Two members of the newly-Caretaker committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that was set up by South-west PDP to take over the control of the party from Senator Buruji Kashamu- Bayo Dayo led executives have been arrested and charged to Magistrate Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The two party leaders, 75-year-old man, Osisanya Bankole and 65-year-old woman, Adenike Temidayo were last Wednesday arrested during the meeting of the committee at Ibara GRA in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
They were later arraigned before an Magistrate Court in Abeokuta on Thursday for disregarding a judgement of the federal high court on June 24, 2016, which recognised the Bayo Dayo -led committee, as the authentic state PDP executives.
Temidayo and Bankole pleaded not guilty to the three count charges levelled against them.
The magistrate, Idowu Olayinka granted each of them bail in the sum of N200,000 and two sureties, following an oral application made by their counsel.
The case was then adjourned till October 5 and 6, 2017 for hearing.
Newspaper online gathered that the caretaker committee were about to take over the party Secretariat which had been in control of Senator Buruji Kashamu - Adebayo Dayo's faction when they were arrested.
Senator Ahmed Makarfi's National caretaker committee of the party had set up similar committee in some states that had been engulfed with political crisis and factional leadership. The states were Kebbi, Borno and Ogun with Abdulahi Wali, Abdul-malik Mahmud and Tunde Odanye appointed as the caretaker committees chairmen respectively in the three troubled chapters.
Senator Buruji Kashamu had said after the inauguration of the committees that it was illegal, that the dissolved Ogun PDP executives had judiciary favour which Makarfi committee never contested in court.
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