tuniski:

You have to truly evolve not just in politics but life in general to unerstand that once conclusive an end result has been attained. Whether favorable or not, you move on.
You are too emotionally attached to political perspective that is why you get annoyed for nothing.

Let's assume Oyetola wins Tomorrow shebi the reasons will be given. We all take that and move on. Or you expect one to be mulling Or Crying? Na wa for you.

The whole essence of judicial trial is to find justice amongst contending parties. If it were straightforward that A or B is the justice, there won't be need for Trial. Same for Elections.

Aonkuuse:
There are two possibilities here, either Adeleke wins tomorrow and it is justice or Oyetola wins and it is injustice and Buhari's islamazation according to PDP and IPOD

garfield1:

Once he loses,surrender to me and start supporting apc.do you promise?

garfield1:

You have scanty or limited knowledge yet you refuse to accept it and upgrade yourself.daily,you justify by your online inactions.immediately you saw the ballot boxes atiku presented in court,you were overwhelmed like ignorant fellows forgetting that atiku's lawyers must first use it to demonstrate irregularities.the judges will never fish for evidence for you,you must show it yourself.



Ask yourself,why didnt the supreme court declare supplementary polls illegal when it was faced with that issue in kogi,taraba and imo? Look through all supreme court rulings,you will see a common feature,judicial precedents and citations.in this case,you have none.
Anyway,the case will likely be dismissed before the substantive matter is heard.the absence of justice obiora is fatal.there are 7 precedents.Apart from that in a normal case,when a judge wont be available in a sitting,the court usually adjourns.that sums it all

Johnnyessence:
As if you supreme court judge. japaa jare. see this one here, no attention for you.

tuniski:

Why do you always sound like this? No any rerun,runoff or what have you is similar to Osun's.

Tomorrow's verdict will shape the constitutional provision of section 179 while validating or nullifying the 'margin of victory' introduction which is actually like a constitutional amendment.

The hope of #teamOyetola is hanging on the speculative absence of justice Obiora on February 26.

Again, because u are very linear in thought, you assumed it was the volume of boxes that shows substance of petition.

The Atiku petition is going straight at the manipulation and inconsistencies at substantial levels. Wards,LG then state. For the PUs the pink copies are available.

garfield1:

Swerve eith your trash

garfield1:

Will you pay a fine when my favorite win

Stillthebest:


And APC is a party of saints?? Better open you eyes. Both parties are useless. But I prefer Atiku to BUHARI

tuniski:

Will JSC Tanko dictate to the remaining JSC? Abegi calm down justice will be served tomorrow left or right.

KingOdart:


Atiku is one of the past Bastards that brought this country to its present state


If he had governed better during PDP days when he was a VP we might not have voted for Buhari

LegendVibes:
The Osun state Police Command, on Thursday, stated that security has been beefed up in the state to prevent any breakdown of law and order ahead of Friday’s Supreme Court’s judgement on the 2018 Osun governorship election, Igbere TV reports.


The command’s spokesperson, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen that the police was fully prepared for the outcome of the petition.


“Officers have been placed on red alert and are pro-active to prevent any kind of violence or demonstration in the state.


“We will, however, want to urge people of the state to maintain law and order and go about their lawful businesses without fear or intimidation,” she said.


It was reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, had challenged the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, at the Osun 2018 Governorship Election Tribunal.


The tribunal on March 22 declared Adeleke as winner of the election, but the judgement was later overturned by the Appeal Court on May 9.


The case however moved to the Supreme Court for final judgement and the court is set to rule on the matter on July 5.

