The governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement in Ogun State, Adekunle Akinlade; and his party have hired Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, as their lead counsel for their petition at the election tribunal.

Ikpeazu was the lead counsel for the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 2018 Osun governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke.


Ikpeazu led Adeleke’s legal team at the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal, which eventually declared Adeleke winner of the September 2018 election on March 22, 2019.

Ikpeazu, on behalf of Akinlade and the APM in the state on Tuesday, urged the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Ogun State to give an order mandating the Independent National Electoral Commission to grant them access to the documents used for conduct of March 9 election in the state.


The motion, which was filed by Ikpeazu, SAN, was supported by five-paragraphs affidavit and a written address.

Ikpeazu will be leading other three SANs — Mamman Osuman, Sebastine T. Hon and Ahmed Raji, alongside other 12 lawyers.

In the motion ex parte, Akinlade and the APM are the first and second petitioners, while INEC, the All Progressives Congress and its candidate, Dapo Abiodun, are first, second and third respondents respectively in the application.


The petitioners in the motion ex parte marked EPT/06/GOV/01/2019, said the inspection became imperative to allow them institute a petition before the Tribunal.

The INEC had declared Abiodun winner of the March 9 governorship election in Ogun State, having polled 241,670 votes to defeat his arch-rival and candidate of APM, Akinlade, who scored 222,153 votes.


While filing the application on 11 grounds, the petitioners submitted that without a formal order from the Tribunal, the respondents would not avail them the required documents for the purpose of instituting their petition.

The documents sought to be inspected, they said, “are indispensable for the purpose of instituting and maintaining the said petition.”


https://punchng.com/election-petition-ogun-apm-akinlade-hire-adelekes-lead-counsel/

Thinking the God of Adeleke will do it for Akinlade

Hoping

amaniro:
Thinking the God of Adeleke will do it for Akinlade

God abi lawyers? Nigeria be you like country wey God still get interest in?

Now i know what they mean...

Like Leo Messi is to football, Julius Berger is to construction, this man has become a specialist in election petition tribunal. Atiku should add him to his tribunal legal team ASAP if he's not part of it already.

Congrat Ogun, met your new Governor and party. Ikpeazu SAN has never lost an election petition before and it is not starting soon.

APC should pick Wole so that Ikpeazu will beat him again as usual.

Since INEC don't want to conduct a free and fair election, the court should start distracting them.

The only peaceful election is free and fair no matter the party you belong.

escodotman:
Like Leo Messi is to football, Julius Berger is to construction, this man has become a specialist in election petition tribunal. Atiku should add him to his tribunal legal team ASAP if he's not part of it already.

Boss e be like sey you never hear Buhari threaten am never to join Atiku legal team.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/presidential-elections-atiku-inaugurates-legal-team/

They also threatened him to withdraw from Olise Metuh case.

This man is fast becoming hot cake o. After doing it with Peter OBI, winning all his cases and now trying to do same with Adeleke, he has by so doing carved a niche for himself in electoral cases.
It is very possible Buhari and APC may have threatened him not to join Atiku's legal team because him alone is a big threat.

ChristianNorth:

Boss e be like sey you never hear Buhari threaten am never to join Atiku legal team.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/presidential-elections-atiku-inaugurates-legal-team/

They also threatened him to withdraw from Olise Metuh case.

That's unfortunate then. However, they can still have him contribute discretely, away from the public. I've always known Kanu Agabi to be Saraki's lawyer.

escodotman:
That's unfortunate then. However, they can still have him contribute discretely, away from the public. I've always known Kanu Agabi to be Saraki's lawyer.

Buhari never reach to prevent the duo.

PDP has never announced their legal team and I believe they are intentionally delaying it. Atiku only inaugurated his legal team, but Buhari and APC have inaugurated theirs.

Mystick:
This man is fast becoming hot cake o. After doing it with Peter OBI, winning all his cases and now trying to do same with Adeleke, he has by so doing carved a niche for himself in electoral cases.
It is very possible Buhari and APC may have threatened him not to join Atiku's legal team because him alone is a big threat.

He has never lost a case.

Mama Taraba vs Darius (INEC Led Counsel)
Dakuku vs Wike (INEC Led Counsel)
Otti vs Ikpeazu (joint PDP-INEC led counsel)
Udom vs Umana (PDP Lead Counsel)
Agbaje vs Ambode (INEC lead counsel)
David Umahi (INEC lead team)

Mystick:
This man is fast becoming hot cake o. After doing it with Peter OBI, winning all his cases and now trying to do same with Adeleke, he has by so doing carved a niche for himself in electoral cases.
It is very possible Buhari and APC may have threatened him not to join Atiku's legal team because him alone is a big threat.

He might not be among leading lawyers to atiku but he will provide logistics. I learnt he has been providing to some SANs in election matters.

ChristianNorth:
Congrat Ogun, met your new Governor and party. Ikpeazu SAN has never lost an election petition before and it is not starting soon.

APC should pick Wole so that Ikpeazu will beat him again as usual.

Take it easy... Who told you he must win the case.

All these hype is simply setting up the man to lose the case.


You people should be wise.


Stop making things difficult for him.

ChristianNorth:

He has never lost a case.

Mama Taraba vs Darius (INEC Led Counsel)
Dakuku vs Wike (INEC Led Counsel)
Otti vs Ikpeazu (joint PDP-INEC led counsel)
Udom vs Umana (PDP Lead Counsel)
Agbaje vs Ambode (INEC lead counsel)
David Umahi (INEC lead team)

Baaaaddd. He should not be allowed to near Atiku o. I no wan hear stories. Whoever has lost should go and relaxed. INEC should make him their permanent head of legal department.

duality:

Take it easy... Who told you he must win the case.
All these hype is simply setting up the man to lose the case.

