Nullification of Ogun PDP primary: Court dismisses Ladi Adebutu’s application for stay of execution

By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta

The Federal High Court, sitting in Abeokuta, has dismissed an application for ‘stay of execution’ of the judgment delivered on the 27th of September, 2022, which nullified the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State.
When the matter came up on Thursday, counsel to Hon. Ladi Adebutu who won the primary, and the PDP, Mr. Muyiwa Obanewa told the court that he was abandoning the application for stay of execution and would seek to withdraw it because he was almost done compiling records and transmitting same to the Court of Appeal.
Thaddeus Idenyi of Kemi Pinheiro and co., who represented the plaintiffs, Taiwo Olabode and others, asked for cost because they had filed a response to the application for the stay of execution of the judgment. 
On his part, Mr. Deji Enisehin, counsel to Otunba Jimi Adebisi Lawal, urged the court to dismiss the application because it was dead on arrival.

He said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had already complied with the order of court by not recognizing Adebutu as the governorship candidate of the PDP in Ogun State.
In his ruling, Justice O.O. Oguntoyinbo, dismissed the application but refused to make any order as to cost.