Justice Evoh Chukwu of a Federal High Court siting in Abuja has foiled attempts by former governor of Oyo state, Adebayo Alao Akala to take control of the structure of Peoples Democratic Party’s executives in the state ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
The former governor who is nursing the ambition of returning to the government house lost to Governor Abiola Ajimobi in the 2011 elections.
He has been critical of the Hon. Yinka Taiwo led executive of the Oyo State chapter of the party and had been working to sack the executive members and install a caretaker committee that will work for the realization of his gubernatorial ambition in 2015.
Presently, 20 aspirants have indicated their interests to contest the forthcoming governorship election in the state on the platform of some of the registered political parties with majority of the aspirants belonging to the People’s Democratic Party.
In fact, 12 of the aspirants are of the PDP stock.
As preparations for the election heightened, supporters of the former governor, Alao Akala, petitioned the national chairman of the party seeking the dissolution of the Hon. Yinka Taiwo led executives which he accused of not living up to expectation.
Part of the petition reads, “I want to urgently bring to your attention the fact that the PDP Exco in Oyo state elected on the 17th of March, 2012, under the chairmanship of Hon Akeem Yinka Taiwo, is not living up to expectation at all.
