According to the governor, the Court of Appeal had specifically acted on the matter before the Federal High Court delivered its judgment.
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has faulted the Federal High Court judgment deregistering five political parties, describing the ruling as an abuse of court process and a direct violation of a subsisting order of the Court of Appeal.
Reacting to the judgment in a statement issued on Monday, Adeleke argued that the Court of Appeal had already ordered a stay of proceedings in the matter and questioned why the lower court proceeded to deliver a ruling despite the appellate court's intervention.
According to the governor, the Court of Appeal had specifically acted on the matter before the Federal High Court delivered its judgment.
In the statement issued in response to the ruling, the governor said "the Appeal Court had made an order for the stay of proceedings by the Federal High Court, more particularly the said judgment that was delivered,” the statement said, adding that Adeleke expressed surprise that the lower court proceeded to deliver a ruling on a matter that had already been acted upon by the Court of Appeal.
