The appeal court sitting in Abuja
has slated Thursday for judgement in the Osun state governorship election.
In a hearing notice issued on
Wednesday, the court said it will hear the appeal filed by Gboyega Oyetola,
governor of the state, against Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), by 9am.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Oyetola of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) winner of the September 2018 election.
In March, a three-man panel of
the election tribunal led by Ibrahim Sirajol, held that Oyetola was not validly
returned as the winner of the election and subsequently declared Adeleke
winner.
The tribunal ruled that the rerun
which finally produced Oyetola as winner was the outcome of the “illegal”
cancellation of results in some of the polling units during the main election.
It held that the returning
officer lacked the power to cancel the votes in affected polling units.
The panel asked INEC to issue a
fresh certificate of return to Adeleke and withdraw the one given to Oyetola.
But Oyetola rejected the
judgement and headed to the appellate court, saying “justice will prevail at
last”.
In April, the five-man panel of
the appeal court reserved judgement after the parties had adopted their final
briefs of argument.
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