A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed March 27 to deliver judgement in the suit filed by Alhaji Ayinla Kolawole Jimoh challenging the election of the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, as the Senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Auta, adjourned till March 27 to decide whether Saraki is the authentic candidate of the PDP for the last year’s senatorial election after the parties adopted their briefs of argument in the matter.
The plaintiff, a Second Republic gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Republican Party (PRP), joined the PDP, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and former governor Saraki as co-defendants in the matter.