Source; http://igberetvnews.com/817233/osun-guber-police-speak-as-supreme-court-decides-adeleke-oyetolas-fate-on-friday/

ejimatic:
..... the entire proceedings and the judgement of the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal a nullity. I hereby set aside the entire proceedings including the judgement," she ruled.
Justice Sankey also faulted the tribunal's decision to declare the supplementary election as illegal as well as cancelling results of 17 polling units even though Adeleke did not prove over-voting took place.
She said, "The absence of proper ballot accounting in the Forms EC8A in the 17 polling units is not a substantial non-compliance and did not substantially affect the results of the election.
"The only appropriate order is for a rerun election as provided under section 140(2) of the Electoral Act but not to recompute the results of the election and proceed to declare the 1st respondent or any other person the winner of the election.
"The tribunal was in patent error when it set aside the rerun election especially when it found that the conduct of the rerun was not marred by malpractices and non-compliance with the Electoral Act, leading to the unwarranted disenfranchisement of the voters in the seven polling units."
Justices Abubakar Yahaya , Isaiah Akeju , and
Bitrus Sanga , agreed with Justice Sankey's. ....... The above except from the appeal court judgement sets a stage for the judgement at the supreme court on Friday. Arising questions are :Will the supreme court overrule itself? will the supreme court contradict itself? Will supreme court expunge section 140 and 250 of the constitution? Will supreme court set aside previous judgements on rerun elections and absence of the justice even in a day during hearing?Will the Supreme court not confirm Oyetola on Friday? Will the supreme court order rerun election in 17 polling units and 7polling units where rerun took place? Will the supreme court say constitution and electoral laws are not related again?Will the Supreme court overrule all its precedents relating to Osun election? The final decision is in the hand of CJN Tanko Mohammed and his team.As for me my personal opinion without reservation to anybody or any aggrieved individual or group is: The Supreme court will confirm Oyetola as governor or order a rerun in 17 contested poling units and 7 polling units where rerun took place.

greggng:



That is not the issue here. The issue is what the electoral law said with respect to the 3000k votes that led to the suplimentsry election. Before the suplimentsry election he was leading by 235 votes...are you now saying that they should throw away the 3000k votes and make adeleke winner? Our electoral law is wiser than your sentiment

ejimatic:
. Section 140 and 250 will speak volume tomorrow if they are not removed from the constitution this night... In my opinion APC will be more favoured than the PDP tomorrow

LegendVibes:
The Osun state Police Command, on Thursday, stated that security has been beefed up in the state to prevent any breakdown of law and order ahead of Friday’s Supreme Court’s judgement on the 2018 Osun governorship election, Igbere TV reports.


The command’s spokesperson, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen that the police was fully prepared for the outcome of the petition.


“Officers have been placed on red alert and are pro-active to prevent any kind of violence or demonstration in the state.


“We will, however, want to urge people of the state to maintain law and order and go about their lawful businesses without fear or intimidation,” she said.


It was reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, had challenged the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, at the Osun 2018 Governorship Election Tribunal.


The tribunal on March 22 declared Adeleke as winner of the election, but the judgement was later overturned by the Appeal Court on May 9.


The case however moved to the Supreme Court for final judgement and the court is set to rule on the matter on July 5.


Osun guber: Supreme Court decides Oyetola, Adeleke’s fate Friday

tribuneonlineng.com

Jul 4, 2019 1:26 PM



The Supreme Court will today deliver judgment in the appeals brought before it by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2018 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, challenging the judgement of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which affirmed the election of Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of the state.

Adeleke’s four appeals, marked: SC/553/2019; SC/554/2019; SC/555/2019 and SC/556/2019 are challenging the May 9, 2019 judgments of the Appeal Court, which held that Oyetola was validly elected as governor of Osun State.

The appellate court had also set aside the majority judgment of the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal which had allowed Adeleke’s petition and declared him the winner of the election.

A seven-man panel of the appellate court, led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad heard the appeals last month and slated today, July 5, 2015, for judgment.

Adeleke had, in his appeals prayed the apex court to set aside the ruling of the appeal court and uphold the decision of the Tribunal, which declared him as the validly elected governor of Osun State.

