A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed a suit filed by an aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Jimi Lawal, challenging the nomination of Oladipupo Adebutu as the party’s governorship candidate for the 2023 elections.
The court held, among others, that Lawal failed to prove his claim that the PDP’s governorship primary held on May 25, 2022, was not validly conducted.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment held that Lawal failed to establish with credible evidence his claim that the register/list of voting delegates used during the governorship primary election was marked ‘statutory delegates’ and contained names of political appointees and other persons other than those of the ad-hoc delegates.
The judge held that Lawal, who scored zero votes in the primary election, was only playing the role of a spoiler, having defected from the All Progressives Congress shortly before the primary election.
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