Ikoyi-Obalende LCDA polls: Obanikoro’s supporters protest delay in appeal hearing

Supporters of Ibrahim Obanikoro, son of Musuliu Obanikoro, a former Nigeria High Commissioner to Ghana, on Monday, stormed a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja to protest the indefinite adjournment of the appeal tribunal which was supposed to hear the petition filed by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Adewale Adeniji.

Obanikoro was declared winner of the Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area by the Lagos State election petition tribunal.

The supporters converged on the Lagos State judiciary premises as early as 8.00a.m. to make known their grievances

Obanikoro's supporters stated that the indefinite adjournment of the matter was an attempt to truncate it and allow Adeniji to continue as chairman.

The protesters, who carried placards with numerous inscriptions, said they would resist any attempt to frustrate the judgment delivered by the election petition tribunal.

According to one of the protesters, Abiodun Komolafe, there was a suspicion of foul play with the indefinite adjournment of the ACN appeal and the continued stay of Adeniji as chairman of the local development council.

A five-man election petition tribunal had, last month, nullified the declaration of Adeniji as winner of the election in the local development council, where the ACN national leader and former Lagos State governor, Chief Bola Tinubu, resides and declared Obanikoro as the duly elected chairman of the area.