PDP Crisis: Oladipo Seeks Buhari, CJN Intervention

The embattled former National Secretary of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Wale
Oladipo, has asked President Muhammadu
Buhari and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),
Justice Mahmud Mohammed, to wade into the
judicial altercation trailing the court actions
instituted by the warring factions.
He said President Buhari should step in to save
the judiciary from the “imminent danger of
being infiltrated and controlled by politicians”.
He spoke against the backdrop of the many
conflicting orders and judgments emanating
from different divisions of the Federal High
Court and the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) as they relate to the leadership
crisis rocking the PDP.
In a statement he issued in Abuja on Sunday,
Oladipo said it was worrisome that after parties
have been served court processes and have
joined issues, they rush to another court where
they get pliable judges to grant them ex-parte
orders and conflicting orders and judgments
within days.
“This ugly trend began with the Hon. Justice
Mohammed Liman of the Port Harcourt Division
of the Federal High Court. He granted an
exparte order in respect of the same issues and
parties on the 23rd of May, 2016, twelve (12)
days after the Federal High Court, Lagos, had
become seized of the matter and made orders
which forbid the PDP from conducting any
election into the offices of the National
Chairman, National Secretary and National
Auditor occupied by the 1st (Sheriff), 2nd (Prof.
Wale Oladipo) and 3rd plaintiffs (Alhaji Fatai
Adeyanju) respectively pending the
determination of the substantive suit.
“The same court granted an order restraining
the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) from monitoring and/or recognizing the
conduct of any election by the 2nd Defendant/
Respondent (PDP) into the offices of the
National Chairman, National Secretary and
National Auditor occupied by the 1st (Sheriff),
2nd (Prof. Wale Oladipo) and 3rd Plaintiffs
(Alhaji Fatai Adeyanju) respectively pending the
determination of the substantive suit. Source, This Days