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| Osun Tribunal: Adeleke, PDP Failed To Defend Over-voting, Forgery Allegations by Okerenla: 3:29pm On Dec 27, 2022 |
https://www.newsindicator.com.ng/2022/12/27/osun-tribunal-adeleke-pdp-failed-to-defend-over-voting-forgery-allegations/ Osun Tribunal: Adeleke, PDP failed to defend over-voting, forgery allegations By Adebayo Adedeji There appears to be fire on the mountain for the new governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, as the life of their infant administration is threatened in view of the seemingly lacklustre and weak defence put forward by their counsels during the hearing of the Osun State Governornship Election Petition Tribunal. Rather than calling the right witnesses that would help their case and impugn the allegation of over-voting and forgery leveled against Adeleke, the respondents' counsels chose to revel in showmanship, farcicality and banality. They, strangely, left their burden of proof to be carried and shouldered by the petitioners. Whereas it is trite in law that facts of common knowledge need no be proved in court, the political worshippers of the "interim" governor in Abere believe otherwise. They reason that Oyetola should have gone a step further to parade witnesses, from WAEC, NECO, NYSC, to establish his forgery allegation against their idol. According to Section 124 of the Evidence Act 2011: (1) Proof shall not be required of a fact the knowledge of which is not reasonably open to question and which is – (a) common knowledge in the locality in which the proceeding is being held, or generally; or (b) Capable of verification by reference to a document the authority of which cannot reasonably be questioned. It is common knowledge that a WAEC result must show an examination number and grade obtained by the candidate. It is common knowledge that NECO was established in 1999, and not in 1981! It is common knowledge that NYSC only issues Exclusion letter to part-time or online graduate, and not Exemption certificate as we have it in the case of Adeleke. It is also common knowledge that Osun State was created in 1991; and therefore a document purpotedly issued in 1988, but bearing Osun State, as related to Adeleke's secondary school testimonial, is fake. So it is ludicrous to read warped arguments being canvassed by some political devotees of the current government shifting the burden of proof, on what is common knowledge, to the petitioners. Let's ask: on whose requests were the WAEC official and Ede Muslim Grammar School's Principal summoned to the Bwari High Court in 2019 when Adeleke's 1981 May/June result was a subject of litigation? Adeleke and PDP's requests, of course! So, why did they choose to play ostrich this time around? Matter-of-factly, the respondents had the opportunity to invite an official of the West African Examination Council to validate the dancing governor's 1981 Nov/Dec GCE result questioned by the petitioners. Instead, a Bunmi Jenyo, Adeleke's domestic staff, was brought forth to speak on documents that do not belong to him. Witness Jenyo became a "cynosure" of all eyes at the Tribunal when he struggled to prove that his Nigerian travel passport was the only evidence in his possession to demonstrate that, (1), he attended the graduation ceremony of Adeleke, and (2), that his principal did not obtain a degree from Atlanta Metropolitan State College 24 days after he completed his Penn Foster High School studies. Legal opinions differ, but consensus is that what petitioners needed to have done on the issue of over-voting was to tarnish the credibility of the alternate election reports presented by the two star witnesses for the respondents, Mrs Abimbola Oladunjoye (INEC ICT Deputy Director) and Mr Samuel Oduntan ( a forensic examiner). And this responsibility counsels for petitioners discharged creditably. Oladunjoye, for example, did not only agree that over-voting took place in the July 16 election, she confirmed that the result upon which Adeleke was announced winner of the contest was untidy and incomplete as at July 17 when the Commission declared him Osun governor-elect. 1 Like |
| Re: Osun Tribunal: Adeleke, PDP Failed To Defend Over-voting, Forgery Allegations by adesola89: 4:17pm On Dec 27, 2022 |
So how many times do you want them to invite WAEC to come and testify? And were daft to see that a judgement of the court of appeal has been submitted? If you don't know, the onus is mostly on the petitioner to show that his evidence of over-voting are based on analysis of primary source document which your political adviser turned expert failed to prove. Your crying remains one. Just wait till the end of January when Tribunal will give judgement. Okerenla: |
| Re: Osun Tribunal: Adeleke, PDP Failed To Defend Over-voting, Forgery Allegations by Okerenla: 4:41pm On Dec 27, 2022 |
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| Re: Osun Tribunal: Adeleke, PDP Failed To Defend Over-voting, Forgery Allegations by frank14011991(m): 4:51pm On Dec 27, 2022 |
I am an APC supporter, but this report seems biased. Over voting yes, but his waec has been verified. |
| Re: Osun Tribunal: Adeleke, PDP Failed To Defend Over-voting, Forgery Allegations by Okerenla: 5:13pm On Dec 27, 2022 |
frank14011991: Which WAEC? This one?
