Rauf Aregbesola, the former governor of Osun State, is being sued by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for allegedly sowing discord within the party.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Aregbesola established the Omoluabi Caucus of the Osun APC in Ilesa last year.
At the group’s founding, five representatives from each of the state’s local governments joined the caucus, which was composed of members chosen from each of the 332 wards.
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Aregbesola emphasised during the caucus’ launch that the Omoluabi Caucus was a collection of the party’s original members rather than a faction of the APC.
But in a recent development, Waheed Adeniran, the assistant secretary of the Osun APC, asked the court to declare Aregbesola’s creation of the Omoluabi Caucus an act of anti-party in an affidavit supporting Originating Summons issued by the party’s attorney, Ayodele Kusamotu.
The Independent National Electoral Commission is a defendant in action number FHC/OS/CS/1/2024.
Rasheed Afolabi, a former member of the House of Representatives, and Lani Baderinwa, the Commissioner for Information in Aregbesola’s administration, were also named as defendants.
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The Osun APC wants the court to make “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.”
Additionally, the plaintiff requests “an order prohibiting the illegal factional and parallel association of the 2nd–4th defendants launched as Omoluabi Progressives (APC) in the same or similar name of the plaintiff impersonating the plaintiff in order to function as a political group.”
“General damages of N5m jointly or severally against the 2nd-4th defendants in favour of the plaintiff.”
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