Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Oyetola’s Disqualification

A federal high court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed a suit seeking the disqualification of Gov Adegboyega oyetola of osun as the All progressive Congress candidate, in Saturdays governorship election holding in the state.

Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, declared that the suit filled by a chieftain of the APC,Alhaji moshood olalekan Adeoti, against oyetola was an abuse of the Court process.

Justice Ekwo held that there was no law supporting the plaintiff (Adeoti)’s process filled before the court.

The judge also agreed with the APC that the court could not assumed jurisdiction on the matter on the ground that there was no cause of action for filling the suit.Ekwo also held that in his application.

Adeoti who was also an aspirant in the Feb 19 APC’s primary poll,also admitted that he didn’t exhaust the party’s internal mechanism before filling the suit.

Consequently, the judge dismissed the suit in its entirety for being an abuse of court process.

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