Updated: Tribunal Strikes Out Petition Challenging Abiodun Faleke's Victory

Posted by George on Fri 14th Jun, 2019 - tori.ng

Mr Faleke of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is the member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency in the lower chamber.

 
James Faleke
 
An Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ikeja, Lagos Friday struck out an application challenging James Abiodun Faleke’s victory in the House of Representatives election of February 23.
 
Mr Faleke, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is the member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency in the lower chamber.
 
The tribunal chaired by Justice Kunaza M. Hamidu made the order following a motion by the petitioner, Mutiu Olakunle Okunola, to withdraw his application.
 
Mr Okunola contested the poll against Faleke on May 23 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP).
 
He dragged Faleke, the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the tribunal, praying for a reversal of Faleke’s victory and a declaration that he was the rightful winner of the election.
Okunola, however, recently defected to the APC.
 
At the resumed hearing of the application Friday, Okunola’s counsel, Owoyemi Ibrahim, told the panel that his client had decided to withdraw the application against all the respondents.
 
Ibrahim said that in withdrawing the application, he filed a motion pursuant to Section 145(1) of the Electoral Act, 2010, with an 11 paragraph-affidavit deposed to by the petitioner, Okunola.
 
He prayed the panel to grant the motion.
 
Responding, counsel to Faleke and the APC, Messrs Kolawole Salami and Ademola Adefolaju, who held the brief of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Gboyega Oyewole, said their clients would not oppose the petitioner.
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