JUST IN: Appeal Court Nullifies Disqualification Of Ize-Iyamu

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The Appeal Court sitting in Benin has Monday nullified the Judgment of the Edo State High Court that disqualified Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and Gani Audu from contesting in the September 19, 2020 governorship in Edo State.
In an unanimous decision read by Justice Oyebisi Omoleye and supported by Justices B.A. Georgewill and O.E.Oho, the appellate court said the case at the lower court was “grossly incompetent.”

The Appeal Court sitting in Benin has Monday nullified the Judgment of the Edo State High Court that disqualified Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and Gani Audu from contesting in the September 19, 2020 governorship in Edo State.

At its sitting today, the judges in a unanimous decision, said there was no evidence of credentials forgery on the part of Gani Audu.

In an unanimous decision read by Justice Oyebisi Omoleye and was supported by Justices B.A. Georgewill and O.E.Oho, the appellate court said the case at the lower court was “grossly incompetent.”

The Appeal Court ruled that the suit at the lower court was filed out of time by two days which made it statue barred and that Oshoakpemhe could not prove the case of the forgery against Gani Audu beyond reasonable doubt by providing the original of the forged document to the court.

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She ruled that the first respondent in the case before the Appeal Court is “trying to make mountain out of molehill and his case is grossly incompetent. The judgement of the trial court delivered on January 6 which disqualified the appellant and Audu Ganiyu from contesting respectively as governor and deputy governor is set aside”.