Following the dismissal of its petition at the Ogun state govenorship election tribunal, the Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has filed an appeal at the Appeal court sitting in Ibadan to challenge the ruling.
The Party who approached the tribunal challenging the omission of its Party logo at the March governorship election in the State condemned the dismissal of its petition describing it as "a pre-determined political conspiracy".
The LP in a petition marked EPT/GOV/03/2019 was at the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for alleged unlawful exclusion of the Party’s candidate from contesting during the governorship election in the State and was struck out "for lack of diligent prosecution".
The Ogun state Chairman of LP, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi in a statement in Abeokuta on Saturday disclosed that the party has concluded plans to file for an appeal at the Court of Appeal, Ibadan.
Arabambi who vowed to pursue the case to a logical conclusion, said, “We are assuring the public that nothing has changed, the case is alive and has been appealed already before the court of appeal in Ibadan”.
He said his party had written several letters to the President of the Courts of Appeal, Hon. Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa requesting that the Tribunal be relocated to Abuja for the safety of the lives of the petitioners and that of their witnesses.
Arabambi said, “The Labour Party’s petition is straight forward enough. In the Governorship election, the INEC omitted the name and Logo of Labour Party in the ballot paper and Dapo Abiodun as the considered winner of the election was illegally installed”.
“We want to reiterate our commitment in the Judiciary of Nigeria just as we would not allow the corrupt few in the system to infiltrate justice in connivance with some unholy politicians in disguise”, Arabambi added.
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