The plan by the MOSOP Provisional Ruling Council to conduct elections in the chapter and kingdom levels and achieve a complete replacement of MOSOP members with a fresh set of persons may have suffered a major set-back as the Kingdom Coordinators yesterday obtained a court order restraining the MOSOP Provisional Ruling Council from going ahead with the elections.
Ogoninews sources reveal that the Kingdom Coordinators had gone to court to restrain the MOSOP Provisional Ruling Council from conducting elections in the kingdoms and chapters arguing that elections had been concluded at that level and they were alredy serving their term and so elections can no longer be conducted to replace them when they have not concluded their term according to the MOSOP constitution.
But the MOSOP Provisional Ruling Council (not the one headed by Gen. Sanni Abacha) had already announced a dissolution of the elections at all levels against the decisions of the Steering Committee of MOSOP which was made known on January 4, 2012.
Recall that former MOSOP President had named a Caretaker Committee for MOSOP on January 4, 2012 siting inconclusive elections at the affiliate and national levels and mandating the caretaker committee to oversee the conduct of the remaining elections.
The decision of the MOSOP Provisional Ruling Council to set aside all MOSOP elections conducted prior to January 4, 2012 had pitched the MOSOP Kingdom Coordinators against the MPRC and caused deep crisis in the organisation. The MOSOP Coordinators had questioned the authority of the caretaker committee to disobey the terms set for it by the Steering Committee which set it up in the first place. In June, they made an unsuccessful attempt at sacking the committee siting the committe’s silence on the killing of Ogoni people in Sogho and a secret meeting held with Shell at the Hotel Presidential which the Committee chairman did not communicate the outcome to the Ogoni people months after the meeting.
The court order stopping the elections will no doubt frustrate an already discredited MOSOP Provisional Council. It is yet to be seen how a MOSOP Provisional Council with growing unpopularity will be able to conclude elections and handover by January 4, 2013. Failure to change the leadeship of MOSOP by January 4, 2013 could further divide the organisation between those who believe in the foundation laid by Ken Saro-Wiwa (MOSOP Coordinators) and those who believe that MOSOP is for every Ogoni person, registerd or unregistered member of MOSOP.
Source: OgoniNews
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