The New Nigeria Folks’s Occasion (NNPP) disowned the swimsuit difficult Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa’s and Dr Olaiyide Adelami’s candidature within the November sixteenth governorship election in Ondo State.
The candidate of the New Nigeria Folks’s Occasion (NNPP), Hon Olugbenga Edema, has requested the Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, to compel the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) to withdraw the nomination and the publication of the names Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his deputy as candidates.
Edema particularly requested the court docket to interpret the applicability of Part 15 of the Third Schedule to the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) over the nomination of the APC candidates in a swimsuit file earlier than it.
Nonetheless, when the case was up for point out on Wednesday, there was a light drama when the NNPP, by means of its Nationwide Authorized Adviser, Mr Robert Hon, mentioned the occasion didn’t authorise any swimsuit in opposition to Governor Aiyedatiwa and his Deputy’s candidature.
Nonetheless, the occasion’s Nationwide Authorized Adviser, in a letter personally signed, requested that the occasion’s title be withdrawn from the swimsuit.
Each Aiyedatiwa, Adelami, INEC, and APC requested the court docket to dismiss the swimsuit for lack of jurisdiction and since the plaintiffs lacked locus standing to file it.
The Defendants have been represented by Dr Remi Olatubora SAN, Kola Olawoye SAN, Mr. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN, who represented Governor Aiyedatiwa, Chief Charles Edosomwan SAN, who represented INEC, and Adelanke Akinrata amongst others.
The drama began when Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa dropped at the court docket’s consideration a letter by the occasion’s authorized adviser dissociating the occasion from the swimsuit over the result of the APC’s main, which produced Aiyedatiwa as a candidate.
