The Federal Court of Appeal in Akure, the Ondo State capital has struck out the case filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state stopping the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission from conducting local government election in the state.
The presiding judge, Justice Folashade Olubanjo, quoting copiously from several sections of the Nigerian Constitution and previously decided cases at the Supreme Court, said that the Federal High Court does not have the jurisdiction over matters involving the conduct of local government elections.
She added that it would amount to judicial pettiness to make pronouncement on the suit when issues on the dissolution of the former councils were still pending before the Supreme Court.
The APC, the major opposition party in the state has since decided to boycott the elections, which is scheduled to hold on Saturday, April 23, 2016.
