The campaign organisation of former Osun State Deputy Governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has confirmed the withdrawal of a lawsuit challenging the disqualification of several governorship aspirants by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement issued on Thursday in Osogbo and signed by its Director-General, Ajibola Famurewa, the organisation said the decision to discontinue the case followed interventions by senior leaders of the ruling party.
According to the statement, the suit was earlier filed at the Federal High Court in Osogbo after the party’s screening panel disqualified seven of the eight aspirants ahead of the APC governorship primary in Osun State.
According to the campaign organisation, “the legal action, marked FHC/OS/CS/261/2025 – Senator Iyiola Omisore v. APC & ANR, was instituted to test the legality of the panel’s decision.”
Famurewa said “the suit questioned whether the party had the authority to impose conditions for qualification or disqualification of aspirants beyond those stipulated in the Electoral Act 2022 and the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria.”
The originating summons, dated December 9, 2025, had asked “the Federal High Court to determine if the APC could lawfully disqualify Omisore despite his alleged fulfilment of the constitutional requirements to contest in the governorship primary.”
Among the reliefs sought was “a declaration that the party could not validly exclude him from participating in the primary election having satisfied the provisions of Sections 177 and 182 of the Constitution.”
The suit also sought an order nullifying the alleged disqualification and compelling the APC to recognise Omisore as an aspirant in its governorship primary ahead of the state election.
The former deputy governor asked the court to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognising any primary conducted by the APC to produce a candidate for the governorship election in Osun State.
Famurewa explained that “the case became widely known after details from the court’s cause list for March 2 circulated on social media, where the matter appeared as the eleventh case scheduled for hearing before Justice Adefunmilola Demi-Ajayi.”
However, he stated that the case was later withdrawn after consultations and appeals from senior party leaders.
“Upon the intervention of the President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande and other well-meaning leaders, Senator Omisore decided to honour the request to follow the party’s decision,” the statement read.
The campaign organisation urged members of the APC and the public to disregard reports suggesting that the case was still pending, stressing the importance of unity within the party ahead of the forthcoming governorship election scheduled for August 15 in Osun State.