{"id":99842,"date":"2022-09-30T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99842"},"modified":"2022-09-30T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:15:54","slug":"breaking-court-repeals-adebutus-nomination-as-pdp-gov-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-court-repeals-adebutus-nomination-as-pdp-gov-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Court repeals Adebutu\u2019s nomination as PDP gov candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court of Appeal in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has set aside an earlier judgment of the Federal High Court in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu.<\/p>\n<p>A three-member panel of the Appeal Court, in a ruling on Friday, faulted Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja (now retired) judgment which declined jurisdiction to entertain a suit by Jimi Adebisi Lawal.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com reports that Lawal is challenging the PDP\u2019s utilisation of a delegates\u2019 list as against the list of delegates who were elected at the ward congresses for the conduct of the May 25, 2022, governorship primary election.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBut in the lead judgement on Friday, Justice Biobele Georgewill ruled that the Federal High Court has jurisdiction over the case as it is pre-election related.<\/p>\n<p>The judge also orders remitting the case to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for the hearing of the case on merit.<\/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 Court of Appeal in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has set aside an earlier judgment of the Federal High Court in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in&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":99843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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