A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking disqualification of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Governor Gboyega Oyetola from the Osun State Governorship election slated for Saturday.<\/p>\n
Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo dismissed the suit on Friday on six grounds that the plaintiff, a Chieftain of APC, Moshood Olalekan Adeoti, failed woefully to disclose any cause of action.<\/p>\n
The judge held that the suit instituted by the former governorship aspirant constituted a gross abuse of the court process and that the plaintiff did not exhaust the internal mechanism before rushing to court.<\/p>\n
Justice Ekwo upheld the arguments of Olusegun Jolaawo SAN that membership of the APC\u2019s Caretaker Extraordinary and Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) by Governor Oyetola in which the suit is predicted is an ad-hoc body and not the real APC\u2019s office recognised by the party\u2019s Constitution.<\/p>\n
Adeoti had sought disqualification of the incumbent governor, Gboyega Oyetola from the gubernatorial poll<\/p>\n
In the originating summons, he prayed the court to nullify Oyetola\u2019s candidacy on the grounds that the governor contested in the February 19 primary election as a member of the APC\u2019s National Caretaker Extraordinary and Convention Planning Committee (CECPC).<\/p>\n
The plaintiff said the act contravened the provisions of Section 222 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Article 31(iii) of the APC, October 2014 (as amended).<\/p>\n
But the judge held that CECPC is not an office recognized by the APC\u2019s Constitution upon which anybody can be disqualified but a mere ad-hoc body put in place in the absence of the National Executive Committee known to law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking disqualification of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Governor Gboyega Oyetola from the Osun State Governorship election slated for Saturday. Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo dismissed the suit on Friday on six grounds that the plaintiff, a Chieftain of APC, Moshood Olalekan Adeoti, failed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":106681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,36450,1414,2020],"class_list":["post-203440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-apc","tag-gubernatorial-election","tag-osun","tag-oyetola"],"yoast_head":"\n