A Federal High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, has affirmed Senator Ademola Adeleke the authentic governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the July 16 election.
Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel held that the March 8 primary election conducted at the WOCDIF Centre in Osogbo, which produced Dotun Babayemi, was null and void.
Justice Ayo-Emmanuel, who cited Section 84 (14) of the Electoral Act dismissed the suit filed by Babayemi. He said it was only the aspirant(s) that participated physically in the primary conducted by the PDP National Working Committee, and not the one conducted by the state executives, have the power and locus standi to challenge such suit in court. He thus upheld the primary conducted by the PDP National Working Executive Committee at the Osogbo Township Stadium which produced Adeleke.
According to him, the plaintiff’s claims lacked the locus standi because he did not take part in the primary election held at the Osogbo Township Stadium which was supervised by the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo.
