The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declined to disqualify the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Asue Ighodalo, from contesting the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State.
The court, in a judgement that was delivered by Justice Obiora Egwuatu on Wednesday, struck out the suit that was brought before it by an aggrieved PDP gubernatorial aspirant, Anselm Ojeizu.
Justice Egwuatu agreed with Ighodalo’s lead counsel, Mr. Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, that it was wrong and amounted to a breach of PDP’s mandatory rule, for the plaintiff to have sidelined the Appeal Panel of the party. “In a matter of this nature, conditions precedents must be respected and complied with by any aspirant as had severally enunciated by the Supreme Court in all its decisions”, the Judge held.It will be recalled that Ighodalo had on February 22, emerged as the flag-bearer of the PDP for the impending governorship contest in Edo State.
He was declared winner by the Chief Returning Officer of the Edo PDP Gubernatorial Primaries, governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara state.RIVERS: PDP, lawyers step up opposition to emergency rule call
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