Olagunsoye Oyinlola The Oodua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC) yesterday criticised former Osun State Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola for “trying to further diminish the reputation of the Nigerian judiciary.”
ONAC is a coalition of 25 Yoruba groups, including the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Oodua Liberation Movement (OLM), Yoruba Revolutionary League (YRL) and Oodua Youth Alliance (OYA), among others.
In a statement by its Secretary, Mr. Sunday Akinnuoye, and Woman Leader Alhaja Medinat Agbaje, ONAC described Oyinlola’s decision to sue telecommunication giant, MTN, as “a daunting affront on Nigerians and their right to the free-flow of information, which MTN currently provides.”
It accused Oyinlola of waging a desperate war to undermine democracy in Nigeria.
The statement reads: “The suit against MTN over the electoral disputes in Osun and Ekiti states, filed by Oyinlola, is disgraceful. We are aware that the decision of the Court of Appeal is final on governorship election disputes and the court has already given its judgment.
“It is ridiculous and unethical to see a group of desperate politicians trying to scuttle the will of the people as affirmed by the court, the final arbiter on the matter.
“The people of the Southwest affirmed the court’s decision through their overwhelming vote for the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) during the 2011 elections.
“It is on record that Oyinlola lost his ward and local government during the last elections. What other form of rejection can a man suffer to realise that the people detest him?
“We want the PDP to realise that when people are not allowed to express their democratic choice, they are often tempted by aggression and discontent.
“The Southwest enjoys some level of peace largely due to the fact that the choice of the people was respected during the last elections. It will be catastrophic for the future of the country, if the PDP runs a full circle in its well-noted culture of impunity, which the party is desperate to instal in the Southwest by undermining the decisions of the judiciary on electoral matters.”
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