PDP Gubernatorial Candidate in Saturday’s election in Edo, Asue Ighodalo escaped an eleventh-hour attempt by the All Progressives Congress, APC to get him disqualified from the Edo State Governorship election.
This follows the dismissal this Friday evening by Justice Peter Lifu of the suit filed by the APC at the federal high court in Abuja seeking to oust Ighodalo from the gubernatorial race.
Delivering judgment in the suit, Justice Lifu rejected the prayer of the APC to use another judgment of the same court that had queried the validity of the primary election that produced Ighodalo to kick him out of the race.
In a suit marked THC/ABJ/CS/165/2024, Justice Inyang Ekwo had on July 4 held that PDP was wrong in excluding 378 delegates from its February 22 primary election that produced Ighodalo.
Although Justice Ekwo did not categorically declare the primary election invalid, the APC cas0pphing in on Ekwo’s finding, filed a fresh suit to disqualify Ighodalo on the strength of the alleged unlawful exclusion.
The Judge therefore agreed with Ighodalo’s lawyer, Chief Akinlolu Kehinde that the suit was frivolous, baseless, and unwarranted and was thrown out.
