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Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by Jayboi(m): 9:05am On Jan 21, 2023
What an evil party. So bent on subjugating the will of the people. God will never let us see another APC in my Osun again. Retirees, workers and the general populace now have a renewed hope because of Adeleke. Tinubu is next. O ma lule ni.

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Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by Nobody: 9:05am On Jan 21, 2023
They should try 419days grin
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by oneMalik: 9:09am On Jan 21, 2023
God is not integrated in you game !

Very dirty !

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Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by Shikini: 9:12am On Jan 21, 2023
Thief Oyetola

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Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by callthefred: 9:12am On Jan 21, 2023
9jahotblog:
the same judiciary will throw out Oyetola case for lacking merit in court of justice. Oyetola tun ma lule piii Lekan siii. Tinubu is next to collect his own breakfast. 😝😝😝😝😝

The reality of the law far outweighs the threats and beer parlour argument. I was in court for this proceedings and trust me it is a 50-50 chance based on the law. Most of what APC sort to prove will not fly but there's one which has to do with documents Gov Adeleke submitted in 2018. The law says any documents you submit to INEC at any time can be used against you in the future. If the APC lawyers can tackle that well they might just steal the victory.

I pray they make another mistake like Lateef Fagbemi did in court by having the panel set aside the initial ruling on the admission on BVAS. If he hasn't made that mistake that day, I can assure you it would have been over for Gov. Adeleke.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by Heffalump(m): 9:26am On Jan 21, 2023
We all know where this drama is heading to.
All these brouhaha is because one individual is pushing from behind. It's no other person than Tinubu. Oyetola is just a visible figure in the whole arena. But it's dead on arrival! INEC has invariably passed the judgement ahead of the tribunal.

I've always been saying it that unless people like Tinubu and Oshiomole retires from active politics, Nigerian democracy will always be threatened.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by bigwig10(m): 9:34am On Jan 21, 2023
It is only on nigeria that such stupid things happen, fast & pray cos of ruling,if the right thing was done,wuld u have to fast & pray, when most nigerians wuld have head n cant & wont be able to reason with it....

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Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by 9jahotblog: 9:49am On Jan 21, 2023
callthefred:


The reality of the law far outweighs the threats and beer parlour argument. I was in court for this proceedings and trust me it is a 50-50 chance based on the law. Most of what APC sort to prove will not fly but there's one which has to do with documents Gov Adeleke submitted in 2018. The law says any documents you submit to INEC at any time can be used against you in the future. If the APC lawyers can tackle that well they might just steal the victory.

I pray they make another mistake like Lateef Fagbemi did in court by having the panel set aside the initial ruling on the admission on BVAS. If he hasn't made that mistake that day, I can assure you it would have been over for Gov. Adeleke.
kikiki it’s preelection matter and it will never hold any water in the court of justice. Oyetola case will be dismissed for lacking merit in the tribunal court of justice. Oyetola tun ma lule piii Lekan siii
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by frank14011991(m): 9:57am On Jan 21, 2023
AdaojoTheUrchin:
If the judiciary tries another supreme court governor rubbish again. They will have their hands full with Nigerians.

People will spend hours queuing to vote their choice, then with the stroke of a pen, a few corrupt judges will take money, will kick out the elected one and then appoint a different candidate who came 3rd or 4th in the election like they did in Imo. A call for anarchy. Now look at the once peaceful Imo state. Let them just try it again..
but when it happened in ZAMFARA and bayelsa you didn't complain

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Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by christistruth01: 10:05am On Jan 21, 2023
Oyetola Lost

They should fast and Pray for God to help him to bear his loss Peacefully and with Wisdom
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by ayo2008: 10:14am On Jan 21, 2023
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by Etimemy: 11:09am On Jan 21, 2023
God will never answer the prayer of the wicked .
APC is wicked
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by onyxo76(m): 11:21am On Jan 21, 2023
same way bandits and kidnappers will do 3 day fasting and prayer for a successful outing. una don turn God to just anyhow person abi.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by babalose: 11:54am On Jan 21, 2023
the people are already fasting because you have stolen their common wealth
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by John4B: 2:19pm On Jan 21, 2023
God cannot be mocked. In a sane clime oyetola is suppose to be chilling behind the bars but the case here is different. So, oyetola should enyoy his loot in peace and leave God out of it.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by Menclothing: 3:47pm On Jan 21, 2023
Why fast if u win
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by joba4luv: 4:41pm On Jan 21, 2023
Set of lunatics politicians our God is not a partial one you can't deceive God but man even if they continue to fast and pray till next 10 years APC the disaster party will continue to fail IJN
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by drlateef: 5:04pm On Jan 21, 2023
9jahotblog:
30 Grounds Why Tribunal Should Dismiss Oyetola's Petition- INEC, PDP & Adeleke

Respondents in the peition filed by former Governor Gboyega Oyetola against the election of Governor Ademola Adeleke have canvassed 30 grounds why the election Tribunal should dismiss the petition with cost awarded against the petitioners.

