The crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new turn Tuesday before Justice Abdul Kafarati of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja as the party openly opposed an application by the sacked National Secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, to stop the execution of the judgment which removed him from office.

Counsel to the party, Joe Kyari Gadzama (SAN) Tuesday opposed the application for stay brought by Oyinlola seeking to stay the earlier judgment of the court.

Oyinlola, through his counsel, had prayed the court for a stay of execution of its January 11 judgment removing him from office as national scribe of the ruling party, pending the hearing and determination of an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Abuja. Specifically Oyinlola had argued that the court did not make any order for the benefit of the PDP and so it could not have proceeded to enforce same.

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