The Supreme Court has adjourned indefinitely judgment in the legal battle on the Edo State Governorship Election Petition.
The apex court adjourned the judgment sine die after taking arguments for and against the election that produced Senator Monday Obekpolo as the governor of Edo State.
The presiding judge, Justice Garba Lawal, disclosed that the date for delivery of the judgment would be communicated to the parties involved.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate in the election, Asuen Ighodalo had approached the nation’s highest court, due to their dissatisfaction with the judgment of the lower courts.
Counsel to Ighodalo, Ken Mosia, SAN, prayed the Supreme Court to remove Obekpolo and pronounce the PDP candidate as the winner of the poll.
His ground was that he scored the majority of lawful votes in the election.
On the contrary, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), represented by Kanu Agabi, SAN, asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal in its entirety.
Agabi argued that Ighodalo and the PDP had, in their petition, stigmatized the election as invalid and unlawful on the ground of non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2022.
INEC’s counsel stated that having declared the election as unlawful and illegal, Ighodalo and the PDP cannot turn around and pray the court to declare them as winners of an illegality.
