BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 27, (THEWILL) – The Umaru Dikko-led National Disciplinary Committee of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday passed a guilty verdict on Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Dr. Sam Sam Jaja as it recommended their sack from the party.
The committee’s recommendation was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Chief Ebenezer Babatope.
Babatope however said the case of Senator Ibrahim Kazaure who was also suspended alongside the trio, had been deferred for one month. He said Kazaure would still have to appear before the committee on December 10 to clarify certain issues relating to his case.
The three leaders of the factional New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) were suspended on November 11 for what the leadership of the ruling party described as anti -party activities. Baraje was the national chairman of the New PDP, Jaja was his deputy while Oyinlola was the national secretary of the Baraje faction.
Oyinlola has been at loggerheads with the leadership of the PDP over the latter’s failure to reinstate him as the party’s national secretary.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja had on November 6, ordered the PDP to reinstate Oyinlola as the national secretary of the party but the party suspended him instead.
In his reaction to the recommendation, Oyinlola insisted that he remained the national secretary of the PDP, saying his expulsion holds no ground .
