Dr. Michael Olugbile has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Accord Party, and Olusola Omoniyi to Appeal court.
This was necessitated according to the unwarranted controversy created by enemies of the people of Odo-Otin, Ifelodun, and Boripe Federal Constituency.
Regarding the authentic candidate of the Accord Party, Dr. Michael Olugbile (DMO) had on September 30 dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the Federal High Court, Osogbo.
However, the presiding judge, Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel, in his ruling delivered on January 17, 2023, relied on an unreliable and unlawful technicality to strike out the suit without considering the case’s merit.
DMO said, “while the enemies of the people had thought that they could hinder the good people of Odo-Otin, Ifelodun, and Boripe Federal Constituency from voting massively for DMO in the February 25 House of Reps election, DMO and his campaign team are unperturbed by the distraction created and has promptly filed an appeal to overturn the unjust judgement delivered by the Federal High Court.”
He added, ”We are confident and calm that we shall get the proper justice we deserve at the Appeal Court even as the judiciary is the hope of the common man.”
Therefore, the people of Odo-Otin/Ifelodun/Boripe Federal Constituency are assured that Dr. Michael Olugbile (DMO) will contest in the forthcoming House of Representatives election and will win, as the people have made up their minds to vote massively for him notwithstanding the distractions being put in place by the enemies of the people.
“The ruling of the Appeal Court will soon put to rest the controversy generated by the list of candidates for the February 25, 2023, House of Reps election published by INEC on September 20, 2022, in which INEC published the name of a wrong candidate who had voluntarily withdrawn his candidacy and had appropriately notified INEC of his withdrawal in line with the 2022 Electoral Act.”
Having fulfilled all the requirements of the law and that of the Accord party and completing all INEC statutory forms, it was surprising that INEC omitted the name of DMO in its ‘final’ list of House of Reps candidates published on September 20 and instead, published the name of the withdrawn candidate, Mr. Omoniyi Olusola.
Following the refusal of INEC to remedy the situation even after a letter of demand was written, DMO, as the Plaintiff, dragged INEC to the Federal High Court and joined Accord (A) Party as the 2nd Defendant while the withdrawn candidate, Mr. Omoniyi Olusola was the 3rd Defendant in the suit.
He, therefore, filed the suit. The case was mentioned at the Osogbo division of the Federal High Court on November 11 and was heard on November 28. At the counsel’s request to Mr. Olusola Omoniyi, the case was adjourned to Thursday, December 1.
The adjournment resulted from the argument between the lawyer representing DMO and Mr Omoniyi. Mr Omoniyi Olusola, through his lawyer, argued that he didn’t withdraw from the House of Reps position even though he had signed a withdrawal letter and deposed to an affidavit to that effect while also participating and emerging as the Senatorial Candidate in a fresh substitution primary election conducted on July 5, 2022, by Accord Party which INEC monitored.
Having appealed the inconsistent judgement, DMO is confident that the January 17 judgement of the Federal High Court will be set aside. He will be declared as the authentic candidate of the Accord Party for the House of Reps by the Appellate Court. The people of Odo-Otin/Ifelodun/Boripe Federal Constituency will be able to vote massively for him. He will overwhelmingly win the election to massively scale up all his self-funded interventions in the Federal Constitution.
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