You people should be wise.

Stop making things difficult for him.

For now, he is the undefeated, breaker of chains and mandate whisperer

capitalzero:


He might not be among leading lawyers to atiku but he will provide logistics. I learnt he has been providing to some SANs in election matters.

The first time I heard about the man was in 2015 after we won the Abia State Appeal Court judgment.

My friend told me not to celebrate that Ikpeazu SAN will be leading INEC team at the Supreme. That my friend is relative to the state governor and with us there is another friend whose father is a member of Ikpeazu SAN legal team.

I dismissed their confidence as mere optimism because the case we have appears undefeatable.

Lo and behold, at the supreme court, Ikpeazu-wole joint team destroyed APGA legal team. I was ashamed of Olujinmi SAN, he was disgraced personally.

At Osun tribunal, Wole and Olujimi squared up against Ikpeazu and he beat them 2-1.

Mystick:

Baaaaddd. He should not be allowed to near Atiku o. I no wan hear stories. Whoever has lost should go and relaxed. INEC should make him their permanent head of legal department.

Lol.
Atiku already has Lead Counsel, PDP has not announced their legal team yet, we are hoping he will take up that role with Kanu Agabi

ChristianNorth:

Lol.
Atiku already has Lead Counsel, PDP has not announced their legal team yet, we are hoping he will take up that role with Kanu Agabi

They have announced it just that it wasn't made public.also,tomorrow hearing commences

ChristianNorth:

Lol.
Atiku already has Lead Counsel, PDP has not announced their legal team yet, we are hoping he will take up that role with Kanu Agabi

Did you read what I said at all? He should not be allowed to have anything to do with that case at all. Working for PDP is the same as working for Atiku. Don't you get it?
This man make these cases look easy. Atiku should be made to work very hard to regain whatever was stolen from him.

ChristianNorth:

Boss e be like sey you never hear Buhari threaten am never to join Atiku legal team.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/presidential-elections-atiku-inaugurates-legal-team/

They also threatened him to withdraw from Olise Metuh case.

Why the threats? The government should just hire him or give him what he wants. Threat can make him take up the challenge. It won't be funny as he would work extra hard to prove a point to the government. Hire him and take him away from Atiku period.

Mystick:

Why the threats? The government should just hire him or give him what he wants. Threat can make him take up the challenge. It won't be funny as he would work extra hard to prove a point to the government. Hire him and take him away from Atiku period.

They can't hire him, he has rich history with PDP and APC will be scared of betrayal

Mystick:

Did you read what I said at all? He should not be allowed to have anything to do with that case at all. Working for PDP is the same as working for Atiku. Don't you get it?
This man make these cases look easy. Atiku should be made to work very hard to regain whatever was stolen from him.

Lol

No matter the evidence Uzuokwu has, he is not a match for a Wole + Yusuf Ali team. They will thrash him

senatordave1:

They have announced it just that it wasn't made public.also,tomorrow hearing commences

Who is leading PDP's legal team? Uzuokwu is leading Atiku's.

ChristianNorth:

Lol

No matter the evidence Uzuokwu has, he is not a match for a Wole + Yusuf Ali team. They will thrash him

Good for him. He deserves whatever is happening to him now.

ChristianNorth:

Who is leading PDP's legal team? Uzuokwu is leading Atiku's.

That you don't know doesn't mean they havent been inaugurated.when atiku legal team was newly set up,only uzoukwu was publicized.it was recently vthat others were unveiled.atiku and pdp are the petitioners,they filed the case using lawyers.commonsense demands that they already have their team in place before the respondents set up theirs.anyway,all this doesn't matter.my major anger is that when atiku loses finally,you will still argue and insult me over another lost political cause.you will never learn....

ChristianNorth:

Who is leading PDP's legal team? Uzuokwu is leading Atiku's.

That you don't know doesn't mean they havent been inaugurated.when atiku legal team was newly set up,only uzoukwu was publicized.it was recently vthat others were unveiled.atiku and pdp are the petitioners,they filed the case using lawyers.commonsense demands that they already have their team in place before the respondents set up theirs.anyway,all this doesn't matter.my major anger is that when atiku loses finally,you will still argue and insult me over another lost political cause.you will never learn

ChristianNorth:

Boss e be like sey you never hear Buhari threaten am never to join Atiku legal team.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/presidential-elections-atiku-inaugurates-legal-team/

They also threatened him to withdraw from Olise Metuh case.

Ipob fool. Why would the FG threaten a lawyer? Why do you guys peddle dumb lies.

schoolboij:


Ipob fool. Why would the FG threaten a lawyer? Why do you guys peddle dumb lies.

Afonja skull miners naturally defend anything evil.

senatordave1:

That you don't know doesn't mean they havent been inaugurated.when atiku legal team was newly set up,only uzoukwu was publicized.it was recently vthat others were unveiled.atiku and pdp are the petitioners,they filed the case using lawyers.commonsense demands that they already have their team in place before the respondents set up theirs.anyway,all this doesn't matter.my major anger is that when atiku loses finally,you will still argue and insult me over another lost political cause.you will never learn

There is nothing to hide in a legal team, you file them with the court registrar and it will be open for all to see. We knew members of Atiku's team from the date he inaugurated them.

PDP has not named their own team yet and what I know is that Uzuokwu is not leading a joint Atiku-PDP ticket

ChristianNorth:

There is nothing to hide in a legal team, you file them with the court registrar and it will be open for all to see. We knew members of Atiku's team from the date he inaugurated them.

PDP has not named their own team yet and what I know is that Uzuokwu is not leading a joint Atiku-PDP ticket

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