A gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mrs Abimbola Olajumoke Olawuni has requested the Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja to nullify the first election of the social gathering in Ekiti State that produced governor Biodun Oyebanji because the candidate of the social gathering within the forthcoming gubernatorial election.
The gubernatorial aspirant knowledgeable the courtroom that the process adopted for the conduct of the disputed main election was arbitrary, opposite to truthful listening to, inconsistent with the APC Structure and the Electoral Act 2022.
Her foremost grouse was that she was excluded from collaborating on the ballot regardless of being a bonafide member of the social gathering and having bought each the Expression of Curiosity and Nomination kinds for the first election.
Within the go well with marked FHC/ABM/CS/222/2025 and filed on her behalf by Abayomi Oluwafemi Olawuyi, the plaintiff utilized for order of the courtroom to put aside her purported disqualification from the first election.
She additionally sought an order of the Federal Excessive Court docket Prohibiting APC from excluding her within the nomination election.
The aspirant claimed to have been cleared on the preliminary stage which entitled her to take part within the last stage however, nevertheless, acquired a shocker on September 24 when she was disqualified in the course of the screening train.
She maintained that the September 24 screening train was a sham, illegal, having been executed with out compliance with part 84 of the Electoral Act and pointers of the social gathering.
The Plaintiff due to this fact requested the courtroom to difficulty order of interim injunction restraining APC from conducting, concluding or forwarding the identify of governor Oyebanji to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee INEC as candidate of APC for the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ekiti state.
In the meantime, the go well with has been assigned to Justice Peter Odo Lifu for adjudication.
