The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking the disqualification of Osun State Governor, ADEGBOYEGA OYETOLA, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the July 16 governorship election scheduled to hold in the state.

Justice INYANG EKWO, while delivering Judgment, stated that the plaintiff, MOSHOOD ADEOTI, failed to support the process with relevant laws, and as such, showed no cause of action in the suit which makes it a gross abuse of court process.

Justice INYANG added that the suit instituted falls outside the scope of section 87(9) of the Electoral Act and Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

ADEOTI, a chieftain of the APC was one of the aspirants in the February 19 APC governorship primary for the state but lost the ticket to Governor OYETOLA, and then filed the case seeking the governor’s disqualification through his legal team led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), CHIESONU OKPOKO.