An Appeal Court Appeal sitting in Ibadan, South-West Nigeria, has struck out the appeal filed by the Labour Party (LP) against the election of the Governor of Ogun State , Dapo Abiodun.
Kunle Somorin, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, made this disclosure in a statement issued on Friday.
He said the Labour Party’s appeal lacked merit and was purely a frivolous pursuit.
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Part of the statement said, “The court upheld the submission of counsel to Abiodun and the All Progressives Congress, Wale Ajayi, that the governor was duly elected and calling for the invalidation of the poll that returned him could not stand legal requirements for the nullification of elections.”
Recall that the LP in Ogun State as well as its 2019 governorship candidate, Modupe Sanyaolu, had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abiodun, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) before the election petition tribunal sitting in Ogun State to challenge the exclusion of its party from the ballot papers used for the March 9 governorship election.
But the Yusuf Halilu-led tribunal had earlier struck out the petition due to the failure of the petitioners and their counsels to appear in court on a date fixed for the commencement of hearing.
Efforts of the petitioners to relist the petition for rehearing before the same tribunal did not succeed as well.
The Legend gathered however, that the LP still has another appeal pending before the court.