Court quashes Edo Speaker’s suit

The Federal High Court in Benin City, Edo State, has thrown out the suit by Speaker of the House of Assembly, Kabiru Adjoto, over the conduct of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries for Akoko-Edo Federal Constituency.

Peter Akpatason was declared winner of the primaries.

Adjoto approached the court seeking to be declared the party’s candidate for the seat.

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Justice Muktar Umar said the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. He also held that Adjoto did not follow internal party mechanism to seek redress before rushing to court.

But Adjoto said he was not satisfied with the judgment, and vowed to pursue the case to the Supreme Court.