Court Of Appeal Didn’t Declare Adebutu As Ogun PDP Governorship Candidate

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COURT OF APPEAL DIDN’T DECLARE ADEBUTU AS OGUN PDP GOVERNOR SHIP CANDIDATE

We
have received the news of the judgment of the Court of Appeal sitting
in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital that set aside the orders of the
Federal High Court, Abeokuta.

We wish to clarify that contrary to
the false news being spread by our opponents, the Court of Appeal did
not declare Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu or anyone for that matter as
the Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun
State. That was not the prayers of PDP who are the appellants in the
matter and so such a prayer could not have been granted.

The
Court specifically held that it was not a pre-election matter where the
nomination of candidates is in issue since the matter was filed by the
Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun State PDP and not aspirants.

Having
held that it was not a pre-election matter, the Court of Appeal could
not have made a pronouncement on the validity or otherwise of the
nomination of candidates for the 2019 general election.

What is
more, the 25th of October, 2018 letter written by the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) emphatically stated that its
decision to accept the list of candidates submitted by the Engr. Adebayo
Dayo-led Exco was predicated on three court suits, namely
FHC/L/CS/636/2016, FHC/L/CS/1556/2017 and FHC/AB/CS/114/2018. It is only
the interlocutory orders in FHC/AB/CS/114/2018 that were set aside.

The
full and final judgments in FHC/L/CS/636/2016 and FHC/L/CS/1556/2017 in
favour of the Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun State PDP Exco which are yet
to be set aside and do not have any subsisting appeals against them
still remain.

It should also be pointed out that based on the
judgments in FHC/L/CS/636/2016 and FHC/L/CS/1556/2017 in favour of the
Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun State PDP Exco, INEC had in an earlier
letter dated 12th April, 2018, informed the PDP of the commission’s
compliance with the two judgments of the Federal High Court.

The
extant judgment of the Court of Appeal in this appeal does not finally
determine the matter. That is why it ordered that the case file should
be returned to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for
reassignment of the case to another judge who will hear and determine
the originating summons.

Flowing from the above, we wish to
reassure our teeming supporters, party leaders and elders, friends and
associates that nothing has changed. The nomination of Senator Buruji
Kashamu and all other candidates of the Ogun State PDP based on the
valid and subsisting judgments mentioned above has not changed.

Finally, our lawyers have taken steps to immediately appeal the judgment of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court.

Signed
Austin Oniyokor
For: Kashamu/Abati Campaign Organisation
18.12.2018

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