An Osun High Court sitting in Osogbo has adjourned till Wednesday ruling in the certificate suit involving Senator Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the September 22 governorship election in the state.
Justice David Oladimeji adjourned proceedings on Monday after all parties had accessed the relevant documents.
Two members of the PDP in the state had approached the court for an interlocutory order setting aside the election of Adeleke as the PDP governorship flag bearer over alleged non-submission of his Secondary School leaving certificate.
Rasheed Olabayo and Oluwaseun Idowu, in the suit filed on July 24, are arguing that he did not satisfy the constitutional requirements to contest the governorship election.
Counsel to the plaintiffs, Olufemi Ayandokun, had earlier told the court that the certificate tendered by Adeleke to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the court was forged.
He urged the court to take judicial notice of the date the certificate was issued and the year stated on it.
The counsel argued that at the time the certificate was issued, Osun had not been created as a state, describing the certificate as fake.
Ayandokun prayed the court to adopt and rely on the written address in support of the response to the notice of preliminary objections and asked the court to strike out the counter-affidavits.
Defence counsel, Edmund Boriomoni, told the court to strike out the originating summons and the motion on notice for want of competency and jurisdiction.
He urged the court to dismiss the suit filed against his client for lacking in merit.
