Supreme Court Dismisses Adeleke, PDP’s Appeal,
Senator Ademola Adeleke
An appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and Ademola Adeleke, its governorship candidate in the governorship election in Osun State, to challenge the election of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.
In a split decision of five to two, the apex court’s panel of seven Justices held that the proceedings and the majority judgment of the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal which had declared the PDP as the winner of the poll were a nullity.
Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour who read the lead majority judgment of the apex court held that the absence of Justice Peter Obiorah who later read the lead judgment of the tribunal during the February 6, 2019 hearing, had rendered the entire proceedings of the said tribunal and its judgment a nullity.
The Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad and three other members consented to the lead majority judgment, but Justice Kumai Akaahs and Justice Paul Galinje affirmed PDP as the winner of the poll.
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