A High Court sitting in Ilorin has dismissed a certificate forgery case filed against Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State following the claimant’s application to withdraw the case.
Justice Adenike Akinpelu struck out the case on Wednesday after Adekunle Abraham, a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who filed the case, announced its withdrawal.
Akinpelu ruled that the withdrawal meant that the efforts of Olusola Olaseinde who wanted to join the suit were inconsequential since the original case had been withdrawn.
The governor has since his election won several court cases filed by a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Ishola Balogun-Fulani, an ally of the former Senate President Bukola Saraki.
Mr Balogun-Fulani had filed a suit challenging the candidature of Mr AbdulRazaq, but the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court dismissed the case, affirming that the governor was rightly nominated by the APC National Working Committee led by Adams Oshiomhole.
Following the dismissal of Balogun-Fulani’s case, a member of the Saraki-led PDP, filed a case alleging that AbdulRazaq did not have the requisite qualifications to run for the office of governor.
