The Court of Appeal, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by an All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship aspirant Mr. Kayode Ojo, challenging the victory of the Governor-elect, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji at the primary election.
The appeal brought by Ojo was heard at the court’s sitting with parties in the appeal adopting processes filed including Motions on Notice, Briefs of Argument and Preliminary Objections, among others.
The presiding judge, Justice M.A.A. Adumein, after lawyers to parties in the appeal had adopted their final written addresses adjourned for judgment on a date expected to be communicated to parties later.
Mr Oyebanji through his counsel, Mr. Yakubu Mikyau SAN , urged the court to dismiss the appeal for lacking in merit and for being incompetent.
Counsel to the appealan Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN) urged the court to allow the appeal and grant all the reliefs sought by his client maintaining that the lower court was wrong to have struck out the suit..
A Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti presided over by Justice Babs Kuewumi, had on 4th August struck out a suit filed by Ojo and upheld Oyebanji’s preliminary objection that the writ of summons and statement of claim of Ojo were defective which it said dealt a fatal blow to the case.
The lower court agreed with Oyebanji’s counsel that the discrepancies in the names of a counsel on Ojo’s originating summons and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) stamp had rendered the suit defective and incompetent.
