PDP Resorts To Intimidating Tribunal Judges
Apr 27th, 2010 | By Bankole Alao David | Category: NEWS
The desperation of the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to remain glued to its stolen mandate by hook or crook means seems to have reached a climax, as the leadership of the party has allegedly resulted to intimidation of the judges of the Election Petition Retrial Tribunal, sitting in Osogbo, the state capital.
To make good its plan to intimidate the tribunal judges, the ruling party had used one of its governorship aspirants, Senator Iyiola Omisore to go to the Royal Palace Hotel , Ilobu where the judges were lodged under the guise of holding a political meeting with some selected PDP local government chairmen within Osun Central Senatorial District of the state.
The PDP leaders, OSUN DEFENDER gathered, deliberately chose the hotel for the kangaroo meeting in disguise to indirectly intimidate the tribunal members, with a view not to arouse any suspicion that the tribunal judges were the target.
Among those at the meeting were Omisore and his supporters, the Deputy State Chairman of the party, Otunba Sunday Ojo-Williams; Chairman, Irewole Local Government Council Area, Chief Lere Oyewumi; the party chairman, Ife-South Local Council Area, Akin Famuyide a.k.a Jaguu and some other notable leaders of the party in the senatorial district.
It would be recalled that the PDP had recently suspended all political activities of any of the party candidates due to the crisis rocking the party lately, a situation which suggested that the meeting had a purpose.
According to a reliable source, when the leadership of the state chapter of the PDP discovered that it had failed in its several attempts to compromise the tribunal judges, it decided to start intimidating the judges with a view to creating fear in them.
At a nocturnal meeting held in Osogbo, the PDP state chapter with governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the state chairman of the party, Mr Ademola Rasaq among others in attendance, earlier before the kangaroo meeting at the Royal Palace Hotel, the option of intimidation of the judges was arrived at.
It was agreed at the meeting that if the option of intimidation of the tribunal judges was executed, they (the Judges) might be afraid of being attacked and give a judgment in favour of Oyinlola and the PDP.
Though, no trouble was caused at the Royal Palace Hotel where the kangaroo meeting was held, security operatives attached to the hotel, suspecting a foul play, were however found to have put themselves on alert.
Meanwhile, it was learnt that when those in charge of the purported meeting went to pay for the venue at the hotel, it was not disclosed as at that time the actual purpose for which they wanted to use the hall, as they only told the receptionist that some of their party ward chairmen wanted to hold a meeting at the venue.
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The case of the people that gathered at the Royal Palace Hotel is like that of a sinking man who will hold on to anything at sight including ripples. Whatever step they may take, they are fighting a lost battle.
God will not help pdp at any point.