‘Plan to expel Oyinlola won’t work’

Suspended National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has said that the recommendations of the Umaru Dikko Committee to suspend him and three others will not stand.

Oyinlola said in a statement by his Principal Secretary, Mr. Femi Adelegan, that  “nobody can build something on nothing; and falsehood on truth.”

Oyinlola asserted that the Disciplinary Committee did not exist by virtue of the fact that its composition was not ratified by the National Executive Committee of the PDP which he said was statutorily empowered to approve the composition of the body.

He said, ‘’They really worked to the answer and with a great speed in their feverish ambition of getting rid of Oyinlola before the hearing of his suit at an Abuja Federal High Court, challenging the validity of illegalities.”

The statement  argued that no sane or decent person would be surprised at the recommendations “of the illegally constituted disciplinary committee, which from the outset, shouldered a heavy burden of legitimacy, integrity, lack of respect for fair play, principles of natural justice and the Rule of Law.”

He said it was patently clear, that the Dikko Committee acted under questionable circumstances as if the PDP was a mere mechanical contraption that could be manipulated without respect for laid down rules and regulations.

The statement added that the pronouncement of the Dikko Committee was a comical show of the absurd that could only erode whatever remained of the credibility of anybody who decided to circumvent regulations and rebuff a law court.