A lawyer in Ogun state Olufemi Oniyide ESQ has cleared the air over the court judgment between the Otunba Segun Sowunmu and Hon. Ladi Adebutu of the people’s Democratic Party.
Oniyide said that Court Judgement didn’t declare Segun Sowunmi as the governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party that he misinterpreted the court’s judgement and he should read between the line of the judgement.
Lawyer Oniyide made this known during a press briefing with journalists in Ogun at the press secretariat in Iwe-iron Abeokuta the state capital.
He argued that Sowunmi could approach the Court of Appeals on three grounds which were (1)”Whether the appellant’s complaint before the lower court was pre-election matters”, and secondly, the court of appeal looked at the next leg of the notice of Appeal.
(2) Whether the Federal High Court has exclusive jurisdiction over pre-election matters, assuming the appellant’s complaints are a pre-election dispute ” and the third and final round of the appellant’s notice of appeal is.
(3) whether the suit before the lower court is incompetent for non-joinder of the Ogun State Executive of the 1st respondent’ that is whether Sowunmi should have added the members of the State Executive committee as parties to the suit at the state High Court.
Oniyide stated that the Sowunmi declaration as the candidate of the people’s Democratic Party in Ogun State was nothing but a self-declaration and a figment of his imagination of him.
He emphasised that one can not lay a claim on something he had not asked the Court for adding that it was a self-deceit of him and dangerous propaganda which he intended to use to derail the members and supporters of the PDP and its candidate, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu.
Oniyide, therefore, implored Segun Sowunmi to grab a copy of the Court of Appeals judgment and open it to page 27,28,29, where the court reiterated, ” The law is equally settled that the Court has no jurisdiction to pry into the internal affairs of a political party, and the case was a domestic affair of the political party which are to be settled itself, not the Court
