The Supreme Court has struck out an appeal by members of the sacked executive of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, led by Ishola Balogun Fulani.
Recall, that the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, had on July 30, 2018, dissolved the executive following the defection of Senate President Bukola Saraki to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, held in a unanimous ruling on Wednesday, that the appeal was without merit.
Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, in the lead ruling, noted that the appeal, being on an interlocutory decision of a High Court in Ilorin, the record ought to be complied and transmitted within 14 days, as required under Order 7 of the Supreme Court’s Rules.
Justice Ariwoola held that the appellants, having failed to comply with the court’s rules. when they transmitted the record of appeal outside the 14-day period, the appeal becomes incompetent.
The verdict has finally affirm the Lai Mohammed faction of APC in Kwara State as the authentic winner of the last general elections in the state.
This means the Governor-Elect, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and other candidates that contested under the APC umbrella in the last elections are duly elected.
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