The Federal High Court in Abuja fired Idu Onyiloyi, the Labour Party’s deputy governorship candidate in Benue State, on Wednesday.
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Judge Ekwo ruled in a petition brought by Ochechi Adejor that Onyiloyi ceased to be a constable after voluntarily withdrawing and deposing to an affidavit to that effect.
In his place, Justice Ekwo reinstated Dr. Ochechi Godwin Adejor, the plaintiff, as the party’s new deputy governorship candidate after discovering facts that Onyiloyi wrote the LP on the withdrawal of his candidature and that he also provided legal backing for the withdrawal with a Court affidavit as evidence of withdrawal.
The court issued an order stopping Onyiloyi from further parading himself as the Labour Party’s Deputy Governorship Candidate in Benue while the LP was restrained from recognising Onyiloyi as its deputy governorship candidate.
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The judge invoked sections 221, 222 of the 1999 Constitution and sections 29, 31, 32, 33 and 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 and declared that the LP should remove Onyiloyi and replace him with Adejor upon voluntary withdrawal.
The court also issued an order compelling INEC to publish the name of the plaintiff and another order of perpetual injunction restraining INEC from accepting any name other than that of the plaintiff as the Deputy Governorship Candidate.
Justice Ekwo also ordered the LP to immediately forward the name of Dr Ochechi Godwin Adejor, to INEC commission for publication as the lawful deputy governorship candidate.
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