2027 : Court Orders INEC To Publish Ladi Adebutu Name As Ogun PDP Guber Candidate
Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court Abuja has ordered INEC to restore Ogun State PDP governorship candidate Ladi Adebutu on the final list of candidates for the Ogun governorship election. He said INEC had no right to remove any candidate sponsored by a political party without a court order. Justice Lifu said only the Federal High Court or the state’s high court has the power to declare a candidate invalid and not the commission. He held that INEC breached Adebutu’s…