{"id":102928,"date":"2023-02-05T17:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102928"},"modified":"2023-02-05T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T16:47:07","slug":"supreme-court-dismisses-pdps-suit-against-oyetolas-participation-in-osun-guber-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/supreme-court-dismisses-pdps-suit-against-oyetolas-participation-in-osun-guber-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court dismisses PDP\u2019s suit against Oyetola\u2019s participation in Osun guber election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking to restore the nullification of the participation of Osun State\u2019s former Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, and his Deputy, Benedict Alabi, in the July 16, 2022 governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja had, in a judgment on September 30, 2022, nullified the participation of Oyetola and Alabi in the governorship election on the grounds that their nomination forms were endorsed by an acting Chairman of APC, who was also a serving Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nwite\u2019s judgment was set aside by the Court of Appeal, Abuja in a judgment in December last year, a decision the PDP appealed to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>In a judgment on Thursday morning, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Centus Nweze, held that the appeal by the PDP was without merit and directed the lawyer to the PDP, Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), to withdraw it.<\/p>\n<p>The court held that the PDP could not, under the law, question the process leading to the emergence of Oyetola and Alabi as candidates of the APC in the election.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking to restore the nullification of the participation of Osun State\u2019s former Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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