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LOKOJA – The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, across the country, took a new dimension as the runner-up in the last Kogi State Congress election, Honourable Sani Gambo has called on security agencies to arrest the self-styled Chairman, Honourable Enemona Anyebe for illegally occupying the office.
This is as he threatened to run a parallel exco and urged the leadership of the PDP to declare him winner and subsequently swear him in to avert impending catastrophe.
Gambo made the submission in a press conference held on Saturday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
He said the purported election that brought Anyebe into office was not only fraudulent but criminal as he was not eligible for the process of the election to have been declared the winner and subsequently sworn in.
Gambo, who was the runner-up in the said election bemoaned the crude manner jointly masterminded by Hon. Anyebe and his sponsors to illegally take over the leadership of PDP in Kogi State.
Accordingly to him, this is even more worrisome that Kogites, Nigerians and the world look up to the PDP to salvage Nigeria from maladministration of the APC government.
“The need for the principle of fairness, justice and equity, to reflect in our conduct and activities particularly as an opposition Political Party must not be compromised.
“We are a Country and people guided by the rule of law and the time to call a spade-a-spade, no matter whose ox is gored is now in Kogi State.
“The last PDP State Congress in Kogi State was free and fair and the outcome well accepted by all the contestants except the office of the State Chairman, where a court order had barred Hon. Enemona Anyebe, the person parading himself as Chairman now from contesting and presenting himself for screening. The Party was asked not to screen him, all because of the court order and ruling that was yet to be vacated before the Congress,” he alleged.
He explained that, contrary to the expectations of the members and supporters of the Party, Enemona Anyebe, the purported State Chairman who was suspended by his Local Government Executives, affirmed by the State Executives in 2019 and again by his Wards Executives in 2024, and confirmed by the court on the account of anti-party activities was surreptitiously sworn in.
He noted that despite these incontrovertible evidences, the incumbent chairman, Enemona Anyebe was illegally smuggled into the election and declared winner.
“His form to contest the election was withdrawn by the Court Order via Suit No. HC/OKP/54M/2024 of the Kogi State High Court.
“We are also aware that Hon. Enemona approached a Kogi State High Court with prayers to vacate the COURT ORDER via Motion Nos. HCL/372M/2024 and HCL/379M/2024 respectively. But his appeals were dismissed.
“That Hon. Enemona Anyebe was declared the winner of an election he was not a participant, but was quickly sworn- in at 9.00a.m. Sunday morning, following a Saturday election he was not supposed to have contested by the strength of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, beats imagination of right thinking people.
He, therefore, called on National Working Committee of the Party, the Secretary, PDP governors forum, NASS members Organising Secretary and Legal Adviser and critical stakeholders to do the needful to safe the party from legal tussle in the future.
He, therefore, disclosed that the inability of the party to swear him in, having emerged as the runner up , he would have no option than to run a parallel State Executive Committee.
