Court refuses to sack Ondo assembly member-elect who lost party primaries

An Ondo State High Court has refused to grant the prayers of a substituted candidate to be declared the lawful winner of the House of Assembly seat for Okitipupa Constituency II.

The court agreed that the defendant, Mr Akinwunmi, was not the validly nominated APC candidate but refused to declare the plaintiff the winner. Mr Ololade-Gbegudu had approached the court to seek an order to compel the party and INEC to recognise him as the authentic APC candidate for the constituency and not Mr Akinwunmi, having won the party’s primary.

The court held that it was found that the primary election result sheet submitted by the lawmaker-elect was a forged one and is “not reliable, invalid and irrelevant.” The judge also dismissed the objection of the defendants that Mr Gbegudu’s case was filed out of time and was status-barred, noting that the suit was brought on December 22, 2018, within the 14 days allowed by the 1999 Constitution .

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