Nigeria: Petition - Tribunal Orders Substituted Service on Fayose

24 July 2014

Following the inability of All Progressives Congress (APC) to personally serve the Ekiti State governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose all necessary papers challenging his victory at the June 21 governorship election, the tribunal sitting in Ado-Ekiti yesterday ordered that the respondent be served through substituted means.

In the application brought pursuant to Paragraph 8(2) of the First Schedule of the Electoral Act 2010 and under the inherent power of the court, the applicant, APC through its lawyer, Mr. Kabir Akingbolu, complained that efforts to serve Fayose by the court's bailiff had been futile.

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