• Asks court to declare ex-gov’s caucus group illegal, unfit to hold congress
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun State chapter, has sued former Governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola, before a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo for allegedly causing factions within the party.
The opposition party in the state, through its counsel, Ayodele Kusamotu, Yemi Akingbade, R. Oloyede and B. Nwayen, asked the court to declare that the former governor could not validly lead suspended members of the party and other persons associating with them to launch a factional political and parallel group named Omoluabi Progressives within the party.
The APC in the state contended that the said launching of a factional political group within the party with the use of the party’s logo, symbol and slogan was considered to have contravened Nigeria’s Constitution and that of the party.
It said that Aregbesola had no constitutional power to launch a factional group within the party and thereby sought an order of the court to proscribe and prohibit the factional group within APC in Osun State.
The party also asked the court to restrain Aregbesola and his supporters from further forming any factional group or parallel association within the party.
This was contained in suit No. FHC/OS/CS/1/2024.
In the suit, the APC joined Aregbesola and three others, including the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Rasheed Olalekan Afolabi and Lani Baderinwa, Aregbesola’s loyalist and former Commissioner for Information in the state.
The court process in the originating summons which was dated January 4, 2024, was obtained yesterday by The Guardian.
