Akin Oke, confirmed the development in a statement on Wednesday in Ibadan. Oke said the APC, through its lawyers, had prepared the originating processes and forwarded same to the state’s Chief Judge. He expressed the hope that the case would be attended to timeously by accepting it for filing and assigning it to a judge for hearing. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
Makinde had on assumption of office in 2019 sacked the elected local government chairmen and councillors on the platform of APC, a year into their tenure. The sacked chairmen and councillors had approached the court to challenge the dissolution, which the Supreme Court ruled in their favour on May 7, 2021
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