Court nullifies Osun LG election

A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Friday, nullified the State Local Government Election conducted by Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC).

The presiding judge, Justice Ayo-Nathaniel Emmanuel, held that the election conducted by OSIEC on October 15 was illegal, null and void having not conducted in consonance with the Electoral Act of 2022.

Justice Emmanuel ordered the local government chairmen and councillors acrossed the state to vacate all local government secretariats and offices with immediate effect.

He said the noticed given by OSIEC for the election was not in compliance with Section 28 of the OSEIC Act 2022.

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”Section 24 of the OSIEC laws gives 360 days notice and also section 25 and section 26 of the OSEIC laws are also insistence with the electoral act in term of submission and publication of names,” the judge said.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) approached the court asking to stop OSIEC from going ahead with the local government election.

Other respondents in the matter include the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), All Progressives Congress (APC), and the party’s former chairman, Oba Adeboyega Famoodun, the Owa of Igbajo.

The Star