Osun Election Tribunal Admits Governor Adeleke’s Results As Predecessor, Oyetola, APC Close Case
Adedokun Waliyu 
The panel also admitted original copies of Form CF001 and all its attachments used by Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to run in the 2018 governorship elections.
A former Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and the All Progressives Congress, the petitioners before the Election Petition Tribunal hearing matters related to the July 16 Osun governorship election, closed their case on Saturday.
At Saturday’s hearing, the panel also admitted original copies of Form CF001 and all its attachments used by Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to run in the 2018 governorship elections.
The documents presented to the panel by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) through a Deputy Director, Joan Arabs, after Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, counselled the petitioners, were admitted as exhibits.
After Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, counselled the petitioners, the documents presented to the panel by the Independent National Electoral Commission through a Deputy Director, Joan Arabs, were admitted as exhibits.
The documents were presented at last Thursday’s sitting by INEC, which had been subpoenaed by the panel, but Adeleke’s GCE results and testimonial obtained from Ede Muslim Grammar School, Ede, were noted to be blurry, and the Commission was ordered to bring a clearer copy at the next sitting.
Counsel for Adeleke, the second respondent in the case, Mr Niyi Owolade, and Dr Alex Izinyon, SAN for PDP, the third respondent, said they had gone through the original copies brought by the first respondent, noting that the documents were more legible than the previous ones presented.
After reviewing the documents, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who represented the petitioners, stated that they were legible and requested that they be presented to the panel.
The documents were presented at last Thursday’s sitting by INEC, which had been subpoenaed by the panel, but Adeleke’s GCE results and testimonial obtained from Ede Muslim Grammar School, Ede, were noted to be blurry, and the Commission was ordered to bring a clearer copy at the next sitting.
Counsel for Adeleke, the second respondent in the case, Mr Niyi Owolade, and Dr Alex Izinyon, SAN for PDP, the third respondent, said they had gone through the original copies brought by the first respondent, noting that the documents were more legible than the previous ones presented.
After reviewing the documents, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who represented the petitioners, stated that they were legible and requested that they be presented to the panel.
However, the respondents’ counsel objected to the tendering of the documents, but they reserved their argument until the final written address stage.
Izinyon also stated that the entire document and its attachment could not be admitted because only two pages of the ones previously brought by INEC were said to be blurry.
However, Fagbemi insisted that the entire set of documents be admitted because the panel had previously rejected the copies brought by INEC.
The panel accepted all of INEC’s original documents and labelled them as exhibit ‘FILE D.’
While addressing the panel again, Fagbemi stated that the petitioners’ case had been closed.
The panel chairman, Justice Tetse Kume, adjourned further hearings until December 20 to allow the respondents to present their case.
