According to
them, Adeleke lacks the eligibility to represent the party as its governorship
candidate owing to the fact that he doesn’t a possess Secondary School
Certificate.
They
therefore asked the court to stop their party from presenting him to the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as its candidate.
In his
ruling, Justice Oladimeji maintained that Adeleke has the power to contest in
the election, because not having a certificate doesn’t disqualify the senator.
The judge noted
that the constitution stipulates only that the candidate for governorship
position must be educated to secondary school level and didn’t state that he
must have a certificate.
Justice
oladimeji clarified also that the Senator attended Ede Grammar School,
therefore is qualified.
He, however,
said the documents submitted by Adeleke contained some serious and damaging
irregularities, but added that the plaintiffs did not raise the issue of
forgery in the origination summon and failed to prove that the documents were
forged.
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