The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Tokunbo Abiru, on Friday asked a Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss a suit challenging his eligibility for the office.
Mr Abiru, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told Justice Chuka Obiozor that the suit filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the December 5 senatorial by-election, Babatunde Gbadamosi, was incompetent, defective and ought to be struck out.
The plaintiff claimed that Mr Abiru was ineligible for the election on grounds relating to alleged double voter registration and indigeneship. But Mr Abiru, who won the election by a landslide, polling 89,204 votes against his rival’s 11,257 votes, argued his objection to the suit through his counsel Kemi Pinheiro.
The lawyer told the judge that the Plaintiff’s suit was statute-barred, incompetent and was commenced via a wrong procedure.
Relying on his preliminary objection and written address, Mr Pinheiro observed that Mr Gbadamosi’s Originating Summons was “incompetently and inelegantly drafted” and contained “ungrantable reliefs.”
