Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State
The Federal High Court has refused to disqualify Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State from participating in the governorship election in the state as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Federal High Court, Abuja, in a judgement delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo today (Thursday) held that the suit that sought to invalidate governor Oyetola’s nomination as flag-bearer of the APC for the election lacked merit and deserved to be dismissed.
Justice Ekwo held that the Plaintiff, Moshood Adeoti, failed to establish a reasonable cause of action to warrant Oyetola’s disqualification.
More so, the court held that the suit, which it said was an abuse of the judicial process, was not backed with relevant laws, adding that it was brought outside the scope of section 87(9) of the Electoral Act and Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
