Shola Soyele
Updated April 29, 2021
The APC candidate for the Lagos East Senatorial Election, Tokunbo Abiru has been declared the winner of the poll held on December 5, 2020. Credit: @TokunboAbiru
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has dismissed a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking to disqualify Senator Adetokunbo Abiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from continuing to represent Lagos East Senatorial District.
In a judgment delivered on Thursday via zoom, a three-man panel of the court affirmed the March 1 decision of the Federal High Court in Lagos which dismissed Babatunde Gbadamosi and the PDP’s suit for lacking in merit.
Stop pouring empty encomiums, address issues Odumakin raised, Gbadamosi tells Buhari, Tinubu
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2020
Lagos East Senatorial District bye-election, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has asked
politicians to stop pouring “empty encomiums” on the late activist and
columnist, Yinka Odumakin.
Gbadamosi said instead of the outpouring of tributes in
honour of the late vocal activist, politicians including the President, Major
General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola
Tinubu; Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; House of Representatives Speaker, Femi
Gbajabiamila; should address the issues raised by the late Odumakin.
Gbadamosi, also former governorship candidate in the 2019
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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2020 Lagos East Senatorial District bye-election, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has asked politicians to stop pouring “empty encomiums” on the late activist and columnist, Yinka Odumakin.
Gbadamosi said instead of the outpouring of tributes in honour of the late vocal activist, politicians including the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu; Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila; should address the issues raised by the late Odumakin.
Gbadamosi, also a candidate in the 2019 governorship election in Lagos State, stated this in an exclusive interview with
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The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the Lagos East Senatorial Bye-Election, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi, have filed an appeal against the judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos, which dismissed their case against the All Progressive Congress and its candidate in the said election, Senator Tokunbo Abiru.
On the 1st of March, Hon. Justice Chuka Obiozor had ruled that the case of PDP and Gbadamosi did not disclose grounds for the disqualification of Senator Abiru.
In the notice of appeal containing nine grounds and particulars, filed by the law firm of Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, PDP and Gbadamosi are contending that the judge erred in law when it declined jurisdiction to entertain certain Issues in their claims and struck out same, on the ground that the reliefs sought are statute-barred.