Adeleke’s Reinstatement: Oyetola Should Bow To Interest Of Osun People Now – Barr Pelumi Olajengbesi
…Asks Former Governor To Stop Distracting Adeleke With Litigations
Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi has hailed the Appeal Court’s reinstatement of Senator Ademola Adeleke as the duly elected Governor of Osun State.
The lead counsel of Abuja-based law firm, Law Corridor, commended the three-man panel led by Justice Mohammed Shuaibu of the Court of Appeal in Abuja for standing for justice and fairness and for upholding the wishes and desire of the people of Osun State who voted massively for Senator Adeleke in the July 16, 2022.
Olajengbesi asked the former governor of Osun State and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the July 16, 2022 governorship election, Gboyega Oyetola to quit his failed attempts to overturn the mandate of the people through the courts.
The lawyer said Oyetola should stop distracting Senator Adeleke with spurious and indefensible court cases and allow him to concentrate on delivering good governance to the people of Osun State.
“Former Governor Gboyega Oyetola should stop his fruitless and laboriously wasteful efforts of trying to upturn the democratic will of the people of Osun State through illegal tribunals. Mr Oyetola should bow to the interest of the people of Osun State with the verdict of the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday,” Olajengbesi stated.
“The idea that the courts should dictate the winner of an electoral process is anti-democratic. The people decided their governor in Senator Adeleke when they on July 16, 2022 voted massively for Senator Adeleke who won overwhelmingly in 17 of the 30 local government areas in the state.
“The Appeal Court justices have done well to throw out the cash-and-carry January 27, 2023 judgement secured by Oyetola at the Osun State Governorship Tribunal.
“In fact, the Court of Appeal also issued a fine of N500,000 in favour of Adeleke to show Oyetola the gravity of the miscarriage of justice the Tribunal did on January 27, 2023.
“Oyetola should stop distracting Senator Adeleke with spineless litigations that is characteristic of losers and allow the people’s governor to concentrate on delivering dividends of governance to the good people of Osun State which he (Oyetola) failed at delivering for four years.”
Barr Pelumi Olajengbesi
Lead Partner,
Law Corridor, Abuja.

STEP BY STEP HOW ADELEKE WON



1. Resolved that the Tribunal was not right to have rejected the judgment of the Court of Appeal that cleared Adeleke of forgery.



In short issue of forgery has been settled by the Court of Appeal. The Tribunal was wrong to have held forgery against Adeleke.



2. Issues 5 & 7: Preference of server report for BVAS machines and the report of inspection. Also the issue of transmission of results by way of manual collation.



Resolved that BVAS machine is the primary source



3. Voters register is intrinsically part of accreditation. Section 137 of the Electoral Act, only lightens the burden of the petitioner not to totally remove the burden.



To prove overvoting, voters register must be tendered.



4. Oyetola's witness not an expert which he held himself out to be. PW 1 claimed to be an expert, he did not give evidence of his qualifications, he did not deny his membership of the APC.



His evidence was barren.



5. Further resolving the issue of over-voting, the Tribunal only relied on the Table provided by Oyetola and APC to give judgment in their favour.



The Tribunal was wrong because there was no evidence to support such claim of over-voting.



6. Voters register is intrinsically part of accreditation. Section 137 of the Electoral Act, only lightens the burden of the petitioner not to totally remove the burden.



To prove overvoting, voters register must be tendered.



7. FINAL VERDICT



The Appeal Court has set aside the Tribunal judgment of 27th January and affirmed the judgment of Gov. Ademola Adeleke.


Congratulations to Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke

Lawyers will not let him listen because they too want to cash out from him , lawyer too are criminals in the name of na out work we are doing.God bless all the Lawyers

I am not a Lawyer but I have a sound mind in my own little right. The public needed to know that the Appeal Court yesterday agreed with Oyetola that the non rendering of judgement of the member 3 on the tribunal panel will still have been order since she appended her signature on Justice Buga Teresa Kume's judgement. The same Appeal Court agreed that notwithstanding the haphazard nature of the receipt obtained by Oyetola which has no date conformity with the CTC of his server report, the post dated receipt still did not take away the existence of APC tendered server report. The Appeal Court indeed also spoke on the bias allegation against the man that gave Oyetola majority judgement at the Tribunal. It is therefore going to be extremely difficult and I believe impossible too for Oyetola or APC to impeach the other legs in the judgement that dealt with the substance of the Appeal. A day old child understands that the lower tribunal could not have rightfully impeach the judgement of the Appeal Court since 2019 which cleared and exonerated Governor Ademola Adeleke of any question of forgery or non disqualification in the manner that the Kume headed tribunal did. Again it is fundamental in law that overvoting is not in the vacuum without recourse to the voters register and the ec8a form series. The unanimous judgement of the Appeal Court under my Lord Justice Shaibu was such a sound judgement which no credible Lawyer have been able to come out since yesterday to fault base on point of law or judicial appropriateness other than the sheer beer parlour attempt of condemnation by political urchins which opinion is very fade and unpopular. Everybody saw content in that Appeal Court judgement and it was embedded with wisdom. History is appearing to be ripe to repeat itself just as it was the case in 2018 when the supreme court affirmed the judgement of the Appeal Court on the Osun State governorship tussle. My counsel to Former Governor Oyetola is that he should endeavour to consider the necessity to allow the olive branch extended by his Successor in office to be if only he has any love for Osun State. As he has been penalized to pay some fines to the prior Appellant over his bad case before the Appeal Court, now that he is a likely Appellant again in case he goes to the Supreme Court, there is a likelihood that the Apex Court will not entertain shenanigans because the Supreme Court is a court that is facts based, it will most probably not jettison the primary source of information which are the BIVAS machines and the unchallenged BIVAS independent report as ordered by the Tribunal which was later discountenance by the same tribunal which ordered it, to rely on an unsubstantiated back end server information which is suspectible to human errors and hacking, in this case which the INEC has described as an incomplete report.

The fragmented Osun APC instead of washing its dirty linens outside further and wasting precious time and scarce of its resources on the futile journey to the supreme court should do good to return to drawing board and prepare for the next election in 4 years time maybe it could be lucky to get forgiven for her sins against the electorates in Osun State. This one is completely gone by the grace of God. Governor Ademola Adeleke will spend his two terms of allowable 8 years uninterrupted in office. This is my prophecy Insha Allah.

Akintunde Bello Sheriff ABS writes in from Abuja, Nigeria but based in Osun State. ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️

A typical Nigerian politician will never do that.