Politics
Presidential rally: Yoruba group urges Osun residents to troop out, give Tinubu/Shettima rousing welcome
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
As Tinubu/Shetima Presidential Campaign train moves to Osun State today (Thursday), a sociocultural group, Yoruba Progressives Forum (YPF) has urged residents of the state to give the All Progressives Congress APC (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu a rousing welcome.
The group specifically charged Yorubas to come out en masse to welcome Tinubu whom it described as a true son of Oduduwa.
According to a statement signed by the National Coordinator of the group, Alhaji AbdulLateef Olalekan, the group said it is an honour to join the Osun State Coordinator of APC Presidential Campaign Council PCC Committee, Gboyega Oyetola, and the good people of Osun state to welcome the APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima; National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and other leaders and members of the presidential campaign council to Osun State.
Olalekan said, ”I’m aware that, like all the states already visited, the mission of the campaign council is to come and speak to our people, to convince them to vote for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25 presidential election, but for us in Osun, Asiwaju is not a new face.
“Our people are quite familiar with Asiwaju’s deep relationship with the State. His personal generosity, both to many indigines as individuals and to the state as a whole, is unprecedented.
“We want to appeal to residents of the state to come out en masses and give our own president to be, a rousing welcome.
“Tinubu’s presidential ambition is a collective project and a task which every Nigerians, especially Yorubas, must work towards its realization.
“However, we want to charge the residents of Osun to desist from any action capable of causing mayhem before, during and after his visit to the state.
“Also, we want to use this opportunity to enjoin Osun residents and Nigeria as a whole to please support Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his vice Kazeem Shetima to triumph in the coming February 25 election because they are capable of taking the country to a promised land.”
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Emmanuel Agbo emerges as DG PDP Governors’ Forum
Former Deputy National Secretary, DNS, and frontline national chairmanship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Emmanuel Agbo has been appointed as the Director General of PDP Governor’s Forum.
This was announced by the Chairman of PDP Governors Forum, Alhaji Bala Mohammed, during the BoT meeting of the party in Abuja on Thursday.
Agbo is expected to assist in repositioning the PDP-GF to play its role in nation building under the leadership of the Chairman, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State.
He is a former Chairman of Benue State chapter of the PDP, an engineer and an experienced party administrator.
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Court declines to vacate order restraining Secondus, Omehia, Opara from PDP meetings
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed applications by former Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, and two others, seeking to set aside an order restraining them from attending meetings of the leadership of the party.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that sacked Governor of Rivers, Celestine Omehia, and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Austin Opara, were also affected with the order.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in separate rulings, dismissed the three separate applications filed by the trio on the ground that their motions for stay of execution of the order were wrongly filed and therefore, incompetent.
NAN reports that the judge had, on April 5, issued ex-parte orders, which among others, restrain the three PDP chieftains from attending any meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) and/or Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party.
Justice Ekwo restrained them from participating in deliberations or proceedings of the meetings in any manner pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
The restraining orders were made in relation to three substantive suits filed against the three chieftains of the PDP by some members of the party in Rivers State.
NAN reports that the suit against Secondus and seven others, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/440/2024 was filed by Titus Jones.
The second against Omehia and five others, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/436/2024 was filed by Precious Wobisike, while the third, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/438/2024 against Opara and seven others, was filed by Chisa Amadi.
Secondus, Omehia and Opara had applied that the execution of the orders be stayed pending the determination of the appeals they filed, challenging the ex-parte orders.
In the three different rulings on Thursday, Justice Ekwo described the applications as incompetent.
He held that under Order 26(9)(1) of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules (FHCCPR) 2019, what Secondus, Omehia and Opara ought to do was to apply to the court to either vary or discharge the orders, not to apply for stay.
The judge said: “By Order 26 (9) (1) of the FHCCPR 2019, it is provided that where an order is made on a motion ex -parte, any person affected by it may, within seven days after service of it, or within such further time as the court shall allow, apply to the court by motion to vary or discharge it.
“The first defendant/applicant ought to have familiarise himself with the provisions of the rules of this court before embarking on this course.
“What any person, who is affected by ex-parte order of the Federal High Court has to do is provided for in Order 26(9)(1) of the FHCCPR 2019.
“There is no law which provides for appeal against ex-parte order of the Federal High Court.
“It is trite that where there is no law in support of a process or action such process or action is considered as abuse of process of court.
“I find that there is no iota of law in support of this application and I so hold.
“The consequence thereof also has been stated by the court in a very steady manner.
“I therefore make an order dismissing this application for being an abuse of process of this court,” Justice Ekwo said in the ruling on the application by Secondus.
Justice Ekwo reached the same conclusions in respect of similar applications by Omehia and Opara.
The judge then adjourned until April 25 for hearing of a pending motions on notice for interim injunctions filed by the plaintiffs in the three cases.
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