The Ibadan Division of the
Appeal Court has sacked Sen. Buruji Kashamu and other ‘candidates’ in the
Adebayo Dayo-led faction of the Ogun State PDP, leaving Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu
and others who emerged through the party’s primaries as the authentic
candidates of the party in the 2019 election.
The judgement was delivered
today, Tuesday, December 18, 2018. The three-man appeal panel set aside the
judgment of a Federal High Court in Abeokuta which threw up Kashamu and his
factional members as the authentic PDP candidates.
The panel headed by Justice
A. B. Bada, resolved the four issues raised for determination in the appeal in
favour of the PDP, saying the appellants were not properly served in the case
at the lower court which breached their rights to fair hearing.
Both Justices Bada and N.
Okoronkwo agreed with Justice H. S. Samani who read the lead judgment. The
judgment is expected to have removed the cloud over governorship candidates of
Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu and the National Assembly and Ogun State House of
Assembly candidates for the 2019 election.
The PDP had dragged the
Adedayo Bayo-led faction to the appellate court to challenge the lower court
judgment which threw up its candidates. They prayed the court to set aside the
judgment on the grounds that they were not properly served before judgment was
delivered and that the lower court judge was wrong in his judgment..
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