JUST IN: Court Affirms Adeleke As PDP Candidate For Osun Governorship Poll

• Court Affirms Adeleke As PDP Candidate For Osun Governorship Poll.

• The judge dismissed a suit filed by Prince Dotun Babayemi, seeking to be declared the candidate of PDP.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, southwest Nigeria, has dismissed a suit seeking to declare Prince Dotun Babayemi as the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the July 16 governorship election in Osun State.

The judge dismissed a suit filed by Prince Dotun Babayemi, seeking to be declared the candidate of PDP.

This online news platform gathered that the court consequently affirmed Senator Ademola Adeleke as the validly elected PDP candidate for the poll.

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In his judgement which took over 1 hour, 30 minutes, Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel held that the primary election conducted at the WOCDIF Centre, Osogbo, on March 8, 2022, which produced Babayemi was null and void.

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