Supreme Court dismisses interlocutory appeals on Ogun PDP guber ticket

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two Interlocutory appeals brought before it by an aggrieved governorship aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Otumba Jimi Lawal.

The two appeals were dismissed by a panel of five Justices of the Supreme Court led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun following their dramatic withdrawal by the appellant’s counsel, Chukwudi Enebeli.

Lawal and another chieftain of the PDP in Ogun, Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu are locked in a fierce legal battle on who should fly the flag of the party at the forthcoming coming Governorship election in the state.

The odds have, however, favoured Adebutu’s candidacy following the dismissal of Jimi Lawal’s suit at the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

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In the instant matter, Lawal had filed two appeals challenging the use of the Court Record transmitted by another party and the procedural policy in accepting and using the disputed record.

At Wednesday’s proceedings, the Apex Court subjected the appellant’s counsel to question the desirability of pursuing interlocutory appeals at the expense of the substantive matter.

The Supreme Court panel informed the counsel that the court has no luxury of time to expend on interlocutory appeals before coming to the substantive matter.

They further drew the attention of the lawyer to the fact that the appellant’s appeal is time-bound and must be tackled at the substantive level instead of dissipating energies on the interlocutory ones.

Enebeli who claimed to have gotten and understood the hint of the Justices subsequently applied for withdrawal of the appeals, an appeal which the court granted and directed the counsel to go and proceed with how to get the substantive matter brought before the court within the time allowed by law.