There was tension in Osun State ,particularly in APC camp as Federal High Court in Abuja fixed Thursday for its ruling on the eligibility or otherwise of the incumbent governor and All Progressives Congress(APC) candidate, Gboyega Oyetola in the Saturday, July16 election .
One of the Governorship aspirants ,Moshood Adeoti had filed the suit against the emergence of the governor as the party’s Flagbearer on the ground that the governor contested in the poll as a member of the party’s Caretaker Extraordinary and Convention Planning Committee (CECPC).
The plaintiff said the act contravened the provisions of Section 222 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Article 31(iii) of the APC, October 2014 (as amended).
According to him, the second defendant (Oyetola) ought to have resigned his membership of the APC’s CECPC and leave office as an officer of APC at least 30 days prior to the date of the Osun State primary election, to qualify for participation in the said party primary .
Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date on Wednesday after counsel for the parties adopted their processes and presented their arguments in the matter.
The plaintiff in the suit and a chieftain of the APC, Moshood Adeoti, had filed the matter through his legal team led by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chiesonu Okpoko.
Adeoti was one of the aspirants who lost the APC governorship ticket to Governor Oyetola in the party’s primary held on February 19.