The Unity Party of Nigeria has defended the indefinite suspension of its Chairman and Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Fashehun, saying he is running the party as his private property.

The party, which took the decision to suspend Fashehun at the end of its 4th National Executive Committee held in Abuja, also distanced itself from the suit filed by Fashehun against the Independent National Electoral Commission and its chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, over the controversial additional 30,000 polling units allocated to the North ahead of the 2015 general elections.

The UPN, in a communique read to journalists on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Adedeji Salau, therefore announced the elevation of the former Deputy National chairman of UPN, Dr. Manzo Abubakar, to the position of its acting chairman.

He said, “In his address, Fashehun posited that contrary to the speculation making the round, he did not sue INEC on behalf of UPN but on his right as a Nigerian citizen.

The chairman tried to defend his unsuccessful attempt to postpone the September 19 meeting, which he described as illegal, but which most members of the NEC agreed that had become part of our record as the 3rd NEC meeting of the party.

He said, “He is running the party as his private property. That is what he is doing and we have catalogued his offenses in that regard. He is on suspension and his coming back to the party depends on the NEC. What we are against is his dictatorship.

“The NEC members viewed the September 19 meeting as the mother of this 4th meeting which was presided by the National Chairman since the holding of the 4th meeting was as a result of the resolution passed at the 3rd NEC meeting. But we view his defense as very unsatisfactory.”

The UPN also accused Fashehun of placing an advertorial of his unilaterally appointed Chairmen of the State Caretaker Committees as against the legitimately endorsed NEC list advertised in the newspapers and “viewed the Chairman’s action as on affront and deliberate attempt to denigrate the NEC of the party.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/upn-suspends-fashehun-disowns-inec-polling-units-suit/

I bet Gani Adams is smiling somewhere. Fasehun busy dragging himself through the mud everyday.