BREAKING: Appeal Court reverses Adebutu’s nomination as Ogun PDP Gov candidate

In a judgement on Friday, a three-member panel of the Appeal Court held that Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja (now retired) was wrong to have declined jurisdiction to entertain a suit by Jimi Adebisi Lawal.

Lawal is, by his suit, challenging the PDP’s utilisation of a delegates’ list, in the conduct of the governorship primary election on May 25, 2022 as against the list of delegates, who were democratically elected for that purpose at the ward congresses.

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Delivering the lead judgment of the Court of Appeal on Friday, Justice Biobele Georgewill held that the issue in the case is pre-election related, over which the Federal High Court has jurisdiction.