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Punch Newspapers Sections Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin Edo State High Court 7 sitting in Benin, on Wednesday, nullified the candidacy of the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Audu Ganiyu, who contested in the September 19, 2020 governorship election. An individual, Kadiri Oshoakhemhe had in a suit No: B/358/20 filed a case against the APC deputy governorship candidate and two others who he argued were ineligible to contest the elections on the grounds they presented false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission. Delivering judgement in Benin City, the presiding judge, Justice H.A Courage-Ogbebor said that Ganiyu presented false information in his Form EC9 which he submitted to INEC to enable him contest the election. ....
The court held that the APC deputy governorship aspirant, Ganiyu Abudu, presented false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in his Form EC9 to enable him to contest the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State. The plaintiff had argued that the defendant presented false information to INEC in the form EC9 affidavit in support of personal particulars submitted to the commission for the purpose of contesting election into the office of deputy governor for Edo State. The plaintiff prayed the court to annul the candidacy of Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the APC candidate for governor on account of running with an unqualified candidate for deputy governor. ....