Osun State Election Governorship Election Petition Tribunal had ruled that Senator Adeleke was the rightful winner of the 2018 governorship election, having satisfied the constitutional requirements of majority votes and spread across the local government areas of the state.

The tribunal also nullified the rerun election of September 27, 2018.

The Appeal Court had reversed the ruling, nullifying the decisions of the tribunal and reinstating Oyetola as the winner of the said election.

At the last sitting on the matter, the court took submissions from Adeleke’s counsel, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) and Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) for the 1st respondent (Oyetola) in respect of appeal marked: SC/553/2019.

The court said its judgment in the main appeal – SC/553/2019 – will be applied to two other similar one, filed by Adeleke against the Court of Appeal’s decision in relation to the appeals filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC, marked: SC/554/2019 and SC/555/2019.

The court also took arguments from Ikpeazu (for the appellant), Yusuf Ali (SAN) for INEC; Bode Olanipekun (SAN) for Oyetola and Olumide Olujinmi, for APC in relation to the fourth appeal, marked: SC/556/2019.

In their arguments, counsel to the respondents – INEC, Oyetola and the APC faulted Adeleke’s appeals and prayed the court to dismiss them for lacking in merit and uphold the judgments as given on May 9, 2019 by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which affirmed Oyetola of the APC as the winner of the governorship election held in September 2018.

In relation to the first set of appeals – SC/553/2019; SC554/2019 and SC/555/2019, Ikpeazu urged the court to set aside the judgments of the Court of Appeal and restore the majority judgment given in his client’s favour by the election tribunal.

In a counter-argument, Wole Olanipekun, Ali and Olunijmi faulted the competence of the appeals and urged the court to dismiss them for lacking in merit and to uphold the May 9 judgments given in favour of the respondents by the Court of Appeal.

In arguing the fourth appeal: SC/556/2019, Ikpeazu urged the court to set aside the two concurrent judgments of the election tribunal and the Court of Appeal, in which both courts rejected Adeleke’s request to void the supplementary election held after INEC declared the Osun governorship election inconclusive.

Ikpeazu said his client’s contention was that INEC lacked the powers to have canceled elections in some pooling units and order a rerun, arguing that the supplementary election was unnecessary because Adeleke had won the election and met the constitutional requirement to be declared a winner.

Ikpeazu prayed the court to set aside the Paragraph 44 of the INEC’s Guideline, on which basis the supplementary election was held, on the grounds that it conflicted with the constitution.

Olanipekun’s son, Bode Olanipekun (SAN) argued the fourth appeal for Oyetola and urged the court to disregard Ikpeazu’s contention that the supplementary election was unnecessary and said that Paragraph 44 of INEC Guidelines was not in conflict with the constitution.

Olanipekun, who noted that Section 178(4) of the Constitution provides that the entire state is the constituency for a governorship election and added that “where elections have not held in the entire state, the appellant cannot contend that he won the election, as against the 2nd respondent (Oyetola), who won the election as conducted across the whole of the state.”

Counsels to INEC and the APC argued in a similar vein, with Ali (for INEC) arguing that Ikpeazu’s submission on reliefs 8and 9 of his client (Adeleke’s) petition, overlooked the fact that election tribunal is special tribunal with limited jurisdiction to determine whether somebody was properly returned in an election.

“The quarrel of the appellant is against a concurrent finding of two lowers courts. There are no compelling reasons to make this court interfere with the concurrent findings of the two lower courts,” Ali said.

Olujinmi urged the court to be guided by its earlier decision in the case of Faleke v. INEC 2016 8 NWLR, part 1543 pg 61, in which this court affirmed the limited scope of the jurisdiction of the election tribunal.

He noted that even though Adeleke and his party, the PDP are aware of this court’s decision in that case (Faleke case), but have failed to approach the court for departure on its position on that issue

LegendVibes:
The Osun state Police Command, on Thursday, stated that security has been beefed up in the state to prevent any breakdown of law and order ahead of Friday’s Supreme Court’s judgement on the 2018 Osun governorship election, Igbere TV reports.


