Olumide Aderinokun, husband of Stephanie Coker, has won a lawsuit instituted against him by Dada Kolawole, a PDP senatorial aspirant in Ogun Central Senatorial District.
The duo of Aderinokun and Kolawole had contested in the PDP primary election in Ogun Central Senatorial District a few months ago. Aderinokun emerged the winner, but Kolawole took the party and the Independent National Electoral Commission to a Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta to challenge the result of the election and Aderinokun’s candidacy.
Kolawole urged the court to declare him the only duly nominated candidate of the PDP. However, while delivering his judgment, Justice Oguntoyinbo struck out the case, stating that the suit was not a competent one.
The judge also said that the suit was not initiated in line with due process of the law. The originating summon was not properly and duly signed and initiated by a legal practitioner known to law. On that basis, the court struck out the suit. There has been jubilation in the camp of Aderinokun because of the court ruling.
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