Suit Challenging Akeredolu’s Reelection Dismissed

A suit filed by Mrs Olajumoke Anifowose at the Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging the emergence of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the July 20 primary election was dismissed on Wednesday.

Delivering a ruling, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed the suit filed by Mrs Anifowose, who was also an APC aspirant in the poll.

Justice Ekwo held that the application was statute-barred.

Akeredolu was declared the winner of the October 11, 2020 governorship election in the state after polling 292, 830 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr Eyitayo Jegede of the PDP, who scored 195, 791 votes.