A legal practitioner and member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Edo State, Mr. Charles Ude on Wednesday filed a suit before the Federal High Court, Abuja seeking to disqualify the Governorship candidate of the party in the, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
Ude is aggrieved that the emergence of Pastor Ize-Iyamu as the candidate of the party in the September 19 Governorship election in Edo State is illegal.
The plaintiff in the suit marked FHCABJ/CS/839/2020, told the court that both the committee that conducted the screening were not properly constituted.
According to the plaintiff, in view of the June 16 judgment of the Court of Appeal which affirmed that the former National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole was duly suspended November 2, 2019, all the decisions he took during the subsistence of his suspension remained invalid, null and void and of no legal consequence.
He told the court that following the appellate courts judgment that uphold the suspension of Oshiomhole, Chief Victor Giadom who took over the affairs of the party cancelled all the screening and primaries committee that cleared Ize Iyamu which he did not set up.
Meanwhile, no date has been fixed for hearing of the matter.
Source: Vanguard