PDP Youths Accuse Olujimi of Working With Fayemi To Destabilize Party in Ekiti
A group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), youths in the South-West,
PDP Youths Congress (PDPYC), has accused the Senator representing
Ekiti South Senatorial District, Biodun Olujimi of working with the
State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi to render the party (PDP) impotent
in the State.
The group, which urged the Federal High Court to exercise restraint
and avoid being used as political tool by the Fayemi-led APC State
government and their ally in the PDP, Senator Olujimi, and by
extension their sponsored plaintiffs, said Congresses are internal
matters of political parties and we wonder the urgency necessitating
at this time of Coronavirus pandemic, an ex-parte application on
ordinary PDP Ward Congresses in Ekiti that have been approved by the
party’s National Working Committee.
The youths said it was funny that Governor Fayemi was approbating and
reprobating at the same time by issuing Executive Order, asking people
to stay at home and at the same time arranging a court sitting to
achieve his clandestine plot to render the PDP impotent in Ekiti.
According to the Convener, Comrade Oluwole Durojaiye, PDPYC, Ekiti
people should hold the State Attorney-General and Commissioner of
Justice, Wale Fapounda, who is the brain behind the hurried tomorrow
sitting of the Federal High Court responsible should there be new
cases of Coronavirus in the State since it is now obvious that
Governor Fayemi won’t mind putting the health of Ekiti people in
danger just to satisfy his political wish.
We are also aware that lawyers will be coming to Ekiti State from
Coronavirus prone States and we wonder why despite the lock down,
Governor Fayemi will allow people to enter the State in the name of a
political matter that has no bearing on the lives of Ekiti people.
We are aware that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko
Muhammad, suspended court sittings in the country till further notice
because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Courts are only expected to sit
on matters that are urgent and time-bound.
We have also been informed that even lawyers in Ado Ekiti, wrote to
the Commissioner of Police through the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA)
Chairman, Olasanmi Falade, raising concern over the planned sitting of
the Federal High Court, and pointing out its implications on the
health of the people as regard the Coronavirus pandemic.
The question now is; of what urgency is an ex-parte application on
Local Government and State Congresses of the PDP in Ekiti that have
been suspended? This is even more so that political gatherings have
been banned in the State and people are more concerned about their
lives.
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