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  A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday fixed December 1 for judgment in the legal battle on the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State. Justice Inyang Ekwo fixed the date after taking arguments from parties embroiled in the legal battle on the disputed ticket. At the centre of the dispute were Otunba Jimi Adebisi Lawal and Oladipupo Adebutu, both governorship aspirants of the PDP and laying claim and counterclaim to the ticket. Jimi Lawal who contested the May 25 governorship primary election of PDP had challenged the emergence of Oladipupo Adebutu alleging that an unlawful and invalid delegates list was fraudulently used by PDP to conduct the election. Among others, Lawal had prayed that the purported primary election of May 25 is cancelled and another one be conducted with the authentic Adhoc delegates. However, Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in his judgment delivered on July 29 declined to hear the suit of Jimi Lawal on merit on the...