Oyo guber: Ladoja drags Ajimobi to Supreme Court

THE legal battle between for­mer governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, and incumbent, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has finally reached the Supreme Court over con­troversies surrounding the April 11, governorship elec­tion in the state.

Ladoja, who contested the poll on the platform of the Accord Party (AP), finally filed in the apex court his processes yesterday, contest­ing the judgment of the Court of Appeal that dismissed his appeal against the verdict of election petition tribunal.

This came barely two weeks after the Court of Ap­peal, sitting in Ibadan, af­firmed the Tuesday, October 27 verdict of Justice Moham­med Mayaki-led election pe­tition tribunal that affirmed the victory of Governor Aji­mobi.

Ladoja’s Senior Media As­sistant, Alhaji Lanre Latinwo, in a statement made available to newsmen in Ibadan yester­day evening, noted that the five-man panel at the appel­late court led by Justice H.M. Ogunjumiju delivered its judgment on Thursday, De­cember 17, but the court did not release the judgment to the legal team of Ladoja till about 4:30p.m on Tuesday December 29, which was the 13th day from when the judg­ment was delivered.

The five-man panel of judges in the unanimous de­cision had held that Ladoja’s appeal lacked merit and that the evidence of the principal witness, Bimbo Adepoju, tagged as PWI, was inadmis­sible. The appellate court also dismissed a separate appeal filed by the Accord, the party on which platform Ladoja contested, for lack of merit.

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