LG poll: APC, 19 disqualified candidates takes legal Action against Gov Adeleke, OSSIEC
The All Progressives Congress in Osun State and 19 candidates of the party in the forthcoming local government elections in the state have dragged the State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, and the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission before the court, following the disqualification of 19 of them from the proposed poll.
Also joined as a co-defendant in the suit is the Osun State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Oluwole Jimi-Bada.
The APC and the 19 affected candidates, in suit No. Hos/184/2024, filed on their behalf by Mr Muhydeen Adeoye, challenged the refusal of OSSIEC to accept the substitution of their names, which led to their disqualification.
They subsequently asked the court to declare the processes leading to the February 2025 poll illegal, null and void.
They also urged the court to order the defendants to pay a sum of N100,000,000.00 in damages to them, in addition to tendering a written apology for the public embarrassment, humiliation, disturbance, and trauma caused to them over an attempt by OSSIEC to deprive the claimants of the opportunity to participate in the 2025 Local Government Elections in Osun State.
In the originating summons dated October 18, 2024, obtained in Osogbo on Saturday, the claimants alleged that the defendants failed to constitute the Local Government and Area Council Election Tribunal, which has shut the door of opportunity to challenge their pre-election grievances against the decision of OSSIEC to disqualify them from participation in the poll.
