Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Tunji Ogunrinde led 13 other lawyers to stand in as counsel to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the candidate of the party in the August 16, 2025, House of Representatives bye-election in Ibadan North federal constituency at the election petition Tribunal sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP), had filed a petition before the tribunal challenging the emergence of the PDP candidate Hon. Sunday Oyekunle Folajimi as the winner of the election.
In the petition with the suit number: EPT/OY/HR/01/2025, the SDP prayer that the election and return of Hon. Folajimi as member representing Ibadan North federal constituency is vitiated by non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2022 and further prayed the tribunal to cancel the bye election and conduct fresh or supplementary election in the affected polling units of the federal constituency.
On his part, Ogunrinde SAN, in his reply to the petition, also filed a notice of pleminirary objection challenging the competence of the petition for petitioner’s failure to comply with extant position of the Electoral Act 2022.
He, therefore, prayed the tribunal to dismiss the petition with substantial cost as same is baseless, gold-digging, frivolous, vexatious, petty and lacks merit.
At the resume of hearing, on Wednesday 15th of October, 2025, the Tribunal sought for the cooperation of all parties, including counsel and the court further adjourned to Thursday 16th of March, 2025.
