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Gboyega Oyetola Closes Case At Tribunal As Panel Admits Ademola Adeleke’s Results

Former Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, and his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) have closed their case at the Election Petition Tribunal.

Gboyega Oyetola Closes Case At Against Ademola Adeleke

According to Punch, the immediate past governor and his petitioners closed their case before the tribunal hearing matters emanating from last July 16 Osun governorship election on Saturday.

The panel also at Saturday’s hearing admitted original copies of Form CF001 and all its attachments used by Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, to contest the 2018 governorship elections.

The documents presented to the panel by the Independent National Electoral Commission, through a Deputy Director, Joan Arabs, after counselling the petitioners, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, had checked through them, were admitted as exhibits.

Earlier, counsel to INEC, the 1st respondent in the matter, Mr Henry Akunebo, informed the panel that an original file of Adeleke’s GCE results, testimonial as contained in Form CF001 he used to contest the 2018 election, had been brought by his client in compliance with the order of the Tribunal.

At last Thursday’s sitting, INEC on subpoena by the panel had presented the documents, 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 to Adeleke, the second respondent in the matter, Mr Niyi Owolade, and that of PDP, the 3rd respondent, Dr Alex Izinyon, SAN, said they had gone through original copies brought by the 1st respondent, noting that the documents were more legible than the previous ones presented.

After going through the documents, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who represented the petitioners, said they were legible enough and applied to tender them before the panel.

But counsel to the respondents opposed tendering of the documents but they reserved their argument till the final written address stage.

Izinyon also said the entire documents and its attachment could not be admitted, since only two pages were said to be blurry, out of the ones previously brought by INEC.

But Fagbemi insisted that the entire documents should be admitted since the copies earlier brought by INEC had not been admitted by the panel.

The panel admitted all the original documents brought by INEC and tagged them as exhibit ‘FILE D.’

Fagbemi while further addressing the panel, said the petitioners had closed their case.

In his ruling, the panel chairman, Justice Tetse Kume, adjourned further hearing till December 20 for the respondents to open their case.

KanyiDaily recalls that Gboyega Oyetola had recently revealed that he left N14 billion in the state’s coffers despite not borrowing any money to finance the state’s economy.

Tobias Sylvester

Tobias Sylvester is the news editor for Kanyi Daily News and is based in Lagos. Contact Tobias at editor@kanyidaily.com. Got a confidential tip? Submit it here

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