The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has strongly condemned the lawsuit instituted by those the party called ‘some agents of darkness’ to stop the inauguration of Osun state Governor-elect, former Senator Ademola Adeleke on Sunday.
Describing this as an ‘evil move’ , it was also called ‘a failed distraction against the will of the people’.
The party submitted that ‘some paid agents of destabilization’ had approached the Federal High Court, Osogbo on Friday seeking an order to stop the swearing-in ceremony scheduled to hold on Sunday, adding that His lordship, Justice Emmanuel, ‘in his wisdom declined granting the order, adjourning the case until Tuesday to explain why they want the inauguration ceremony to be stopped’ .
‘It beats our imagination that any sound mind can even contemplate halting a democratic constitutional process’ , the State Caretaker Chairman, Dr Akindele Adekunle said in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Thursday.
He added that ‘the greed for power is driving some defeated politicians into electoral insanity’.
‘It is perplexing and truly reprehensible to imagine a repeat of a day when officers of law will apply to destroy the product of a legitimate electoral process. It is not just sad for democracy but equally a task for the legal practitioners disciplinary council to take up.
We call on the legal disciplinary committee to summon the affected lawyers for a possible disciplinary action. There must be a red line. To surrender oneself as a tool to destabilize democracy should warrant a disciplinary action from the bar’ he said.
The party commended the judiciary for resisting the pressure from ‘little tyrants who hate the ballot and are prepared to truncate the will of the people’, affirming that ‘the judiciary in this instance and others has proven to be a protector of the democratic process’.
‘We commend the amiable Chief Judge of Osun state, the judges across the bench and other officials of the bench. We must all continue to defy agents of darkness in their rabid bid to destroy our nascent democracy’ the statement concluded- Team@orientactualmags.com
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