In a separate final addresses, counsels to the respondents took turn to demolish the petition, positing that the petitioners have failed to substantiate its allegations of over-voting and certificate forgery.

Counsel to the 1st respondent, the electoral commission, Prof Paul Ananaba SAN who filed reply on point of law raised objection to the documents tendered by the petitioners on 30th of December 2022 and filed on the same day.

He said the petitioner failed grossly in proving the allegations raised against the return of Governor Ademola Adeleke in the July 16 governorship election, urging the court to dismiss the petition in its entirety.

He submitted that the law empowers the INEC to accept the nomination of a candidate once it is satisfied that it met requirements, citing the case of Atiku vs INEC where court pronounced that President Buhari is eminently qualified to contest elections.

"By section 318 of the Constitution, our duty is very clear. All INEC is expected to do is to be satisfy that the applicant is qualify. And Section 318 talked about what is allowed and from the form submitted by the 2nd respondent, INEC was satisfied and that was what the Constitution requires. We took notice that the Second respondent was a former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria," he noted.

On the issue of synchronization of result as being challenged by APC and Mr Oyetola, he submitted to the Tribunal that the petitioner based its petition on an inaccurate data, and so, can not establish the case of over-voting.

He quoted Section 62 (1-3) of the Electoral Act that empowers the Commission to continuously update the result of elections housed in its database, explaining this as the basis for the synchronization of the data in its custody.

"Much more my Lord, the petitioner made a heavy weather on Exhibit BVR. My Exhibit BVR date January 27 was a report of accreditation for the entire units in Osun state, which is 3763 units. And in the Tribunal, the BVR has been presented by the petitioner by what it is not," he explained

Anababa, SAN, said the APC hurriedly went to the INEC to demand for the result of the election while synchronization was still ongoing, adding that the APC filled their case prematurely.

He submitted to the Tribunal that the law is clear that over-voting can only be established when the number of votes in a unit is compared with the complete accreditation data, urging the court to accept Exhibit RVBR as the complete accreditation data.

"By Section 62 (3) and 74(1) gave birth to Exhibit RBVR. The petitioners came to the Tribunal prematurely," he submitted.


"Since the law as at 2022 was that this record of election is updated on a continuous basis, a petitioner will file petition when he is sure of the basis.

"I submit that the petitioners were not diligent because the petition was in disregard of Section 62 (3) therefore, I submit that there is no basis for this petition.

"RWC was a certified true copy of a physical examination of the BVAS machines used for the election, which is more reliable. And we brought the BVAS machines. BVAS machines are the raw primary evidence.

"Even when there is a conflict at the polling unit on whether accreditation, Section 64 (6a&b) specifies what needs to be done. We have presented the original data, the petitioner supposed to bring form EC8A, which are the basis for the declaration of results, not a report. Results were not declared based on BVAS report but based on collated results."

Anababa however urged the court to dismiss the case for lack of merit, maintaining that the election was conducted in full compliance of the law.

In his own submission, the counsel to Governor Ademola Adeleke, Dr. Onyebuchi Ikpeazu, SAN, prayed the court to dismiss the petition for lacking merit, noting that the 2nd respondents election as Osun State Governor was in order.

He argued that the petitioners failed to call any evidence to support its weighty allegation as required by the law, maintaining that the respondents did not forge any document as alleged.


"The petitioners did not call any documentary evidence that he didn't satisfy the requirements of Section 177(d) of the Constitution. The document and requisite evidence that they are obligated to call witnesses from the institutions to disown documents that were allegedly forged by the 2nd respondent.

"That burden and standard of proof must be beyond reasonable doubt has not been discharged by the petitioner. EW2 owned up that he didn't know anything about the institution or worked with the makers of the document presented by the 2nd respondent."

He cited a judgement of the Appeal Court on similar issue which affirmed the eligibility of the 2nd respondent, stressing that by law the judgement is still in effect as no appeal was filed to challenge it

"Also, there is a court judgement of the Appeal Court, which means judgement in rem."

On the issue of over-voting, he said the petitioners based it claims on erroneous grounds and so should not be entertained by the Tribunal.

"My Lord, the petitioner star witness, he did not tender any BVAS report as the basis of his witness statement. In paragraph 5 of his witness statement, he wrote categorically that he obtained the BVAS report on July 17 2022. The strength of it is that not having tendered his BVAS report, which founded the purported evaluation he adduced, there is no basis whatsoever for his report. If there is no BVAS report of July 17 in his witness statement, there is no case."

"The petitioner tendered Exhibit BVR, which was purportedly certified true copy, not on the 17 but on the July 27. This mean BVR was dumped on the Tribunal. The receipt of the purportedly tendered in support has a date of July 28. The document tendered did not correspond with the date on the receipt of the documents tendered. Section 104 of Evidence Act."

He urged the Tribunal to base its judgement on the BVAS machines, which according to him is the primary source of entries for accreditation in the election.

"The question now is, what is the certified true copy of that original. The certified of the original is Exhibit RWC tendered through RW1 and forming the basis for the report of RW2. BVR is flawed by the evidence of PW1 and PW2. Extraction from the INEC database is not the same as extraction from the BVAS machines.

