PDP ASK COURT TO JAIL BARAJE ,OYINLOLA

The Peoples Democratic Party has asked a
Federal High Court, Abuja, to commit to
prison the New PDP officials led by Alhaji
Kawu Baraje for alleged contempt of court.
The PDP under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur also
urged the court to jail the Baraje-led
faction's National Secretary, Prince
Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Dr. Sam Jaja.
The three had sued Tukur; the Deputy
National Chairman, Uche Secondus; National
Women
Leader, Dr. Kema Chikwe; and
National Publicity Olisah Metuh.
The Tukur faction in response to the Baraje
faction's court action, filed the contempt
suit against the three on Wednesday.
Counsel for Tukur's PDP, Mr. Ajibola
Oluyede, who made the court papers
available to journalists at a briefing in
Lagos, said he was directed by the faction
to file the contempt suit..
Oluyede also added that he had also filed a
preliminary objection against the suit filed
by the Baraje faction at a Lagos High Court,
Ikeja.
Baraje and his faction had filed the suit
seeking an order to restrain Tukur and
other members of his executive council
from further parading themselves as
officials of the PDP.
But the Tukur faction, through its newly-
filed contempt suit, is seeking to jail Baraje,
Oyinlola and Jaja for a minimum of one
year each for allegedly violating a
judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The judgment was said to have been
delivered on January 11, 2013 in a suit
tagged FHC/ABJ/504/2013.
The contempt suit was filed on behalf of
the Tukur faction by Chief Adedayo Dayo
and Semiu Sodipo, who had initiated the
suit which its judgment was allegedly
flouted by the Baraje group.
Dayo and Sodipo had filed the suit on
which judgment was delivered on January
11, for themselves and the Executive
Committee of the party in Ogun State.
The alleged contemnors were said to have
violated the judgment of the Federal High
Court, which nullified Oyinlola's candidacy
as a nominee of the South-West Zonal
Chapter of the PDP.
The Tukur's PDP said Oyinlola, "with guilty
knowledge" "appointed and declared"
himself as the National Secretary of the PDP
"for the purpose of rendering the
judgment of the Federal High Court
nugatory."
The faction alleged that Oyinlola conspired
with Baraje and Jaja to take actions in
violation of the court's judgment and by so
doing,
"obstructed the administration of
justice."
The applicants said the alleged contemnors
acted to subvert the appeal filed by
Oyinlola against the Federal High Court's
judgment by taking it upon themselves to
overrule the judgment and appoint
Oyinlola to the office.
"The alleged contemnors have, since the
delivery of the said judgment, committed
additional acts of criminal contempt by
conspiring to flout the purpose of the
court as pronounced in its said judgment
and the authority of the court in so
pronouncing," the applicants said.

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