nomination of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as the APC governorship candidate in the 2016 governorship election in Ondo State.
In a ruling delivered by Justice Mohammed Musa Dattijo, the apex court agreed with Chief Akin Olujinmi , counsel to governor Akeredolu that the suit has been caught by 4th Alteration to the 1999 constitution and has therefore become incompetent in law. Olujinmi, who took an interlocutory matter before the apex court had drawn the attention of the five-man panel of the apex court to the validity of the case added that the entire suit by the governorship aspirant had died in view of the new law that a pre-election suit must be brought before court within 14 days for it to be valid.
Although counsel to Abraham, Prof Joash Amupitan had attempted to convince the apex court that the suit was not a pre-election matter, Justice Dattijo however l, in his ruling, held that the suit was a pre-election matter and had become incompetent since it was not filed within 14 days.