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27/01/2023

Osun Judgement: Governor Adeleke Addresses Osun People, Says Claim of Over-Voting Unfounded

••••Writes INEC over Appeal against Judgement

The Executive Governor of Osun State, Governor Ademola Adeleke has addressed the people of Osun state, restating his rejection of the Tribunal judgement and affirming his appeal to higher court.

In an address to the people of the state, Governor Adeleke observed the discrepancies in the judgement of the Tribunal Chairman, describing the outcome as "miscarriage of justice.

"My good people of Osun state, we have all heard the split judgement of the governorship election tribunal. Two members of the Tribunal delivered two opposing judgements, the Chairman and the member one. The member 2, did not deliver any judgment, she abstained.

"The Chairman's judgment affirmed the claim of over-voting, while the Member One's judgment agreed with our position as captured by the BVAS machines which is the primary source of accreditation data of true accreditation on the day of the Election.
"The reality of my election as the Governor of Osun State is captured in the member one's judgement. The claim of over-voting in the Chairman's judgment was unfounded.This was clearly a miscarriage of Justice. Based on the above, there was no majority judgment.

"My good people of Osun state, I am still your Governor. I have the right of appeal on the Chairman's judgement and I have instructed my Lawyers accordingly.

"You gave me your Mandate, our election remains valid and by the Grace of God we will triumph at last. I call on you all to remain calm and go about your normal activities, peacefully. Please Remain Law abiding.
"We have strong faith in God and in our judiciary", the State Governor concluded in his second state address.

Meanwhile, the counsels to the state governor have filed appeal against the Tribunal judgement.

The counsels have also written the electoral commission intimating it of the appeal and seeking non-implementation of the judgement until the determination of the Appeal.

Signed:
Mallam Olawale Rasheed,
Spokesperson to the Executive Governor

Osun Judgement : Governor Adeleke Addresses Osun People, Says Claim of Over-Voting Unfounded

••••Writes INEC over Appeal against Judgement

Really the black market judgement in yesterday tribunal court will never stand in appeal and Supreme Court of justice. The last option is to declare rerun in all the polling units where the alleged over voting took place. As it stands today Senator Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke remain the governor of Osun State

The "New Electoral Law" stipulated that, anywhere that is Over Voting; be it Ward (s) or Polling Unit, such Election area will be cancelled totally and call for re-run Election.
Now, it is unlawful for the Tribunal to cancel 749 Polling Units where PDP won and then declared a winner. It’s impossible and won’t stand.
Adeleke will surely win on appeal and the Supreme Court too.
We need to bring sense back to the Legal system.
Hence, Re-run is the worst case here if you cancelled 749 Polling Units.

Unfounded in your bedroom abi


Baba you don loose...no way back inec, pdp and apc all agreed there was overvoting. The law is clear it's cancellation not rerun......you nor rig with sense na why

APC desperately needed a lifeline and they got it from a venal chairman.

However, there's an appeal and Adeleke remains the Governor.

Oletola should come back to the BQ that Tinubu gave him at bourdillon.
No space at the Osun government house now

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Alright

Normal thing now, Oyetola also knew this, and he has said this yesterday that if Gov Adeleke is not satisfied, he should appeal the judgment. I just hope that by the time Oyetola wins again, you people will not turn yourself to judges who knows the interpretations of the law than the judges.

Brendaniel:

The answer I can give are:

1. This is where INEC needs to work much more, the question is why would INEC allow a voter who was not accredited to vote? INEC just need to up in place a disciplinary action for any polling unit officer that allows overvoting, also, INEC should henceforth verify votes cast from polling units with accredited voters before announcing the results, if the numbers do not tally, they should just cancel that polling unit and then deal with the INEC officials there because that wouldn't have happened without there knowing.

2. What then is the use for BVAS in over voting if after the BVAS is able to identify the number of over votes only to end up cancelling all votes(valid) and over votes(invalid) ? That is like throwing away a baby with the bath water.

3. If there is an election tribunal like this and a rerun takes place, what if the same over voting keeps occurring over and over, would they keep repeating the election tribunal process and back to rerun again?

2. In this case, I think the BVAS has only proven to us that it can do what it was meant to do. I mean, can you imagine a situation where there's no BVAS, Adeleke would have scraped through just like that since the number of accredited votes would have still be increased even after accreditation has ended. But in this case, since, BVAS was able to upload the accreditation numbers even before voting, they were unable to tamper with it. It's just that everyone now hates APC to the extent that we don't mind if PDP should win them through the back door.