"None of the agents of the petitioners in the contested 749 polling units contested the results in those units. They signed the results. Those results they signed as authentic with no over-voting can only mean Section 165 of the Electoral Act. The entries in form EC8A tally with figures in RWC. Section 47(2) of the Electoral Act, mandated that accreditation should produce with a technological device and a voters register."

Counsel of the PDP, Dr. Alex Iziyon, SAN, also submitted that the Tribunal dismiss the petition of the petitioners for lacking merit, asking the panel to uphold the election of the 2nd respondent.

"The language of the law is simple on the issue of qualification for the office of the governor which is the case at hand and that is a prove that a person attended UP TO school certificate level.

"Case of allegation of qualifications according to the constitution, section 134(3) must relate to the current election in dispute on which the petitioners failed in the written addresses.

"The issue of testimonial forgery has been previously raised and decided by the court of appeal. It is a judgement that can no longer be tampered with.

"Again, on the university and Diploma certificates as raised by the petitioners, the petitioners failed to 11 call any witness to lead evidence neither from the institution where the Diploma was issued nor the university. Such failure on the part of the petitioners was fatal and irreparable. Petitioners urging the court now to go back to the 2018 is lazy and fatally lackadaisical on the part of the petitioners.

"The report of BIVAS of July 27, 2022, while the date on the receipt for issuance of the report as required by law was dated 28 July, 2022. Such discrepancy is also too fatal to be pardoned.

"The documents dumped on the court are speaking different language in dates of certification and dates of issuance. The law does not permit such error of speaking in tongues before the law court.

"Such error has rendered those documents legally inadmissible and in a situation where a document is legally inadmissible in court ab nitio, then the court is forbidden to even look at it at all.


"If the petitioners had wanted to dump their petition before the court and ask the court to give them judgement, it would have been a different case. But having elected to call witnesses, submissions of such witnesses must convincingly relate or bolster the documents before the court. In this case, the Petitioners had called a star witness who instead of acting as a star witness, instead deemed whatever star that was in the petition and slaughtered the petition without mercy.


"The PW1 called by the petitioners was to put it mildly, a display of voyage of Christopher Columbus. On one hand, the PW1 claimed to be an expert while on the other, he claimed not to be an expert, a statistician the petitioners relied upon to buttress their figures as claimed in their petition, that to us, is a professional summersault, especially when considered under section 128 of evidence act."


On the BVAS report, Dr Alex Iziyon urged the court to rely on the examination, results and reports extracted from the primary source of evidence, which is the BVAS machines, used for the conduct of the election. He also reminded the court that the report of the BVAS have not been challenged by all parties.





Adeleke will lose based on forged certificates. The reckoning of APC is that Oyetola should win if all polling units with over voting are cancelled as provided in law, not just deduction of overvoting numbers in those polling units.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by seunayantokun(m): 5:22pm On Jan 21, 2023
Yeyenatu.
Them wan give people ulcer on top of poverty.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by seunayantokun(m): 5:32pm On Jan 21, 2023
drlateef:






Adeleke will lose based on forged certificates. The reckoning of APC is that Oyetola should win if all polling units with over voting are cancelled as provided in law, not just deduction of overvoting numbers in those polling units.
Appeal court has settled the issue of fake certificate, I suppose. The case of overvoting also was not well established with evidence. Even if apc were given the benefit of the doubt and dedications were made, they would still lose. No ground for apc's victory up to the supreme court. So, let's face next elections.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by drlateef: 7:28pm On Jan 21, 2023
seunayantokun:

Appeal court has settled the issue of fake certificate, I suppose. The case of overvoting also was not well established with evidence. Even if apc were given the benefit of the doubt and dedications were made, they would still lose. No ground for apc's victory up to the supreme court. So, let's face next elections.




The certificate issue is slightly different. Because he didn’t have his degree certificate at appeal court. Neither was the issue of primary certificate. And the INEC and PDP calculations on overvoting is wrong.
Re: Osun APC Declares 7-day Fasting And Prayer Ahead Of Election Tribunal Judgment by 9jahotblog: 3:37am On Jan 22, 2023
drlateef:






Adeleke will lose based on forged certificates. The reckoning of APC is that Oyetola should win if all polling units with over voting are cancelled as provided in law, not just deduction of overvoting numbers in those polling units.
kikiki, which forged certificate, Na you forged certificate for him niiii, Oyetola ti lule finally losun. Odi Aye Atunwa fun ijoba Oyetola ni ipinle Osun, Oyetola ti lo tefetefe losun. Oyetola tun ma lule piii Lekan siii ni ile ejo tribunal. The People’s Governor, Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke never forged any certificate here. The Waec have cleared it on the media platforms on several occasions that Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke pertake in the Waec examination. Besides, federal high court in Osogbo, appeal court of justice and Supreme Court of justice in Abuja have cleared the people’s Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke on that. Oyetola case will be dismissed for lacking merit in the tribunal court of, Appeal court of justice and Supreme Court of justice too. Tinubu ma lule piii Lekan siii.

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