Ekiti: Appeal Court Reserves Judgement On Suit Challenging Oyebanji’s Nomination

The Ado-Ekiti division of the Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the attraction filed via a contestant in the January 27 Ekiti State All Progressives Congress (APC) fundamental election, Kayode Ojo, difficult the victory of the Governor-elect, Biodun Oyebanji.
The enchantment introduced via Ojo was once heard at the court’s sitting on Monday with events in the enchantment adopting tactics filed along with motions on notice, briefs of argument and preliminary objections, among others.
The presiding judge, Justice Aseimo Adumein after attorneys to events in the attraction had adopted their procedures and argued their briefs, adjourned for judgment on a date anticipated to be communicated to events later.
Oyebanji via his counsel, Yakubu Mikyau, SAN and the APC via its counsel, Shaibu Aruwa, SAN, whose quick was once argued by using Titilayo Precious Soje, advised the courtroom to brush aside the enchantment for missing benefit and for being incompetent.
He argued that Ojo’s attraction has turn out to be tutorial and it serves no beneficial cause as dominated through the decrease courtroom which had formerly adjudicated the matter.

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Counsel to Ojo, Dr Alex Izinyon, SAN, entreated the court docket to enable the attraction and supply all the reliefs sought through his purchaser maintained that the decrease court docket used to be incorrect to have struck out the go well with except going into the benefit of the case.
While arguing that the decrease courtroom used to be incorrect in placing out Ojo’s go well with besides going into the benefit of the case, Izinyon stated the case of ANPP v Obaseki on Page 22-24 of his short of argument ruing the choice of the trial court docket to “throw the infant away with tub water.”

The Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti presided over by way of Justice Babs Kuewumi, had on  August 4, 2022, struck out a swimsuit filed by way of Ojo and upheld Oyebanji’s preliminary objection that the writ of summons and assertion of declare of Ojo had been faulty which it stated dealt a deadly blow to the case.
The decrease court docket agreed with Oyebanji’s assistance that the discrepancies in the names of a information on Ojo’s originating summons and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) stamp had rendered the swimsuit faulty and incompetent.