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Ex- Minister, Shittu, looses at Supreme Court

&NewLine;<p>Adebayo&NewLine;Shittu&comma; former Minister of Communications&comma; 2015-2019&comma; who had instituted a case&NewLine;against his party&comma; All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&comma; on the grounds of being&NewLine;denied participation in the 2019 governorship primary in Oyo State&comma; lost at the&NewLine;Supreme Court on July 18&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Among&NewLine;other things&comma; he claimed &nbsp&semi;that APC’s&NewLine;national leadership omitted his name in the list of its governorship aspirants&NewLine;for the primaries in Oyo State because he did not participate in the National&NewLine;Youth Service Corps scheme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>His&NewLine;counsel urged the court to determine whether the ground for disqualifying his&NewLine;client was lawful or in contravention of the constitution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He&NewLine;argued that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria required anyone&NewLine;seeking to be a state governor to possess a maximum of Senior Secondary School&NewLine;Certificate and not necessarily an NYSC certificate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Adebayo&NewLine;Ojo&comma; the defence counsel&comma; in his opposition to the plaintiff’s prayer&comma; said&NewLine;that the matter was already a dead issue&comma; and therefore&comma; academic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In&NewLine;its ruling&comma; the Supreme Court&comma; in a unanimous verdict by a five-man panel led&NewLine;by Justice John Okoro&comma; dismissed the suit for being statute-barred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This&NewLine;appeal is dismissed haven been withdrawn by the appellant and no objection and&NewLine;there is no order as at cost&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Justice Okoro said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;Oyo State chapter of the ruling party prevented Shittu from participating in&NewLine;its primary election because he skipped the mandatory one-year NYSC after his&NewLine;graduation from the Obafemi Awolowo University in 1978&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Ex- Communication Minister&comma; Shittu&comma; looses again <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Adebayo&NewLine;Shittu&comma; former Minister of Communications&comma; 2015-2019&comma; who had instituted a case&NewLine;against his party&comma; All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&comma; on the grounds of being&NewLine;denied participation in the 2019 governorship primary in Oyo State&comma; lost at the&NewLine;Supreme Court on July 18&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Among&NewLine;other things&comma; he claimed &nbsp&semi;that APC’s&NewLine;national leadership omitted his name in the list of its governorship aspirants&NewLine;for the primaries in Oyo State because he did not participate in the National&NewLine;Youth Service Corps scheme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>His&NewLine;counsel urged the court to determine whether the ground for disqualifying his&NewLine;client was lawful or in contravention of the constitution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He&NewLine;argued that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria required anyone&NewLine;seeking to be a state governor to possess a maximum of Senior Secondary School&NewLine;Certificate and not necessarily an NYSC certificate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Adebayo&NewLine;Ojo&comma; the defence counsel&comma; in his opposition to the plaintiff’s prayer&comma; said&NewLine;that the matter was already a dead issue&comma; and therefore&comma; academic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In&NewLine;its ruling&comma; the Supreme Court&comma; in a unanimous verdict by a five-man panel led&NewLine;by Justice John Okoro&comma; dismissed the suit for being statute-barred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This&NewLine;appeal is dismissed haven been withdrawn by the appellant and no objection and&NewLine;there is no order as at cost&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Justice Okoro said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;Oyo State chapter of the ruling party prevented Shittu from participating in&NewLine;its primary election because he skipped the mandatory one-year NYSC after his&NewLine;graduation from the Obafemi Awolowo University in 1978&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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