 A federal high court sitting in a bill cut out the capital of urban state has nullified the candidature of the African Democratic Congress governorship candidate in the 2023 election, be Ottebehe as well as the party's state assembly candidates, saying that a primary election which produced Ottebehe and the state assembly candidates did not comply with the provision of the electoral act. It should be called that a labor party in the state had approached the court action of the court to compel the independent National Electrical Commission not to recognize the governorship candidates and others. The court presided over by Justice Akintayo Alucor, who affirmed that the primary election which produced Ottebehe and others did not comply with the electoral act. While the council to the labor party commended the judgment, the council to the ADC candidate said they may be compelled to appeal the judgment after access to the court judgment. The court has given judgments and it's no wisdom and it has found in favor of the plaintiffs. As you know, this is a contest. When we heard the other, it has to go the way it goes. But that's not the end of the case. We have applied, we have indicated to the courts that we are very, very interested in having access to the judgment as quick as possible with a view to sit down and analyze the judgment with the view of taking for that step with respect to the judgment. What are these steps you want to take for that step? As you know, year and year and constitutionally, every year and every party before the court whose judgment has been given against has the right, constitutional right, to approach the higher courts and to ventilate its grievances. There's some area which we feel we disagree with the judgment of this lawsuit that we intend to exploit before the court of appeal. What was that pronounced that you had contested? There are so many of them, there are so many of them that we feel that, you know, with respect to the trial judge, the position do not accord with the position of law. That is what we intend to exploit. Do you have a fair hearing? Not only fair hearing, we have local and other ideas. Some things I don't wish to discuss, you know, publicly now. Until we get a copy of the judgments, study it, analyze it and take for that step. And by the time we do that, you'll be, you know, promptly informed. You didn't make it, sir. First and foremost, we came to court to challenge the decision of INEC recognizing the name of the governorship candidate of ADC. Among other names of candidates emerged, or that was published in the finalist that was published on the 4th of November. Sorry, October this year. So we came to court to see, well, these people, they didn't conduct any valid primary. From the information available to us, they conducted the primary, they put the primary on the 4th, on the 12th, and they noticed the gift to INEC was on the 15th of the same month, which means three days after they have publicly conducted their primary. And we said it cannot be valid either below, in the view of Section 84 and 87 of the Electoral Act, which mandated that every primary must be monitored by INEC. And so we ran to court to challenge the decision of INEC. And of course, there is preliminary objection to say, well, we are not members of the party, we are not an aspirant of the party, that therefore we could not have complained about what transpired. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.