Supreme court affirms AAdeleke_01 as Osun governor | TheCable
Delivering judgment on Tuesday, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the court of appeal correctly reinstated Adeleke as governor.A three-member panel of justices of the court of appeal held that the election tribunal erred when it ruled that the 1st and 2nd respondents proved their allegation of over-voting.The Osun governorship election tribunal, in January, held that Oyetola was able to prove that there was over-voting in some of the polling units.
Among several issues, Oyetola contended that there was overvoting in 749 polling units across 10 LGAs of the state., two out of the three-member panel of the tribunal held that the petitioner was able to prove that there was indeed over-voting in some of the polling units. “For the sake of emphasis, the total lawful votes for each of the candidates after the said deduction of the invalid votes is 314,931 for the first petitioner, and 290,666 for the second respondent,” Tetsea Kume, who read the majority decision, said.
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