The Appeal Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State has reinstated Oladipupo Adebutu as the bonafide gubernatorial candidate of the Ogun Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The court delivered it’s judgement on Monday, 28th November, 2022, setting aside the judgement of Justice O. Oguntoyinbo, on 27th September 2022.
Recall that Justice Oguntoyinbo had ordered fresh rerun, however, the appeal court ruled that Olabode Idris and others had no locus standi to challenge the gubernatorial candidate primary election that produced Adebutu, because they were not aspirants based on electoral acts.
Further, the court agreed with the appellant that Justice Oguntoyinbo, went in error to have entertained the matter.The Court also ruled all appeal in favour of appellant (PDP) sets aside the judgement of Justice O.Oguntoyinbo and also sets aside all the orders in the Federal High Court judgement of 27th September,2022.
Meanwhile, the Jimi Adebisi Lawal Campaign Organization, has vowed to exercise their right of appeal at the Supreme Court.
In a statement sent out by Austin Oniyokor, the project director of the group said, ‘We just got the news of the decisions of Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, in respect of CA/IB/411/2022 and CA/1B/411A/2022.
Although, the outcomes went against our wish, we are comforted that judicial process allows for appeal up to Supreme Court and we do intend to exercise our right of appeal. Recall, that our friends also appealed to the Supreme Court, when we (won) defeated them at the Court Appeal in Abuja, on 30th of September, 2022, culminating in the judgement given in our favour by Supreme Court on 21st of November, 2022.
“Flowing from the above, our legal team has taken steps to file stay of execution and notice of appeal.”
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