The command’s spokesperson, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen that the police was fully prepared for the outcome of the petition.


“Officers have been placed on red alert and are pro-active to prevent any kind of violence or demonstration in the state.


“We will, however, want to urge people of the state to maintain law and order and go about their lawful businesses without fear or intimidation,” she said.


It was reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, had challenged the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, at the Osun 2018 Governorship Election Tribunal.


The tribunal on March 22 declared Adeleke as winner of the election, but the judgement was later overturned by the Appeal Court on May 9.


The case however moved to the Supreme Court for final judgement and the court is set to rule on the matter on July 5.


Osun guber: Supreme Court decides Oyetola, Adeleke’s fate Friday

tribuneonlineng.com

Jul 4, 2019 1:26 PM



The Supreme Court will today deliver judgment in the appeals brought before it by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2018 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, challenging the judgement of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which affirmed the election of Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of the state.

Adeleke’s four appeals, marked: SC/553/2019; SC/554/2019; SC/555/2019 and SC/556/2019 are challenging the May 9, 2019 judgments of the Appeal Court, which held that Oyetola was validly elected as governor of Osun State.

The appellate court had also set aside the majority judgment of the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal which had allowed Adeleke’s petition and declared him the winner of the election.

A seven-man panel of the appellate court, led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad heard the appeals last month and slated today, July 5, 2015, for judgment.

Adeleke had, in his appeals prayed the apex court to set aside the ruling of the appeal court and uphold the decision of the Tribunal, which declared him as the validly elected governor of Osun State.

Osun State Election Governorship Election Petition Tribunal had ruled that Senator Adeleke was the rightful winner of the 2018 governorship election, having satisfied the constitutional requirements of majority votes and spread across the local government areas of the state.

The tribunal also nullified the rerun election of September 27, 2018.

The Appeal Court had reversed the ruling, nullifying the decisions of the tribunal and reinstating Oyetola as the winner of the said election.

At the last sitting on the matter, the court took submissions from Adeleke’s counsel, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) and Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) for the 1st respondent (Oyetola) in respect of appeal marked: SC/553/2019.

The court said its judgment in the main appeal – SC/553/2019 – will be applied to two other similar one, filed by Adeleke against the Court of Appeal’s decision in relation to the appeals filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC, marked: SC/554/2019 and SC/555/2019.

The court also took arguments from Ikpeazu (for the appellant), Yusuf Ali (SAN) for INEC; Bode Olanipekun (SAN) for Oyetola and Olumide Olujinmi, for APC in relation to the fourth appeal, marked: SC/556/2019.

In their arguments, counsel to the respondents – INEC, Oyetola and the APC faulted Adeleke’s appeals and prayed the court to dismiss them for lacking in merit and uphold the judgments as given on May 9, 2019 by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which affirmed Oyetola of the APC as the winner of the governorship election held in September 2018.

In relation to the first set of appeals – SC/553/2019; SC554/2019 and SC/555/2019, Ikpeazu urged the court to set aside the judgments of the Court of Appeal and restore the majority judgment given in his client’s favour by the election tribunal.

In a counter-argument, Wole Olanipekun, Ali and Olunijmi faulted the competence of the appeals and urged the court to dismiss them for lacking in merit and to uphold the May 9 judgments given in favour of the respondents by the Court of Appeal.

In arguing the fourth appeal: SC/556/2019, Ikpeazu urged the court to set aside the two concurrent judgments of the election tribunal and the Court of Appeal, in which both courts rejected Adeleke’s request to void the supplementary election held after INEC declared the Osun governorship election inconclusive.

Ikpeazu said his client’s contention was that INEC lacked the powers to have canceled elections in some pooling units and order a rerun, arguing that the supplementary election was unnecessary because Adeleke had won the election and met the constitutional requirement to be declared a winner.

