The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has said it would proceed with the governorship primary slated for Tuesday to pick its flagbearer for the July 16 election.

The Sunday Bisi-led faction of the party, while reacting to the restraining order of an Osun State High Court sitting in Ijesa Ijesa, which directed it to use the list of ward executives elected during the 25th September, 2021 congress, made this known on Saturday.

One Adedokun Ademola and 30 others had, on behalf of other ward executives elected on September 25, 2021, at the ward Congress of the PDP, supervised by ex Osun chairman of the party, Soji Adagunodo, dragged before the party and the Independent National Electoral Commission before the court seeking order recognising them as the authentic delegates that would elect the party’s governorship flag bearer.

After the reading of the motion ex parte and the affidavit filed by Adedokun through his cousel, Edmund Biriomoni, the court, presided over by Justice A. Aderibigbe, ordered that, “Mandatory interim injunction of this court is granted, recognising the ward executives elected on September 25, 2021, in the following wards listed as (a) – (y) on this application as the only authentic and/or authorised elected ward executive officers permitted to vote as delegates at the party’s governorship primary scheduled to hold on March 8, 2022, State Assembly primary, National Assembly primary, Presidential primary respectively, in full compliance with the judgement of the court delivered on November 22, 2021 affirming all actions taken by Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo, taken as the only valid and lawful actions while he was the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Osun State chapter, which include conduct of ward executive congress on September 25, 2021, pending the determination of motion on notice.”

However, speaking with Sunday PUNCH, Oladele Oluwabamiji, the PDP Director of Media and Publicity in the state, said the party would proceed with the Tuesday primary relying on Supreme Court decision, which says the court cannot dabble into the internal affairs of a political party.

He said, “Such an injunction does not hold water, as far as we are concerned. A Supreme Court declaration about it is very clear that court cannot dabble into the internal affairs of political party.

We know some elements in the party are just trying to carry out some hatchet job for the APC and they don’t want us to have candidate in the coming election. But we are moving ahead of them. The national body of our party will handle (issue of injunction) and react appropriately. We are going ahead with our primaries on Tuesday.”

FreeStuffsNG:
They will lose las las. They better think twice
Osun PDP is in a class of its own in terms of mediocrity. They will do all the mudslinging among themselves and still end up with a mediocre candidate.

Johnnyessence:
lol Na you go lose las las. The delegates lists will be published in the newspaper today. Imole de okunkun parada ni gbogbo ipinle Osun. Senator Ademola Adeleke is a goal. No time to waste time.

FreeStuffsNG:

Hakika!! See as I am watching how you are doing your usual PDP macabre dance.
You should go and read what happened to Zamfara APC. If the press is publishing that the congress is going on despite court order, face the media and provide reasons to enlighten others that it is not true.

Paying for ad in the newspaper will not impose a fait accompli on the court o. You want to build illegality upon illegality shey? Ekun Egbere. Senator Ademola Adeleke is a goal.

You will lose las. In fact, right now, it is PDP vs PDP on one side and PDP vs Court on the other hand. Yet your opponent, the incumbent , is already campaigning and consolidating.

Johnnyessence:
Dear Osun PDP Delegates,

Once in a lifetime Opportunity comes our way and if we let that opportunity go away we'll regret it later in life and once the time has gone by, it never comes back again. What we are today is the result of what actions we took yesterday and what we are going to be tomorrow will depend on what we do today.

Osun PDP primary election is coming up next week and we are confident that the primary is going to be free and fair under the leadership of Iyorcha Ayu. Here is a life changing opportunity for you and Osun state, we must not let it go by.

Senator Ademola Adeleke toweringly stands out to be the only redoubtable and viable alternative. We all witness the massive development in Osun west as a Senator for less than 2 years. Let's vote massively for him just like we did in 2018 and he shall make haste to the yearnings and aspiration of all and sundry without discrimination or prejudice. Resetting the incongruous and moribund administrative functioning is definitely the reason for our crave for liberation.

For a better Osun State, Vote Senator Nurudeen Jackson Ademola Adeleke Imole.

Imole de
Okunkun parada
Akogun de
Irorun de
PDP! Power!!

Mintum:
The school injunction by that puppet judge in osun is not worth the paper it was written on. The NJC needs to sanction that puppet judge

FreeStuffsNG:

Hakika!! See as I am watching how you are doing your usual PDP macabre dance.

You should go and read what happened to Zamfara APC. If the press is publishing that the congress is going on despite court order, face the media and provide reasons to enlighten others that it is not true.

Paying for ad in the newspaper will not impose a fait accompli on the court o. You want to build illegality upon illegality shey?

You will lose las. In fact, right now, it is PDP vs PDP on one side and PDP vs Court on the other hand. Yet your opponent, the incumbent , is already campaigning and consolidating.

justosee:

I don't think there is a court order stopping the primary. The only order is to recognise another faction of the party against the one acceptable to the national leadership of the PDP.

Johnnyessence:
THE POLITICAL REALITY OF THE MOMENT IN PDP OSUN STATE
( written by Barrister Rotimi John Adeyenuwo)

Whoever that is calling himself Oloto 1 should go and study Law in University to qualify him to be abreast of Procedural Law being taught in the Nigeria Law School.
Law is not a field a nonentity can brag to have solutions to all the problems arising therefrom.
If there is anybody in Anigba Group emboldening you that there are rays of light at the end of tunnel for your group,just tell the person to stop misleading you.
In Law,there are rules and precepts to follow in determining a case. Any attempt to cut corners to arrive at justice as in the instant case will be rebuffed.
For the sake of people your post may want to confuse,let me try to throw light on the subject matter for clarity sake.