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| Re: Osun Tribunal: Adeleke, PDP Failed To Defend Over-voting, Forgery Allegations by 9jahotblog: 6:22pm On Dec 27, 2022 |
Okerenla: OYETOLA'S DUMMIES AND A DATE WITH FATE AT THE TRIBUNAL. By: Abioye Hashim Esq. The word "dummy" can pass for a noun or a verb. In whichever context it is used, it is pointing to something not real or realistic. As a noun, it means an object created to resemble or serve as a substitute for the real or usual one. It could mean a model or replica of a thing or a human being. It could mean a fake object or a feigned thing, a simulation. It could be used to describe a person who is ignorant of the real situation, someone who has been deceived and who has bought seriously into the deceit. As a verb, a person is said to be "dummied" if that person has been deceived about the real situation. The election petition filed by former Osun Governor Oyetola and his APC at the Osun Governorship Election Tribunal after their defeat at the July 16th Osun 2022 governorship election, can unarguably pass for a dummy. The petition is majorly based on two planks viz: (i) forgery (ii) over-voting/non-compliance. The two (2) planks form the two (2) wings with which Oyetola and his party's petition want to fly at the Tribunal. Sadly for the petitioners, the two (2) wings are dummies which cannot fly or be used to fly at all. The first wing being the dummy of forgery was sold to Oyetola by some saboteurs within Osun PDP (who have now decamped to another Party), while Oyetola himself procured another one by himself for himself from somewhere else. That is what desperation, lust for power and arrogance can bring about. The dummy of forgery was on the basis of the academic credentials of Senator Ademola Adeleke. He was alleged to have forged the degree certificate of Atlanta Metropolitan College, USA, and the High School Diploma Certificate of Penn Foster College, also in USA. They also alleged that he forged the documents he presented as evidence of attendance at Ede Muslim High School, Ede (Formerly Ede Muslim Grammar School). The dummy in the said allegation of forgery is the reasoning of the petitioners that Adeleke got a degree 24 days after his high school diploma which is an O' level equivalent with the insinuation that the diploma was the basis for the degree. That is, the diploma was the qualification he used to gain admission for rye degree. The insistence of the APC's counsel at the Tribunal for INEC to bring the original form cf001 submitted by Adeleke to INEC in 2018 was to achieve one thing.. to show to the Tribunal that from the 2018 documents, Adeleke had nothing to qualify him for any admission abroad for a degree. The other aim, which would seem like eating one's vomit, is an attempt to re-open the issue of Adeleke's attainment and education up to school certificate level, in respect of which the courts have pronounced in the past, and Adeleke vindicated. The dummy was finely packaged for Oyetola and he himself so much bought into it that he could not discern the obvious reality that Adeleke's degree and the high school diploma are not related at all. They are independent of each other. Adeleke's academic journey abroad started in 1981 when he got admission into Jacksonville University, USA, using his cumulative school grades plus ACT/TOEFL. He later transferred his course to Atalanta Metropolitan College, USA in 1986, and he was in and out for school for business until he completed his degree in 2021. His academic transcripts have now become public documents and certified true copies of same can be obtained from the Tribunal. This was the dummy of forgery propounded to high heavens by the APC and Oyetola loyalists. They have polluted the media space with their terrible lies and propaganda against Adeleke. They even circulated a fake NECO result which they recklessly ascribed to Adeleke, however, such was never established to be part of Adeleke's documents at the Tribunal. I read many newspaper headlines and also in the social media that "Adeleke's witness admitted he (Adeleke)got a degree within 24 days. That's pretty sensational! Everyone will want to pay an attention to the headlines, and by which a reader who is not at home with the facts and evidence at the Tribunal will come to a conclusion that Adeleke forged. With that, they would have satisfied themselves by way of propaganda, to curry undue sympathy from the public, on the basis of a non-existent forgery. That is Oyetola's first dummy at the Tribunal. The second dummy is the alleged over-voting. The APC has another dummy in their unsynchronised BVAS report. Their case is erected not on the actual BVAS machine figures and the result sheets, but on a report from the INEC server. By the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022, section 62 thereof, any ctc of a document used for an election whether manual or electronic is a post-election procedure. This pre-supposes that it is not part of the election at all, as there is a procedure for step-by-step recording of votes during the election as provided for in the Electoral Act, 2022. To establish over-voting, it has to be on the basis of the physical materials deployed to the polling units during the election, in this case, the ballot papers, the electoral forms, the voters register and the BVAS machine itself. The Petitioners are not relying on any of these to establish over-voting but an external document, a total stranger to the polling unit during the polls. A certified true copy of a public document not in agreement with the original public document is like an illegitimate child. I laughed and laughed when a snippet of the cross-examination of a Deputy-Director became a subject of APC propaganda where she mentioned "seemingly over-voting", but the portion where she explained that away was deliberately and wickedly kept away by the media propagandists. You cannot establish over-voting on the basis of any document aside the four I mentioned earlier. The witness explained this, but the media propagandists shouted to radio and TV stations (including TVC) where the issue of the purported admission of over-voting was discussed while the propagandist seemingly buried the explanation given by the witness under re-examination. A trip to the registry of the Tribunal for certified true copies of the proceedings and documents received in evidence whether with or without objection would have helped in the media analyses if the media would play their role of responsibility to the public. These are the two giant dummies of Oyetola and his APC which are now having a date with fate at the Tribunal as dates for adoption of final addresses and judgement draw nearer. The APC are propaganda personified. Save for very few among them, they are generally wicked, terrible and arrogant in power. They carry their business with reckless abandon and unparalleled impunity. In Osun, they converted and conferred by themselves, on themselves, many public assets and still roll out propaganda against the present administration for asking questions in that regard, for calling on them honourably to return state assets. Such is the set of immediate past political office holders in Osun that Osun people have been grappling with. They want to retain power at all cost, they never dreamt of living the corridors of power for a second. The "Aagbeelemo" crooners are now singing another song " A ma gba pada". They are planning based on their dummies at the Tribunal which have no wings to fly. Their dummies, like all dummies, have no life and they now face a date with fate at the Tribunal. |
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