The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Friday, dismissed an appeal filed by two governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, seeking to disqualify the party’s candidate, Asue Ighodalo, from the forthcoming governorship election scheduled for September 21.
The appellants, Arthur Esene and Anselm Ojezua, had approached the appellate court to challenge the April 17, 2024, judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which dismissed their suit for being statute-barred.
However, the three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, led by Justice Hamma Barka, upheld the decision of the trial court, ruling that the suit filed by Ojezua and four others was submitted out of time and was therefore statute-barred.
