The Ogun State Excessive Courtroom, sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital, has struck out prayers made by 16 political events within the state, looking for to postpone the proposed Native Authorities elections indefinitely.
Delivering judgment in AB/577/2024 Motion Alliance & 15 Ors v. OGSIEC & Anor, the presiding decide, Hon. Justice T. A. Okunsokan, rejected the claims of the political events that the Ogun State Unbiased Electoral Fee (OGSIEC) had acted unilaterally and dictatorially by fixing the date of the Native Authorities elections with out first consulting the political events.
Justice Okunsokan unequivocally held that there was no provision within the structure or the related electoral legal guidelines that required OGSIEC to seek the advice of political events earlier than fixing the dates of elections.
The court docket additionally discovered that the declare of the events that Ondo State gubernatorial elections would maintain on the identical day as Ogun Native Authorities elections isn’t a official purpose for asking the court docket to compel OGSIEC to postpone elections within the state.
The court docket thereby maintained the established order ante on the sooner introduced date for the Ogun State native authorities elections slated for sixteenth November 2024.
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