Face Off in Osun APC as Party Drags Aregbesola and Others to Court

The fight within the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun state, has taken a new dimension, as the party dragged a former governor of the state and immediate past minister of interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to court for his roles in the creation of a faction in the party.

The APC wants the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo to stop Aregbesola from leading suspended members of the party in his newly launched Omoluabi Progressives, as a political group within the larger Osun State APC. Aregbesola unveiled the new group last week.

The APC asks the court to give “an order prohibiting the illegal factional and parallel association of the 2nd-4th defendants launched as Omoluabi Progressives (APC) in similar or same name of the plaintiff impersonating the plaintiff’s registered logo, symbol and slogan to function as a political group.

Also requested from the court is “an order of perpetual injunction restraining the 1st defendant from attending or recognising or accepting any congress or convention held or to be held by the 2nd -4th defendants and any other persons associating with them in their factional and parallel political group or association for the purpose of inaugurating or constituting the Executive Council or Committee of the plaintiff at any level or nominating candidates for any elective positions under the provisions of the Constitution the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) in the name or on the platform of the plaintiff.”

The party listed Aregbesola and three others, including the Independent National Electoral Commission, Rasheed Afolabi and Lani Baderinwa, Aregbesola’s loyalist and former Commissioner for Information in the state as defendants in the suit, while asking the court to approve damages to the tune of Five Million Naira against the 2nd-4th Defendants in favour of the party.

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