A Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed a suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party PDP challenging the election of Senator ADETOKUNBO ABIRU of the All Progressives Congress representing Lagos East senatorial district in the National Assembly.

Justice CHUKA OBIOZOR dismissed the suit filed by the PDP in a five-hour judgment delivered today.

He upheld the argument canvassed by ABIRU’s lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, KEMI PINHEIRO, that the PDP’s case was statute-barred.

ABIRU’s victory in court comes a week after the National Assembly and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ikeja struck out a suit challenging his election.