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Adeleke vs Oyetola: What Supreme Court decided on Monday
The Supreme Court
has fixed judgment for July 5, 2019 in the appeals filed by Senator Ademola
Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with respect to the disputed last
governorship election in Osun State.
A seven-man panel
of the court, led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim
Muhammad, chose the date after taking final arguments regarding the main
appeal, marked: SC/553/2019 filed by Adeleke.
Adeleke, who filed
four appeals, is challenging the May 9, 2019 judgment of the Court of Appeal,
Abuja, which affirmed the election of Adegboyega Oyetola of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Osun State.
The Court of Appeal
also set aside the majority judgment of the election tribunal which had allowed
Adeleke’s petition and declared him winner of the election.
On Monday, by
agreement of lawyers in the appeals, the court took submissions from Onyechi
Ikpeazu (SAN) for the appellants and Wole Olanipekun (SAN) for the 1st
respondent (Oyetola) in respect of appeal marked: SC/553/2019.
The court said its
judgment in the main appeal – SC/553/2019 – will be applied to two other
similar one, filed by Adeleke against the Court of Appeal’s decision in
relation to the appeals filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) and the APC.
The court, which
stood down proceedings for a while, is expected to resume soon to take the last
fourth appeal by Adeleke, marked: SC/556/2019.
Other members of
the panel are: Justices Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, Kumai Aka’ahs, Kudirat
Kekere-Ekun, Amiru Sanusi, Paul Galunmje and Uwani Abbah-Aji
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