Ikpeazu prayed the court to set aside the Paragraph 44 of the INEC’s Guideline, on which basis the supplementary election was held, on the grounds that it conflicted with the constitution.

Olanipekun’s son, Bode Olanipekun (SAN) argued the fourth appeal for Oyetola and urged the court to disregard Ikpeazu’s contention that the supplementary election was unnecessary and said that Paragraph 44 of INEC Guidelines was not in conflict with the constitution.

Olanipekun, who noted that Section 178(4) of the Constitution provides that the entire state is the constituency for a governorship election and added that “where elections have not held in the entire state, the appellant cannot contend that he won the election, as against the 2nd respondent (Oyetola), who won the election as conducted across the whole of the state.”

Counsels to INEC and the APC argued in a similar vein, with Ali (for INEC) arguing that Ikpeazu’s submission on reliefs 8and 9 of his client (Adeleke’s) petition, overlooked the fact that election tribunal is special tribunal with limited jurisdiction to determine whether somebody was properly returned in an election.

“The quarrel of the appellant is against a concurrent finding of two lowers courts. There are no compelling reasons to make this court interfere with the concurrent findings of the two lower courts,” Ali said.

Olujinmi urged the court to be guided by its earlier decision in the case of Faleke v. INEC 2016 8 NWLR, part 1543 pg 61, in which this court affirmed the limited scope of the jurisdiction of the election tribunal.

He noted that even though Adeleke and his party, the PDP are aware of this court’s decision in that case (Faleke case), but have failed to approach the court for departure on its position on that issue

tuniski:


The constitution is superior to electoral act and it clearly says in section 179 that once results are declared and a candidate has simple majority and 25% in 2/3 LGs then he be declared winner.

Adeleke/pdp met that constitutional provision on Sept 22nd and should have been duly return elected. The Sept 27 supplementary is illegal. That is one of the grounds the supreme court will rule on tomorrow.

greggng:



You are just misleading people here. Nobody says adeleke didn't meet the constitutional requirement to be declared governor ...the point is that he cannot be declared governor when an election is yet to be concluded. As a result a suplimentary election was scheduled.. he cannot be declared a winner in piecemeal....let's see how it places out tomorrow...cos we 've heard some elections ending inconclusive ...reasons for that is clearly explained by the electoral laws....let's see whether your constitution will now set aside the electoral law that is the foundation for the election....it will amount to midchieve for such to happen simply to make pdp candidate winner. ...you cannot change the goal post in the middle of the game

garfield1:

My brother,the supreme court settled that matter in faleke vs inec 2016.the supreme court said that satisfying the constitutional requirements as slept out in section 179 is not automatic that you are the winner except inec declares you and makes a return.elections cannot be concluded except inec says so and makes a return.section 178 says the whole state is the constituency of the govetnorship polls therefore elections must take place everywhere.please tuniski read the 2016 judgment and stop deceiving yourself or i can send it to you while you pay me.try and be updated.

Again,the supreme court are always guided by their past rulings,there are very conservative like a secret society,very rigid.they dont overrule themselves on a previous ruin except an application for departure of judgment is lodged and pdp failed to do so concerning the osun matter.on the otherhand,the apc reminded the supreme court of its ruling of 2016 and asked it to abide by it.anyway,all these wont be discussed.the matter will be dismissed based on technicalities.

