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PDP Lambasts Osun Governorship Aspirant, Babayemi, Withdraws Membership After Supreme Court Ruling On Adeleke

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September 29, 2022

Recall that Babayemi had approached the Election Tribunal seeking disqualification of Adeleke as PDP’s candidate in the party’s gubernatorial primary election. But in its ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Adeleke as the rightful candidate of the party.
 

 

 

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thrown out one of its members, Dotun Babayemi, who challenged the election of Ademola Adeleke, after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Adeleke.
Recall that Babayemi had approached the Election Tribunal seeking disqualification of Adeleke as PDP’s candidate in the party’s gubernatorial primary election. But in its ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Adeleke as the rightful candidate of the party.
Reacting to the judgment, PDP in a statement made available to journalists in Osogbo, the state capital on Thursday by its Osun Caretaker Chairman, Adekunle Akindele, praised the judiciary for living up to its expectation as the house of justice.
Akindele in the statement disclosed that Babayemi had since ceased to be a member of the PDP as he had been expelled from the party, and warned against any accommodation of the expelled politician.
“As we are rejoicing, we must note very strongly that a mole among us who was an active agent of the APC had since lost his membership of PDP. No organ or affiliates of the party should accommodate him or his agenda again within this party.
“Any member of the party who continues to romance the expelled member risks being charged with anti-party activities and may face appropriate sanctions. We must get rid of fifth columnists by descending heavily on them. We must uproot them and cut down their branches,” parts of the statement read.

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