Solution:

This solution won't be valid because there's no way INEC can know the votes of those who were accredited different from those who overvoted, imagine if INEC decides to remove certain number of overvotes, how will they know it's the vote that belongs to APC or PDP that should be removed, if they decide to remove the votes of both party equally, then they are being unfair to the one who didn't perpetrate overvoting, thus, the best thing is to cancel the polling unit.

However, I think the solution to this would be to ask for a rerun election instead of just canceling but then I don't think the law allows that, because if it does, INEC would have also appealed the judgment.

1 month governor

Can Supreme court save Ade Dancer ?

Imólé no dey anywhere.
Livescores;
Doctor Oyetola vs Ade Dancer: 2-1

If he was not dancing when addressing people no one should take him serious

Chai..


News from Osun is what will be flooding our front pages now!

Febuwari should come and go!

After finding out the method used for the judgement on the election tribunal that gave victory to Oyetola over Adeleke, I would say it is a recipe for disaster, the method applied was cancelling all the votes of a polling unit because of over voting in that particular polling unit.


The questions I ask are:

1. As it happened that there were over voting in various polling units in the Osun election, what if each opposition connives to perpetrate over voting in polling units in each opposition strong holds?

2. What then is the use for BVAS in over voting if after the BVAS is able to identify the number of over votes only to end up cancelling all votes(valid) and over votes(invalid) ? That is like throwing away a baby with the bath water.

3. If there is an election tribunal like this and a rerun takes place, what if the same over voting keeps occurring over and over, would they keep repeating the election tribunal process and back to rerun again?

In my opinion, the law is just an error or a purposeful scheme to rig an election using what I call reverse voting
Just simply tamper with your opposition strong holds and invalidate their votes, So we might be having a case where a carefully selected and protected minority will determine winners of an election instead of the majority carrying the votes.


Implications:

1. It will make elections become very dirty because politicians will be all about scheming to invalidate votes in opposition strong holds.

2. It will make the voters lose confidence in the electoral process, because a voter will not be sure if his vote will be invalidated or not by someone else scheming with a politician in his/her polling unit.

3. It will make voters wear out easily and may cause voter apathy when you have reruns after stressful elections, thereby reducing voters turn-up in reruns.

4. It may not reflect the true will of the people and also reduce the total number of voter participation, just like the Osun election tribunal, the total number of votes cast for both PDP and APC after the cancellation doesn't reflect the true will of the people to declare Oyetola the winner.

5. Elections will cost more because of Tribunal, reruns and time wasting.

6. It could lead to anarchy and total chaos, like in some volatile states in the north where they riot over political results, just imagine after election and INEC says they have cancelled over 20,000 polling units across the north which were all stronghold of a particular candidate, because of over voting of less than 2000 voters, imagine what will happen in the aftermath of such news.

Solution:

In situations of over voting, Why not just deduct the invalid votes(over votes) and count the rest, the BVAS already identifies the number of over votes(invalid votes), doing so, INEC will avoid a lot of election tribunals, scheming by politicians, reduce cost of doing reruns, make more accurate results, increase voters confidence, reduce time wasting, reflect the true will of the people and avoid anarchy.

I don't understand....na PDP lost for tribunal but na Obidients dey cry...am I missing something?

9jahotblog:
The "New Electoral Law" stipulated that, anywhere that is Over Voting; be it Ward (s) or Polling Unit, such Election area will be cancelled totally and call for re-run Election.
Now, it is unlawful for the Tribunal to cancel 749 Polling Units where PDP won and then declared a winner. It’s impossible and won’t stand.
Adeleke will surely win on appeal and the Supreme Court too.
We need to bring sense back to the Legal system.
Hence, Re-run is the worst case here if you cancelled 749 Polling Units.

Why did you guys rig? There will be no rerun

You have to learn in a hard way

IgOga:
Unfounded in your bedroom abi


Baba you don loose...no way back inec, pdp and apc all agreed there was overvoting. The law is clear it's cancellation not rerun......you nor rig with sense na why

PDP is the only beneficiary of the overcoming. No over voting in wards, local governments where APC won

Noted.

The kangaroo court judgement will be overruled soon.

So terrible party with evil mongers . They have come up with new tactics of overnight over voting tactics to overturn elections if it doesn't favour them.

How can their be over voting? Those who were accredited were the one who voted during the election. So where did they see the over voting figures from?

Crazy country!

The kangaroo judgement will be vacated soonest

iWasNotHere:
Can Supreme court save Ade Dancer ?

The case will end at the Appeal Court

As expected from a wise man

lansile:
If he was not dancing when addressing people no one should take him serious

iWasNotHere:
Can Supreme court save Ade Dancer ?

Lol.
There is a time to dance and a time to wail. This is his time to wail. So let him wail responsibly

Op you no put your signature olu le pi ?