ejimatic:
..... the entire proceedings and the judgement of the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal a nullity. I hereby set aside the entire proceedings including the judgement," she ruled.
Justice Sankey also faulted the tribunal's decision to declare the supplementary election as illegal as well as cancelling results of 17 polling units even though Adeleke did not prove over-voting took place.
She said, "The absence of proper ballot accounting in the Forms EC8A in the 17 polling units is not a substantial non-compliance and did not substantially affect the results of the election.
"The only appropriate order is for a rerun election as provided under section 140(2) of the Electoral Act but not to recompute the results of the election and proceed to declare the 1st respondent or any other person the winner of the election.
"The tribunal was in patent error when it set aside the rerun election especially when it found that the conduct of the rerun was not marred by malpractices and non-compliance with the Electoral Act, leading to the unwarranted disenfranchisement of the voters in the seven polling units."
Justices Abubakar Yahaya , Isaiah Akeju , and
Bitrus Sanga , agreed with Justice Sankey's. ....... The above except from the appeal court judgement sets a stage for the judgement at the supreme court on Friday. Arising questions are :Will the supreme court overrule itself? will the supreme court contradict itself? Will supreme court expunge section 140 and 250 of the constitution? Will supreme court set aside previous judgements on rerun elections and absence of the justice even in a day during hearing?Will the Supreme court not confirm Oyetola on Friday? Will the supreme court order rerun election in 17 polling units and 7polling units where rerun took place? Will the supreme court say constitution and electoral laws are not related again?Will the Supreme court overrule all its precedents relating to Osun election? The final decision is in the hand of CJN Tanko Mohammed and his team.As for me my personal opinion without reservation to anybody or any aggrieved individual or group is: The Supreme court will confirm Oyetola as governor or order a rerun in 17 contested poling units and 7 polling units where rerun took place.

greggng:



You are just misleading people here. Nobody says adeleke didn't meet the constitutional requirement to be declared governor ...the point is that he cannot be declared governor when an election is yet to be concluded. As a result a suplimentary election was scheduled.. he cannot be declared a winner in piecemeal....let's see how it places out tomorrow...cos we 've heard some elections ending inconclusive ...reasons for that is clearly explained by the electoral laws....let's see whether your constitution will now set aside the electoral law that is the foundation for the election....it will amount to midchieve for such to happen simply to make pdp candidate winner. ...you cannot change the goal post in the middle of the game

greggng:



I like to have conversation with intelligent people like you with facts...not those whose sense of reasoning has been overtaken by sentiments...with everything in this your write up, it will amount to Judicial murder of democracy if ayetola is not declared winner tomorrow....even money cannot buy this judgement

greggng:



Thank you for educating us....

kayusely70:
APC set to win

greggng:



I like to have conversation with intelligent people like you with facts...not those whose sense of reasoning has been overtaken by sentiments...with everything in this your write up, it will amount to Judicial murder of democracy if ayetola is not declared winner tomorrow....even money cannot buy this judgement

greggng:
If adeleke wins tomorrow then there is no justice in this country. At the tribunal his victory was upheld on shaky ground. How can they say that the suplimentsry election is Ilegal. Same suplimentary was what brought in some candidate and is in our electoral laws. That was why appeal court struck out that petition...I want to see how a whole supreme court will now tell us that what is in the electoral act which is the manual guiding our election is ilegal. ...let's see how it goes but I am certain apc will carry the day except if supreme court will amend our electoral act to ensure desperate adeleke wins

garfield1:

My brother,the supreme court settled that matter in faleke vs inec 2016.the supreme court said that satisfying the constitutional requirements as slept out in section 179 is not automatic that you are the winner except inec declares you and makes a return.elections cannot be concluded except inec says so and makes a return.section 178 says the whole state is the constituency of the govetnorship polls therefore elections must take place everywhere.please tuniski read the 2016 judgment and stop deceiving yourself or i can send it to you while you pay me.try and be updated.

Again,the supreme court are always guided by their past rulings,there are very conservative like a secret society,very rigid.they dont overrule themselves on a previous ruin except an application for departure of judgment is lodged and pdp failed to do so concerning the osun matter.on the otherhand,the apc reminded the supreme court of its ruling of 2016 and asked it to abide by it.anyway,all these wont be discussed.the matter will be dismissed based on technicalities.

Johnnyessence:
in your village Abi. as if you are part of the panel members in the supreme court. Abegi jare. all the 7 supreme court lordship will decide on the case. Infacts their judgement will be formed as laws where other lawyers will be referencing on. today is the judgement day.