A Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Tuesday, adjourned hearing into a suit filed by two members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ogun State, seeking the disqualification of the party’s senatorial candidate in Ogun East, Prince Buruji Kashamu, in the March 28 National Assembly election.

One Waliu Saula and Dele Ajayi, from Ward 003, Sagamu Local Government and Ward 008, Ijebu North council areas, had approached the court for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognizing Kashamu as the senatorial candidate of the party in Ogun East.

In the suit no FCH/AB/CS/ 19/2015, the plaintiffs urged the court to restrain Kashamu, who is the first defendant in the suit from contesting the election as the candidate of the party for the senatorial seat and subsequent elections in the country as organized by INEC.

Counsel for the plaintiffs, Dr Yemi Oke, said the hearing of the case was on the order of the court, because it had an originating summon and a Motion on Notice before it.

However, counsel for first and second respondents, Ifeoma Essiong, told the court that the first defendant, Kashamu, had not been served the court processes as regard the matter, adding that a notice of preliminary objection had been served on Oke.

She argued that the matter could not come up for hearing based on the objection filed on Tuesday morning, arguing that Kashamu read about the suit on the pages of newspapers.

The presiding judge, Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo, told counsel for Kashamu that her client had been served the processes on Tuesday, as against her position that he (Kashamu) was not yet served.

She, therefore, adjourned hearing on the substantive suit and preliminary objection filed by Kashamu till March 12.