THE Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP)
suspended National Secretary, Prince
Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has said he cannot join the
party’s governorship campaign train since his
alleged suspension has not been lifted. Oyinlola also asked a former Deputy National
Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode George, to
speak on what the South-West PDP leaders
discussed recently at his Abuja residence on the
party’s National Secretary’s office.
The former Osun State governor, who made the
clarification in a statement yesterday, said the
alleged endorsement of Prof. Wale Oladipo as
the Southwest’s candidate for the office was
contemptuous of the court.
The statement said: “The party said I am on
suspension and a suspended member of any
organisation cannot be expected at the same
time to be part of its activities.
“Those who went to the Supreme Court should
withdraw their appeal against the Court of
Appeal decision which reinstated me as the
party’s National Secretary. I call on the party to
obey that verdict of the court on the post.”
Oyinlola warned against sub judicial comments
on the issue by some persons who claimed to
have been part of the Southwest PDP leaders’
meeting.
He said: “I have been reading some funny, sub
judicial comments from some comical fellows
purporting endorsement, at that meeting, of
someone for a post that is subject of a case at
the Supreme Court.”
“One does not need to be a lawyer to know that
it is not only futile, but contemptuous of our
courts for a group of people to be making
moves to overreach and undermine the justice
system.
“I am quite aware, through my sources at that
meeting, that claims of endorsement of any
pretender by the Southwest are false as no
decision of such was reached.”
The former governor urged a former Deputy
National Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode
George, to tell Nigerians the outcome of a recent
meeting of South-West PDP leaders in his
residence in Abuja.