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The Supreme Court will deliver judgement on four different appeals PDP Candidate, Senator Adeleke lodged to challenge the Court of Appeal verdict that affirmed Governor Oyetola’s victory.

A seven-man panel of justices of the court, led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, heard the appeals marked: SC/553/2019; SC/554/2019; SC/555/2019 and SC/556/2019. Adeleke, through his team of lawyers led by Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, is urging the apex court to set-aside the majority judgement the Court of Appeal delivered against him on May 9, and re-validate the tribunal verdict that declared him the winner of the gubernatorial contest that held in Osun state in September 2018.

However, Governor Oyetola, his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, prayed the apex court to dismiss the four appeals for want of merit. Oyetola, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, argued that the appellate court properly evaluated facts and evidence that were adduced by the parties, before it arrived at its majority decision that he was the valid winner of the governorship election.

Counsel to the APC, Chief Akin Olunjimi, SAN, and that of INEC, Yusuf Ali, SAN, equally prayed the apex court to uphold the decision of the Court of Appeal and dismiss Adeleke’s four appeals. Meantime, Adeleke, in one of his appeals, challenged refusal of the appellate court to void the September 27, 2018, supplementary election that led to Oyetola’s victory, after INEC declared the first election as inconclusive.

Ikpeazu said his client’s contention was that INEC lacked the powers to cancel elections in some polling units and order a re-run, without recourse to provisions of the Electoral Act. He argued that the supplementary election was unnecessary since his client had clearly won the election and met the constitutional requirement to be declared winner.
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I just hate that Oyetola man. I don't know why.

nairavsdollars:
I just hate that Oyetola man. I don't know why.

You better like him,he is still in charge for the next three and half years.