Oyetola and his Deputy, Benedict Alabi, have also filed an application before the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to stay the execution of its judgment pending the final determination of the appeal.
Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has appealed the judgment of the Federal High Court which nullified his nomination as the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the last July 16 Osun governorship election.
Oyetola and his Deputy, Benedict Alabi, have also filed an application before the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to stay the execution of its judgment pending the final determination of the appeal.
In his ruling in the suit filed by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, nullified the candidacy of Oyetola and his deputy, Alabi.
Justice Nwite held that Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State who submitted their names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) violated the provisions of Section 183 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Section 82(3) of the Electoral Act, 2022.
But Channels TV reports that Governor Oyetola and Alabi in an appeal filed by the APC through their counsels, Abiodun Layonu (SAN) and Abdulfatai Oyedele, listed 19 grounds of appeal against the judgment of the Federal High Court.
The appellants who prayed the Court of Appeal to set aside the ruling of theFederal High Court and affirm their nominations as valid and lawful argued that the decision of the Federal High Court was against the weight of evidence tendered before the lower court and constitutes a grave miscarriage of justice.
They insisted that all the actions taken by Buni in respect of their nominations were valid and legal seeing that it did not violate the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
According to Governor Oyetola and his deputy, the setting up of the defunct Caretaker Committee/Extra-ordinary Planning Committee by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the APC did not violate the provision of the Constitution and Section 82(3) of the Electoral Act 2022.
The APC also maintained that the opposition PDP lacked the locus to commence the legal action against Governor Oyetola because the issue of nomination of a candidate was an internal affair of political parties and should not, therefore, be the PDP’s problem.