Court upholds PDP candidate as validly elected

Date: 2020-03-20

The Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara Sate, on Thursday struck out a suit filed before it by the Kwara State House of Assembly member, Abdulrazeez Oluwanilo, and the All Progressives Congress, challenging the recognition of Abdulraheem Agboola of the Peoples Democratic Party as member representing the Ilorin south constituency in the assembly.

Recall that in November last year, the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin nullified the election of Oluwanilo as the member representing Ilorin south and declared Agboola of the PDP as winner of the election.

The court also ordered INEC to issue a fresh certificate of return to the PDP candidate and the INEC had obliged.

However, after alleged pressure from the state government to force the PDP member from defecting to APC had failed, the assembly had refused to recognise Agboola as member.

The APC and the state government also instituted a suit against the court order claiming that the man sacked by the tribunal and the appeal court was not the one in the assembly representing Ilorin constituency.

The Federal High Court, however, in a judgment delivered by Justice Babagana Achiga, struck out the suit for lacking merit, describing it as gross abuse of court processes .

The court also ordered the Kwara Assembly Speaker, Yakubu Danladi, to immediately swear in Agboola, having satisfy all eligibility criteria to be sworn in as the member representing Ilorin south constituency.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Sunday Fagbemi     Nupe     Mamatu Abdullahi     Oro Grammar School     Shao     Roseline Oni Aremu     Ndakene     Government High School Adeta     QuickWin     Salami Adekunle     Stephen Fasakin     Sodiya     Musa Abdullahi     Kwara State University Of Education     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     The Herald     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     IEDPU     Balikis Jawondo     ER-KANG     Elerinjare     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Kwara     Halimah Perogi     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Adeola Abraham     Siraj Oyewale     Gbenga Adebayo     Bolakale Saka     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     IQRA College     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Kolawole Bashirat     National Pilot     Illyasu Abdullahi     Mamman Saba Jibril     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     National Broadcasting Commission     Abdulrazaq Magaji     David Oyedepo     Tunji Moronfoye     Ayo Salami     Mashood Dauda     Bola Magaji     ANCOPPS     Jumoke F. Ajao     Sarkin Malamai     Bashir Adigun     Sam Onile     Ilorin West     Kwara Metro Park     Ndama Al-hassan     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Olatunji Ayeni     Najim Yaasin     Ali Ahmad     Okin Group     Adisa Logun     Reuben Paraje     Olomu     David Adesina     Mutawali     Issa Oloruntogun     Ayedun     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Yemi Osinbajo     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Saliu Ajia     Sebastine Obasi     Fulani     Garba Dogo     Lukman Adeloyin    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Solomon Edojah     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Awodun     Tunji Olawuyi     Hausa     Kwara Pdp     Adisa Logun     Oniwa     Saka Adeyemo     Ilorin East     CACOVID     Atunwa     Revenue Court     Oba Abu     Hauwa Nuru     Oni Adebayo     Woro     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Amuda Aluko     Kolo     Bilikisu Gambari     Twitter     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Farouk Salim     Saeedat Aliyu     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Ijagbo Health Centre     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Moses Adekanye     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     New Model Police Station     Awwal Jawondo     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Kwabes     Mubarak Oladosu     Plat Technologies Limited     Tuesday Assayomo     New Naira Notes     Www.Kwarareports.com     Jebba     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Kamaldeen Gambari     Yeketi     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Minimum Wage     Saka Onimago     Peculiar Allowance     Sarah Jubril     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Bello Oyebanji     Ilorin Like-Minds     Basit Olatunji     Kayode Issa     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Eruku     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Ibrahim Orire     Oladimeji Thompson     IEDPU     Olugbense     Bolaji Aladie     Na\'Allah     Gabriel Fashanu     Goodluck Jonathan     Kwara State Pension Board     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Azeez Salawu     April 11     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Bello Abubakar     Yaru