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Osun Guber: Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Oyetola’s Disqualification

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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking the disqualification of Osun State governor Adegboyega Oyetola as the All Progressives Congress candidate in the forthcoming Governorship Election in the state.

Delivering a judgment in the suit filed by a chieftain of the APC, Moshood Adeoti against the governor, the presiding judge, justice Inyang Ekwo, declared that the suit was an abuse of the court process.
Justice Ekwo held that there is no law supporting the plaintiff’s process filed before the court.

Justice Ekwo also held that Adeoti in his application admitted that he did not exhaust the party’s internal mechanism before filing the suit as an aspirant in the primary election.

The judge equally agreed with the APC that the court could not assumed jurisdiction on the matter on the grounds that there was no cause of action for filing the suit.

Consequently, he dismissed the suit in its entirety for being an abuse of court process.

Adeoti, who was an aspirant in the Feb. 19 Osun APC governorship primary in the originating summons dated February 22 and filed February 23 asked the court to nullify Oyetola’s candidacy on the grounds that he contested in the poll as a member of the party’s Caretaker Extraordinary and Convention Planning Committee.

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