“With this judgment, we hope that very soon our other court cases asking for the dissolution of the Tukur-led NWC would be given the same serious attention to enable us formally take over the reins of our party and restore it to the path of honour, justice and democratic norms which Tukur and his cohorts have bastardised.
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