The camp of a former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregebsola has been dragged earlier than the Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Osogbo for the alleged factionalisation of the All Progressives Congress, APC, within the State.
The Osun APC additionally urged the court docket to declare the Omoluabi Caucus, a bunch fashioned by Aregebsola as unlawful and an act of anti-party.
This was made recognized by Waheed Adeniran, the Assistant Secretary of the Osun APC, in an affidavit in assist of the Originating Summons filed by the occasion’s lawyer, Ayodele Kusamotu on Monday.
The go well with marked FHC/OS/CS/1/2024 additionally has the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, as a defendant.
A former member of the Home of Representatives, Rasheed Afolabi and Lani Baderinwa, who served in Aregbesola’s cupboard because the Commissioner for Info and Technique, have been additionally joined as defendants.
The Osun APC prayed the court docket to make “an order of perpetual injunction restraining the first defendant from attending or recognising or accepting any congress or conference held or to be held by the 2nd-4th defendants and some other individuals associating with them of their factional and parallel political group or affiliation for the aim of inaugurating or constituting the Government Council or Committee of the plaintiff at any stage or nominating candidates for any elective positions underneath the provisions of the Structure the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) within the identify or on the platform of the plaintiff.”
In addition they sought, “an order prohibiting the unlawful factional and parallel affiliation of the 2nd-4th defendants launched as Omoluabi Progressives (APC) in related or identical identify of the plaintiff impersonating the plaintiff’s registered emblem, image and slogan to operate as a political group.
“Common damages of N5m collectively or severally towards the 2nd-4th defendants in favour of the plaintiff.”
A former Osun APC chairman and chief of the Omoluabi Caucus, Lowo Adebiyi, when contacted stated the group has not been served with any doc from the Federal Excessive Court docket.
In his phrases, “We’ve got not been served and after they serve us, we’ll react accordingly.”
Arogidigba World Journal recollects that after the instant previous Inside Minister, Aregbesola launched the Omoluabi Caucus in Ilesa in August, 2023, the Osun APC had degenerated right into a contemporary spherical of disaster.
Previous to the Osun gubernatorial and common elections, The Osun Progressives, TOP, was fashioned by Aregbesola, which many noticed as a rival to the IleriOluwa group of the instant previous state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola.