You’re usurping my role, APC legal adviser tells Oshiomhole

The National Legal Adviser of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), Babatunde Ogala, has accused the National Chairman
of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of deliberately encroaching
on his office in an attempt to undermine him.

Ogala, in an internal memo dated November 6, 2018, addressed to
Oshiomhole, expressed displeasure that the action continued despite
his open protest to the party’s national chairman during a meeting
of the National Working Committee (NWC).

“I am constrained to put this memo and complaint in writing in
the light of the repeated acts of usurpation and deliberate
encroachment on my office and attempt to undermine my person,”
Ogala said in the memo seen by TheCable, an online news medium.

The memo also read, “You will recall that you had previously
done this in two previous matters wherein you had purportedly
without recourse to me briefed the law firm of D. D. Dodo & Co. in
Suit No: FCT/HC/CV/9265/2018, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu Vs. APC & 1or, and
you also without recourse to us debriefed the law firm of Adeniyi
Akintola (SAN) who had been briefed by the office of the legal
adviser.

“As if that was not enough, you procured a secretary in your
office to depose an affidavit on behalf of the party wherein the
deponent lied on oath that he had the authority of the party on the
said affidavit.

“The motion filed by the law firm of D. D. Dodo & Co. also told
a lie that processes were served on the legal department in a
certain suit No: FCT/HC/BW/CV/ 307/2018, Senator Hope Uzodinma vs
APC & 2ors, but that same was not brought to your notice.

“This was an assertion that was false in every material
particular and an attempt to denigrate the legal department and my
office as no such processes were ever served on the legal
department.”

He said Oshiomhole had apologised to him after the meeting where
he quoted copiously from the party’s constitution which clearly
defined the duties of the national legal adviser and that of the
chairman.

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