The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area in the October 22 2011 council election in Lagos State, Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro, has said that threats to his life had increased in recent times.
Obanikoro said the police and other security agencies had been alerted, while he continuously got countless phone calls, telling him that he was being watched and unmarked cars trailing him wherever he went.
Obanikoro also decried the indefinite adjournment of the Appeal Court Tribunal sitting on the case filled by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its candidate in the election, Mr. Wale Adeniji, against the judgment of the election petition tribunal, which declared him the winner of the election on October 4, 2012.
Speaking at a press conference at the weekend in Lagos, Obanokoro urged the Chief Judge of Lagos, Justice Ayotunde Philips, to urgently “wade into the matter to defend and protect the image of the judiciary in Lagos State.”
He said the indefinite adjournment of the case came unaware as the tribunal had two weeks ago fixed November 15, for the final argument and announcement of the judgment. The statement reads in parts: “Two weeks ago, the court adjourned to 15th of November for final argument and to announce date of judgment.
We arrived in court and to our surprise though not unexpected, the secretary of the court announced an adjournment of the case sine die without reason. In the Nigerian history of election appeal court, this situation will be precedent. There has never been a situation where the court adjourns sine die on an election appeal before hearing the case.”
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