By Olamide Lasisi
The Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Students' Union Government (SUG) Judicial Council has declared the 2025 SUG general election which was proposed to be held on Tuesday, January 21,2025, "Barred and stayed from holding."
This declaration by the OOUSUG Supreme Court was made known to the students' community through a memorandum circulated in the late hours of Monday, January 20.
This decision was made due to the pending disqualification petition of Comrade Kabiru Toheeb Omotoyosi, popularly known as Cashlink from the SUG presidential race in the forthcoming 38th SUG election.
The memo reads in part: "Upon the granted exparte application of Appellant for Leave of this court below, (Petition Electoral Commission) in the case between parties aforementioned, and an application for an order of interlocutory injunction filled therein, and upon further consideration of the circumstances of this appeal, including but not limited to the limited timeframe for actions and the preservation of res, the application for injunction is consequently GRANTED.
"IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that the conduct of the 2025 OOUSUG election is BARRED and STAYED from holding on the proposed date of 21st of January, 2025 pending the determination of the in this court.
"IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that all further proceedings in the action filled by the Respondent against the Appellant before the lower court be and are hereby STAYED pending the hearing and determination of this appeal.
The court has thus ruled that any individual or entity that acts in defiance of the orders shall be deemed 'prima facie null and void.'
"Any such undertaking or acts by any individual or body contrary to the provisions of these orders are hereby declared prima facie NULL AND VOID.
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