Leaders of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that were expelled from the party by the state executive committee, Saturday, said the party chairman, Chief Idowu Faleye, risked being jailed for alleged contempt of court over their expulsion from the party.
Factional chairman, Tunde Olatunde said the manner through which he and three other state working committee members of the party were expelled had eroded the integrity of the court of law, having gone to Ekiti State High Court to stop the party from taking punitive measures against them.
It will be recalled that the State secretary of the party, Dr Tope Aluko, state auditor; Tunji Olanrewaju and woman leader, Mrs Modupe Oyebode were on Friday expelled from the party by the Faleye group for alleged anti-party activities.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti yesterday, the embattled factional chairman, said Faleye’s expulsion option was a contempt of court as a court process is subsisting, threatening that his group would use all constitutional means to seek redress.
According to him, “shortly after we were suspended, we went to court to challenge our suspension while also asking the court to restrain the party from taking further decision pending the time the reconciliation committee to be constituted by the NWC arrives Ekiti.
“What really marvelled us was that Faleye and his likes were duly served with all the court processes. But we decided to stay action in the pursuit of the case because of the respect we have for the NWC which had indicated interest to resolve the matter,” Olatunde said.
However, reacting to the threat, the state secretary of the party, Mr Jackson Adebayo, said there was no contempt of court in anything that the state executive committee of the party did because the expulsion was done before the aggrieved went to court.
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