A former governorship aspirant of the Labour Party (LP), Kenneth Imansuangbon, has dragged the gubernatorial candidate of the party in the Edo
A former governorship aspirant of the Labour Party , Kenneth Imansuangbon, has dragged the gubernatorial candidate of the party in the Edo election, Barr. Olumide Akpata, to the Court of Appeal, apparently dissatisfied with the judgments of a Benin High Court and Federal High Court Abuja, respectively. Also joined in the suit before the Appellate…
Recall that Justice Babatunde Quadri of the High Court in Benin and Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court Abuja had dismissed Imansuangbon’s applications on the 15th and 22nd of July, 2024, respectively. But in a notice before the Appellate Court Abuja with suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/472/2024, Imansuangbon stated that “the learned trial judge erred in law and arrived at a perverse decision occasioning a miscarriage of justice to the plaintiff/appellant when he dismissed the plaintiff/appellant’s suit on the strength of the 1st defendant/respondent’s contention in his preliminary objection at the lower court.
“A simple arithmetical computation of the 14 days provided for under the law, from the date of submission of the said INEC Form EC9 of the 1st and 2nd defendants/respondents , to the 12th of April, 2024, when the plaintiff/appellant filed his suit, reveals a total number of 18 days in between.” The election of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State as the Chairman, Southern Governors’ Forum on June 24, 2024 has continued to generate debate among stakeholders as they interrogate the governor’s readiness to see the assignment as a task to uplift the entire Southern NigeriaA poignant article in the Financial Times of London of January 31, 2022, asked the question, “What is Nigeria’s government for?” as its headline.
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