The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has dragged former Governor Rauf Aregbesola earlier than the Federal Excessive Courtroom, sitting in Osogbo for allegedly making a faction inside the social gathering.
An assistant secretary of the Osun APC, Waheed Adeniran, in an affidavit in help of the Originating Summons filed by the social gathering’s lawyer, Ayodele Kusamotu, urged the court docket to declare Aregbesola’s formation of a bunch known as Omoluabi Caucus, an act of anti-party.
The go well with marked FHC/OS/CS/1/2024 additionally has the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee as a defendant.
Additionally joined as defendants had been a former member of the Home of Representatives, Rasheed Afolabi, and Mr. Lani Baderinwa, who served in Aregbesola’s cupboard because the Commissioner for Info.
The Osun APC desires 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 every other individuals associating with them of their factional and parallel political group or affiliation for the aim of inaugurating or constituting the Govt Council or Committee of the plaintiff at any degree or nominating candidates for any elective positions underneath the provisions of the Structure the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) within the title or on the platform of the plaintiff.”
The plaintiff can also be in search of “an order prohibiting the unlawful factional and parallel affiliation of the 2nd-4th defendants launched as Omoluabi Progressives (APC) in comparable or identical title of the plaintiff impersonating the plaintiff’s registered emblem, image and slogan to perform as a political group.
“Basic damages of N5m collectively or severally towards the 2nd-4th defendants in favour of the plaintiff.”
When contacted for a response, Mr Lowo Adebiyi, who’s the the chief of the Omoluabi Caucus backed by Aregbesola, stated, “We’ve not been served and after they serve us, we are going to react accordingly.”
The PUNCH experiences that the Osun APC was plunged into contemporary turmoil final yr in August after Aregbesola launched what he known as the Omoluabi Caucus of the Osun APC in Ilesa.
Members of the caucus had been drawn from every of the 332 wards within the state and had been represented by 5 members from every of the native governments within the state on the launch of the group.
Talking on the launch of the caucus, Aregbesola, insisted that the Omoluabi Caucus was not a faction of the APC, however a bunch of founding members of the social gathering.
However Osun APC management, in a press release by its chairman, Mr. Tajudeen Lawal, in response to the event, warned members of the social gathering towards becoming a member of Aregbesola’s Omoluabi Caucus.
“What knowledgeable the formation of a bunch by Aregbesola now when there isn’t any election across the nook?” APC queried.
“It’s disheartening and disgusting that Aregbesola might stoop so low to have relegated himself to a sectional APC chief in Ilesa,” the assertion partly learn.