THE crises rocking the
Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, has taken another
twist as the national
leadership of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP
yesterday bowed to Court
judgement, moved against
former President Olusegun
Obasanjo and sacked the
National Auditor, Chief Bode
Mustapha.
According to PDP, Mustapha
who was former President
Obasanjo’s person will be
replaced by Alhaji Fatai
Adewole Adeyanju as the
dully elected National
Auditor in the March 2012
congress.
Rising from its meeting in
Abuja after discussing
Report of the Decision of
PDP NWC on Ogun State
Exco & South West Zone
Exco, the Alhaji Bamanga
Tukur led National Working
Committee, NWC also
approved the removal of the
former governor of Ekiti
State and the National Vice
Chairman, South West, Engr.
Segun Oni, just as the entire
Executive of the South West
Zonal Executive that came
on board March 2012 was
nullified.
Bode Mustapha, Oni and
other South West Executives
were believed to have been
anointed by former
President Obasanjo in March
last year.
The National leadership of
the PDP in a statement
signed by the National
Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh, explained that
as a law abiding institution,
it became imperative to
adhere strictly to the ruling
of the Appeal Court which
had sacked them.
The PDP also yesterday put
in place a 17-member
Caretaker Committee to run
the affairs of South West
Zone of the party. The
Committee which has Ishola
Filani as Chairman, has Chief
Pegba Otemolu as Zonal
Secretary; Adedeji Doherty
as Organizing Secretary;
Rasak Adekonla Akanni as
Auditor; Bolaji Jeje as
Youth Leader; Orimolade
Olanrewaju as Treasurer;
Olawunmi Oshinmoluke
Yuba, as Woman Leader;
Banji Obasanmi as Financial
Secretary; Barrister Shola
Oludipe, as Legal Adviser;
Lawal Waheed Olatunde as
Publicity Secretary;
Emmanuel Oladejo as – Ex-
Officio; Olalekan Abubakar
as Ex-Officio; Seun
Adesanya, as Ex-Officio;
Samiu Babatunde, as Ex-
Officio; Prince Tope
Ademiluyi, as Ex-Officio;
Tunde Olowofoyeku, as Ex-
Officio and Prince Omoniyi
Alo, as another Ex-Officio.
The statement read,
‘’The National Working
Committee (NWC) of the
Peoples Democratic Party
has announced the
constitution of a Caretaker
Committee to pilot the
affairs of the South West
Zone of the Party pending
the conduct of the Zonal
Congresses. The 17 member
committee is headed by
Barrister Ishola Filani as
Zonal Chairman.’’
The removal of Mustapha is
coming more than eight
months after Justice Charles
Archibong of the Federal
High Court in Lagos voided
his appointment as the
National Auditor of the PDP
on the grounds that he was
not qualified for the office
and against the backdrop
that he was not a Chartered
Accountant.
It will also be recalled that
Justice Charles Archibong
had ordered that the PDP,
its National Chairman, Dr.
Bamanga Tukur, and the
then National Secretary,
Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola
to appoint Alhaji Fatai
Adewole Adeyanju, being a
qualified chartered
accountant and nominated
for the office at the state
congress of the party in
Ogun State.
The court further ordered
the nullification of the last
Southwest zonal congress
of the party and ordered the
party, Tukur and Oyinlola to
give access and right of
participation at a fresh
congress to the delegates
elected by the Soremi-led
executive and accept for
offices zoned to the
Southwest, only the
nominees of the Soremi
Executive.
This verdict of the court was
based on a suit filed by Chief
Adebayo Dayo, and Alhaji
Semiu Sodipo, for
themselves and on behalf of
the Ogun State Executive
Committee of the PDP. The
suit numbered: FHC/L/
CS/347/2012 had PDP,
Bamanga Tukur, Olagunsoye
Oyinlola and Bode Mustapha
as defendants.
Metuh’s statement read,
"following protracted
dispute on the Ogun State
and South West Zonal Exco
of the party, a series of suits
were filed on the matter,
amongst which include FHC/
L/CS/1248/2011, FHC/L/
CS/282/2012 and FHC/L/
CS/347/2012.
"
That Chief Bode
Mustapha is removed from
office as the National
Auditor of the Peoples
Democratic Party; That
Alhaji Fatai Adewole
Adeyanju is the validly
elected National Auditor of
the Peoples Democratic
Party; ‘’That the Peoples
Democratic Party is to
rectify its records by
deleting the name of Chief
Bode Mustapha as National
Auditor and replacing the
same with Alhaji Fatai
Adewole Adeyanju; That the
South West Zonal Congress
of the Peoples Democratic
Party conducted in March
2012 is nullified;
"That the Executive
Committee constituted for
the PDP in Ogun State at
Congresses conducted by
the Bashorun Dayo Soremi
led harmonized Executive
Committee for the Wards,
Local Governments and in
the State in March 2012 are
valid Exco of the Party at the
various levels in Ogun State
and are entitled to their 4-
years tenure (the State Exco
list is attached herewith);
"
That the PDP is to
organize a fresh South West
Zonal Congress at which
access is to be given to
delegates elected at
congresses conducted by or
under the supervision of the
Soremi-led Ogun State
Executive and accept the
candidacy, for offices zoned
to Ogun State, of only the
persons nominated at the
said congresses for the said
offices.
"The National working
Committee of the Party met
on 14th February 2013 and
gave careful consideration
to the issues and decided
that, in line with respect to
the rule of law which is a
cardinal principle of the
present administration, the
PDP as a law abiding party,
will immediately comply
with the said judgment. This
is all the more so that same
has not been set aside or
reversed by any superior
court."

Tukur wants to destroy PDP
— Obasanjo’s faction
The faction of the Peoples
Democratic Party(PDP) in
Ogun State“believed to be
loyal to former President
Olusegun Obasanjo
on“yesterday described
the step taken by the
National Working
Committee, NWC,“which
sacked its executive as a
plan to destroy the party.“
Reacting to the press
statement issued by the
PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh
announcing the replacement
of “Obasanjo’s faction
of the state executive with
Kashamu’s faction ,“and
the removal of Bode
Mustapha as the National
Auditor ,the“factional
State Secretary, Dapo
Adeyemi said they were yet
to be“formally
informed.“
Adeyemi said “the news
came to us and others
through verbal report,the
state chapter is yet to be
informed officially, but, if
that is the position of the
national body, it is a good
signal to the growthof the
party. We just heard about it
some 20minutes ago, we
have not heard it officially.
Whatever the national
leadership deems fit, let
them go ahead. If they want
to destroy the party, let
them go ahead, let them
continue, no problem,”the
party scribe stated.
Adeyemi said that ironically,
the national working
committee of the party
“had not contributed a
penny to the success and
administration of the party,
since inception.“
However, the Buruji
Kashamu faction of the
party in its reaction said,
“the party was now
following the rule of law,
with the latest
development“
The factional Chairman said
that with the new
development,”the party
was ready to regain its lost
glory."
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