Politics

Ogun 2019: Appeal Court sacks Kashamu as PDP candidate

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7 years ago

December 19, 2018

The Appeal Court on Tuesday sacked Senator Buruji Kashamu and others as PDP candidates sponsored by the Adebayo Dayo-led faction of the Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the 2019 governorship and other elections in the Ogun State.

The Court of Appeal in Ibadan Division, annulled the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, which recognized Kashamu and his PDP faction as the authentic PDP in Ogun State and cancelled every action of the faction including submission of candidates to the INEC. The appeal court, therefore, sacked Kashamu and other candidates submitted to the INEC as PDP candidates for 2019 polls in Ogun State.

The lead Judge of the three-man panel, Justice A. B. Bada, granted the four requests brought before the court for determination for the PDP. The Judge said the appellants were not properly served in the case at the lower court which breached their rights to fair hearing.

Both Justices Bada and N. Okoronkwo did not object to the judgment of Justice H. S. Samani who read the lead judgment.

The PDP had declared it will proceed on appeal of the judgment of the High Court after INEC accepted Kashamu and his loyalists as PDP 2019 candidates.

The judgement now makes Oladipupo Adebutu and others who elected at the PDP primary elections in Ogun State the party’s candidates for the 2019 polls.