PDP suit stalled at Lagos tribunal

The National Assembly ‎election petitions tribunal sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, failed to open hearing on Wednesday in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Lagos West, Segun Adewale, challenging the declaration of ‎Olamilekan Adeola (Yayi) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the March 28 election.

At the resumed sitting of the panel, counsel to the APC, Bayo Badmus, told the court that the respondent was yet to file his reply on the point of law as ordered by the tribunal.

Badmus therefore asked the tribunal presided by Justice Sylvanus Oriji for more time to file their reply.

Counsel for the PDP, Dr. Yemi Oke, did not oppose the application.

Justice Oriji therefore adjourned the matter to June 22 for hearing and reiterated his order for parties to file all applications before the next adjourned date.

At the last hearing, the APC had challenged the locus standi of the PDP’s candidate to institute the action.

The party represented by Munis Banire had told the tribunal that the petitioner did not specify the law under which he brought the petition and also failed to state the scores of the candidates, adding that he only disclosed the respondent’s score.

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