RIGHTING THE OBSERVABLE WRONGS IN ANIGBA GROUP MISCONCEPTION OF THE LAW

Let me start by saying the just passed Electoral Amendment Act 2022 is not ambiqous in its interpretation.
When your Anigba Group brought this spurious injunction yesterday to confuse members of the public,intelligent people on our side swing into action to diffuse the tension it engendered by enlightening the whole public that your group are just talking gas without recourse to Law.
If we are not conversant with the new Electoral Law as amended,you would have hold us into ransom with your Anigba Group's intention to force us into reconciliation in line with your concluding paragraph of your post here that "lts time to come together and win together, l stand with PDP".
Bi egungun ba mon pe oun ti n pada bo wa di eniyan ni,iwonba lo ma roro mon ninu eeku egungun.

If your Anigba Group believe in Section (13) of Electoral Amendment Act 2022, you won't be running from pillar to post trying to procure a useless State High Court injunction based on ex-parte motion all about.
Stricto sensus,Section(13) of the Electoral Amendment Act 2022 says "Nothing in this section shall empower the courts to stop the holding of primaries ...".
Not that the word "Shall" as quoted in this section is the operating word in the provision.
If it is dawn on your group that you are handcuffed by this mandatory clause,that should not give you the impression that "IMOLE SUPPORTERS are making a great mistake with a section of Electoral Law they are circling and circulating" as you claimed in your write-up.

Let me tell you that we have studied this provision clearly well before we come on the air space to rubbish your kangaroo or worse still Jankara injunction.
Section(12) of thesame provision commands an aspirant or a group of aspirants as in your Anigba Group case to seek redress in the Federal High Court.
If your leaders are not bent on ruining your political lives,they should have thinkback before rushing to an obscure State High Court somewhere in Ijebu-Jesa to procure a filthy injunction.
Accepting the fact that "COURT doesn't stop TEUSDAY's primary election as you are now claiming here is an afterthought of your group feelings.
We know you are playing with your testis. Now that its skin has broken,it remains your problem.
Your Anigba Group will contend with that falsehood for a long time out of stupidity.

Concerning the second leg of your assumption that the "Court only nullified Kangaroo Ward excos under the leadership of Sunday Bisi and approved ward congresses conducted under the leadership of the former State Chairman of the Party,Olasoji Adagunodo for Tuesday March 8th,2022 governorship primary,2023 House of Representatives primaries,House of Assembly primaries, House of Senate and State Party Congresses, let me point it out to you that the claim is the figment of your group's imagination. When has it become the duty of courts to usurp the functions of a well structured political party such as PDP?
Let me clear your ignorance by saying that Soji Adagunodo had been removed from office as the State Chairman by the decision of the National Working Committee which was later ratified by NEC at the Party's Convention as the time the Congresses were held..
In order to fill up the vacancy,Sunday Bisi was appointed by the NWC on the recommendation of Osun PDP State Working Committee. This decision was also ratified by the NEC of the Party at the convention.
If you are a true,patriotic, committed and loyal member(s) of PDP,you ought to have known that the decision is sine die.
There is no point challenging the decision.
There is no court in the land that can meddle in the internal matter of the party again.
That is the import of the Supreme Court Judgement when it says "no court can intervene in internal mechanism of political parties"

Let me reiterate the fact that,the ward executives conducted by PDP in 215 wards out of 332 wards in Osun State in 2021 when Sunday Bisi is still the State Chairman,the 3 ad-hoc delegates in all the 332 wards of the state conducted last week by His Excellency Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and his principles team that had been ratified by the NWC, and other statutory delegates are the only authentic delegates that will be allowed to vote for the PDP governorship candidate on 8th March,2022 at Osogbo City Stadium.
If you still hold on such untenable assumption of Soji Adagunodo's list,you are just wasting your time.
When the National Working Committee of PDP will be sending officials to conduct the party primaries from Abuja,would they send the team to your Anigba Group? You better go and borrow yourself brain and stop your grandstanding through cyber activism.

Let me also say this before concluding my response that ward congresses will be concluded in the remaining 112 wards remaining in Osun, I all 30 local governments and the State shortly after the governorship primary election to put the party on a sound footing in Osun State.

In conclusion,if Oloto 1 as he call himself is still having the misconception that Anigba Group with its arrowhead,Soji Adagunodo is still relevant in PDP Osun politics,you are all living in the past.
Your posterior masters from Oyo State cannot save you from this embarrassing reality you found yourself.

FreeStuffsNG:

Hakika!! See as I am watching how you are doing your usual PDP macabre dance.

You should go and read what happened to Zamfara APC. If the press is publishing that the congress is going on despite court order, face the media and provide reasons to enlighten others that it is not true.

Paying for ad in the newspaper will not impose a fait accompli on the court o. You want to build illegality upon illegality shey?

You will lose las. In fact, right now, it is PDP vs PDP on one side and PDP vs Court on the other hand. Yet your opponent, the incumbent , is already campaigning and consolidating.