OGUN PDP PRESS STATEMENT 


PURPORTED CARETAKER COMMITTEE FOR OGUN STATE IS A NULLITY AND CANNOT STAND

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun state under leadership has noted with utter dismay, the purported constitution of a laughable and ridiculous caretaker committee for Ogun state PDP despite the several constitutional and legal correspondences to the National Caretaker Committee of our party to act rightly. 


We are not going to rehash the plethora of such correspondence here because we have done a lot of that in the last few days; which ordinarily should guide the national leadership in taking decisions that are constant with the rule of law especially as it concerns Ogun state, but alas, it has chosen to toe the unfortunate path of illegality and infamy. 


For us in Ogun PDP, we have travelled this road on two consecutive occasions, 2011 with Abubakar Baraje and 2015 with Adamu Muazu as National chairmen respectively. On both occasions, the NWC refused to follow the rule of law but rather chose to accord recognition to impostors with pretensions to leadership of the party in ogun state, due to lack of courage to follow the law or perhaps by inducement. 


Despite susbsisting court judgements and status reports from all relevant authorities validating the legitimate executives at those periods, the NWC opted to act contrary to the law. At the end, the rule of law prevailed on both occasions. At the moment, the Senator Ahmed Makarfi NWC acting on the illegal pronouncement of the National convention announced an indefensible dissolution of Ogun PDP executives. 


We will state for the umpteenth time and for the avoidance of doubt that the National caretaker committee lacks the powers to constitute a caretaker committee for Ogun state [in this instance] because the national convention, despite its apex powers over the party's affairs cannot be supreme to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; which through the judgement of a Federal High Court, has legitimised the State executive committee under my chairmanship.


We have alerted all relevant authorities of this perfidious act and let it be told those who care to listen that not under our watch shall we allow the rule of law to be bastardized. Not under this regime shall impunity and  illegality reign over constitutionality and legality. The action of the National leadership is a nullity and cannot stand the test of justice, equity and fairness. 


Finally, we wish to state unequivocally and without ambiguity that this third attempt at repudiating the sacrosanct offerings of the rule of law  will not stand just like the first two attempt failed. We implore every member of the PDP in Ogun state to go about their regular ward and local government meetings and  disregard the latest gambit as nothing but a temporary distraction and big joke from marauders and deviants. We shall surely overcome. 


Engr Adebayo DAYO 

State Chairman, Ogun PDP. 

24.08.2017