Oyetola Judgment: PDP Ponders Court Action To Disqualify Tinubu

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is mulling going to court to disqualify Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC on the wings of the court judgment that nullified the candidature of Gboyega Oyetola as the APC governorship candidate in Osun State.

National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba made this assertion at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday on the claim that the same principle that led to the disqualification of Oyetola was applicable to Tinubu.

According to him the illegality of the role of Mai Mala Buni as chairman of the APC Caretaker committee when he was also governor of Yobe State flowed from Section 183 of the Electoral Act.

He said: “Mai Mala Bala was assumed to be Chairman of the APC and the laws say that if you are an executive governor you cannot double as Chairman. This has led the court to nullify the candidacy of the Governor of Osun State, Oyetola.

“The same Mai Mala Buni was the caretaker chairman that sponsored the nomination of Tinubu. We are saying that if the process that sponsored the nomination of the presidential candidate of the APC was illegal, then the nomination of Bola Tinubu is illegal, null and void.”

But asked if the party would go to court to disqualify Tinubu, he, however, pulled back saying that “the PDP will not announce whether we are going to court. When we want to go to court, you will know.”

On the unity of the PDP, given the ongoing differences between the Wike camp and the Ayu camp, he said, “You mistake Atiku to be PDP. Atiku is a product of PDP. I understand that Nigerians are legitimately concerned for the party but reconciliation is not a 100m dash, it is a marathon.”

Ologunagba said the moves made by Atiku to reconcile Wike to the party have shown Nigerians that Atiku was a unifier.

“Nigerians have accepted Atiku as a unifier, The multiple actions of the Board of Trustees, National Working Committee, and Atiku have given Nigerians reasons to trust us to bring all party members together.  You will begin to see more actions. The NWC and the BoT are working. We are united, you saw that play out at the book launch of Solomon Lar,” he added.

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