Osun Gov Poll: Tribunal reserves judgment on Adeleke, PDP’s petition vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The Justice Ibrahim Sirajo led three-man panel tribunal reserved judgment on the petition that was lodged before it by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, after all the parties in the matter adopted their final briefs of argument.
“That the 1st applicant was the winner of the election and ought to have been so declared by the 3rd Respondent . That the 3rd Respondent declared the election inconclusive hence a rerun was conducted on the 27th day of September 2018. The petitioners argued that INEC ought to have declared Adeleke as winner of the election, saying there was no need for the subsequent supplementary election.
PDP and Adeleke said they tendered certified copies of mutilated and altered result sheets the INEC relied upon to declare Oyetola as winner of the election.The petitioners insisted that having tendered the documents, the onus was on INEC to call witnesses to justify those errors and mutilations, by presenting any other result sheet it used.
He therefore urged the tribunal to allow the appeal and grant all the reliefs sought by the petitioners. On his part, governor Oyetola’s lawyer, Chief Olanipekun, SAN, alleged that the petitioners had in their written address, not only admitted that they were complicit in the alleged electoral malpractices, but also presented a different case from what was contained in their pleadings and reliefs they sought before the tribunal.
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