Suspended National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has stated that the recommendations of the Umaru Dikko Committee for his expulsion along with three other members will not stand.
Oyinlola said in a statement by his Principal Secretary, Mr. Femi Adelegan, that “nobody can build something on nothing; and falsehood on truth.”
Oyinlola asserted that the Disciplinary Committee did not exist by virtue of the fact that its composition was not ratified by the National Executive Committee of the PDP, which he said was statutorily empowered to approve the composition of the body.
He said, “They really worked to the answer and with great speed in their feverish ambition of getting rid of Oyinlola before the hearing of his suit at an Abuja Federal High Court, challenging the validity of its illegalities.”
The Disciplinary Committee said on Wednesday that it had recommended the expulsion of Oyinlola; former Acting National Chairman PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje; and the former Deputy National Chairman, Dr. Sam Jaja.
The statement said no “sane or decent person” would be surprised at the recommendations “of the illegall-constituted Disciplinary Committee, which from the outset, shouldered a heavy burden of legitimacy, integrity, lack of respect for fair play, principles of natural justice and the Rule of Law.”
He said it was patently clear that the Dikko Committee acted under questionable circumstances as if the PDP were a mere mechanical contraption that could be manipulated without respect for laid down rules and regulations.
The statement added that the pronouncement of the Dikko Committee was “a comical show of the absurd” that could only erode whatever remains of the credibility of anybody who decides to circumvent regulations and rebuff a Law court.
Punch
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