PDP Expels Baraje, Oyinlola, Jaja

The National Disciplinary Committee set up
by the leadership of the Bamanga Tukur led
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has
recommended the expulsion of Alhaji
Abubakar Baraje, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola
and Dr. Sam Sam Jaja.
They were suspended on November 11 for
what the leadership of the party described
as anti -party activities. Baraje was the
national chairman of the New PDP while Jaja
was his deputy. Oyinlola was the national
secretary of the Baraje faction.
He, however, said he remained the national
secretary of the ruling party. Oyinlola has
been at war with the leadership of the PDP
over the latter’s failure to reinstate him as
the party’s national secretary.
The Court of Appeal in Abuja had on
November 6, ordered the PDP to reinstate
him as the national secretary of the party.
The party suspended him instead.
Announcing the committee’s
recommendation on Wednesday, Deputy
Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee,
Chief Ebenezer Babatope, pronounced
Baraje, Oyinlola and Jaja guilty as charged.
Babatope, who spoke on behalf of the
committee however said the case of Senator
Ibrahim Kazaure who was also suspended
alongside the trio, had been deferred for
one month. According to him, Kazaure
would still have to appear before the
committee on December 10 to clarify certain
issues relating to his case.
The committee therefore extended his
suspension by 30 days. But in a reaction
yesterday, Oyinlola maintained that he
remained the national secretary of the PDP
and that his expulsion cannot stand.
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