Obasanjo’s men vow to fight sack by PDP

Loyalists of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party have vowed to fight their sack by the National Working Committee of the party.
They vowed to take their grievance to the National Executive Committee of the PDP.
The aggrieved party members, led by the sacked Chairman, Senator Dipo Odujinrin, on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, described their treatment by the NWC as an injustice.
The NWC on Friday threw its weight behind the executive led by Chief Adebayo Dayo.
The faction is backed by prominent businessman, Prince Buruji Kashamu.
Odujinrin, on Saturday after a meeting of his faction, said that the move by the NWC would further polarize the party.
He said: “At our meeting this afternoon, we have resolved in accordance with article 31 sub-sections 2(8) of our constitution to appeal to the National Executive Committee of the party, which is the much higher body than the National Working Committee, and we believe that our appeal to that body would receive a favourable consideration and this injustice is corrected.
“I believe that the NEC will do the right thing so that it would not affect the fortune of our party in future elections.
“We received with shock, the pronouncement of the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh, in the newspapers this morning.
“I found it very disturbing because we saw the signs during the week when we observed that J.K Gadzama (SAN), issued a notice of discontinuance of the appeals against the court cases which the National Publicity Secretary referred to as reasons, which the committee used to take their decision.
“It was very obvious that the appeals were going against the Buruji Kashamu group and if you all recall, in an attempt to stop one of the appeals, the Bayo Dayo group wrote a petition in which he alleged that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo gave money to Chief Afe Babalola to bribe Court of Appeal justices who were going to sit on the appeal on that day and that made the Appeal Court to excuse themselves from the matter.
“If the appeal has been heard, the whole situation would have been different but in order not to allow the appeal to be heard, that was why the National Working Committee withdrew the appeal suddenly and was now able to use the ruling that were subsisting in taking their decision, which they said they took two days ago.
“We put our faith in the National Executive Committee of PDP and trust that the right thing will be done.
“I don’t think that this is how to ensure genuine reconciliation; this has further polarized the situation.
“The fact that the appeals were withdrawn smelt some rat.
“There were some sinister motive behind withdrawing the appeals, which we were on course to win at the Court of Appeal.”