PDP Guber Ticket: Supreme Court dismisses Jimi Lawal’s interlocutory appeals

PEOPLES GAZETTE

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two interlocutory appeals brought before it by an aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Jimi Lawal.

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun dismissed the two appeals following their dramatic withdrawal by the appellant’s counsel, Chukwudi Enebeli.

Mr Lawal and another chieftain of the PDP in Ogun, Oladipupo Adebutu, were locked in a fierce legal battle on who should fly the party’s flag at the governorship election.

The odds have, however, favoured Mr Adebutu following the dismissal of Mr Lawal’s suit at the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

In the instant matter, Mr Lawal had filed two appeals challenging the use of the court record transmitted by another party and the procedural policy in accepting and using the disputed record.

At proceedings, a five-member panel of justices of the apex court subjected the appellant’s counsel to questioning over the desirability of pursuing Interlocutory appeals at the expense of the substantive matter.