Former Ogbomoso lawmaker kayode akande sues ayodeji Adegoke

OGBOMOSO SOUTH: Kayode Akande sues Ayodeji Adegoke Maigida over 2027 ticket

Khalid ABRAHAM

Hon. Barrister Kayode Akande 11, an aspirant for the Ogbomoso South state constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has challenged the emergence of Ayodeji Adegoke (son of Dr Samson Adegoke a.k.a. Maigida), as the party’s candidate for the 2027 general elections.

In the suit marked FHC//2026, Akande II, who represented the constituency between 2015 and 2019 on the platform of the party, instituted the suit against the APC, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Adegoke as first, second and third defendants.

The aggrieved aspirant is asking the court to nullify Adegoke’s emergence as the party’s flagbearer, alleging that the party’s candidate in 2023 emerged through imposition instead of the stipulated direct primary or consensus contrary to sections 84, 87 of the Electoral Act 2026, Article 20 of 1st Respondent’s Constitution and provisions of 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria. averred the process thus “is unlawful, illegal, ultra vires, unconstitutional, null and void.”

In the originating summons filed on July 15 and obtained by ogbomosoinsightonline.com Friday, Akande II asked the court to determine whether Adegoke was validly returned in view of the jettisoning of the direct primary or consensus arrangement.

“Whether the nomination of the 3rd Respondent by the 1st Respondent to the 2nd Respondent as the candidate for the 2027 general election into Ogbomoso South State Constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly, having being imposed without being nominated via direct primary or consensus contrary to sections 84, 87 of the Electoral Act 2026, Article 20 of 1st Respondent’s Constitution and provisions of 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria is unlawful, illegal, ultra vires, unconstitutional, null and void.”

The plaintiff asked the court to declare that there was no primary and consensus for “the emergence of a candidate in Ogbomoso South State Constituency on 20th May, 2026, and as such any nomination is a gross violation of the provisions of the Electoral Act 2026, 1st Respondent’s Constitution, 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria and as such any purported result is null and void.”

He noted that the nomination of Adegoke amounts to an imposition, affirming it is illegal, unconstitutional and void in the face of the provisions of the Electoral Act 2026, APC’s constitution, and 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

The aspirant asked the court to declare the nomination as “unlawful, illegal, ultra vires, unconstitutional, null and void.”

He therefore prayed the court for an order setting aside the nomination of Adegoke as the party’s candidate for the 2027 general election for the Ogbomoso South State Constituency into the Oyo State House of Assembly asserting it is in excess of the statutory powers of APC.

He further sought an order of the court restraining INEC from accepting, recognizing and or treating Adegoke as the party’s candidate for the election.