PDP opposes Oyinlola’s move to regain post

PDP opposes Oyinlola’s move to regain post Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2013 A legal maxim which states the those who come to equity must come with clean hands, played against the sacked former national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola, as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja was on Tuesday asked to refuse an application brought by him seeking a stay of execution on the order of the court which sacked him from office for treating the court with contempt. Justice Abdu Kafarati had on 11 January sacked Onyinlola from office while delivering judgment in a suit brought against him by a faction of the Ogun state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party and its chairman. The decision was instantly carried out by the PDP which relieved Oyinlola of his appointment. The Ogun state chapter of the party through its chairman, Engr. Adebayo Dayo, had approached the court seeking amongst others, the removal of Oyinlola from office as the national secretary of the party Dayo had challenged the nomination of Oyinlola by the South West Caucus on ground that two court judgments had nullified the South-West zonal congress through which the National Secretary was nominated. Listed as defendants in the suit alongside Oyinlola are Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Independent National Election Commission, INEC. While delivering judgment in the case, Justice Abdul Kafarati held that the action of PDP and Oyinlola amounted to criminal conduct and liable to be condemned to prison for the flagrant disobedience to two subsisting court orders. He noted that Oyinlola is not worthy to be recognized as the National Secretary of the party and should vacate the office. The court also held that Oyinlola could not have emerged as the nominee of the PDP in view of the two court judgments which nullified the congress, adding that orders of the court must be obeyed, whether valid or not. The court berated Oyinlola for his conduct which it said constituted a flagrant disobedience to subsisting court orders and as well as a criminal contempt of court and held that all steps taken thereafter by the Onyinlola is a null and void. Distraught by the speedy compliance with the court’s decision by his party, Oyinlola approached the court with a motion for stay of execution seeking to delay his ouster as he intends to challenge the court’s decision at the Court of Appeal. At Tuesday proceedings where the court heard his motion for stay, Engr. Oludayo Dayo, urged the court to throw away Oyinlola’s application as he had treated the court with contempt and for that, does not deserve to seek the court’s discretion at all. Dayo further informed the court that the Ogun branch of the PDP has a pending application before the court as a fallout of the court’s earlier judgment wherein it is asking the court to commit Oyinlola to prison for treating the court with contempt. He urged the court to dismiss Oyinlola’s application. On its part, the PDP informed the court that it had complied with the court’s judgment by removing Oyinlola as the party’s national secretary and wondered why it took him this long to come and file for a stay of execution over an action that had taken place. The party also stated that Oyinlola’s delay in transmitting the records of the court’s proceedings to Court of Appeal is an indication that if he gets the court to stay his removal from office for him to pursue his right to appeal, that he will take forever. It therefore urged the court to throw away the application for stay.

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