2022 Osun Guber Election: History Repeats Itself As Supreme Court Upholds Gov Ademola Adeleke’s Victory

Nigeria’s apex court, the Supreme Court, has upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal, Abuja  which in March 2023  overruled the Osun state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal headed by Justice Tetse Kume.

  The Tribunal had in January this year ordered the electoral umpire; the  Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Governor Ademola  Adeleke and  issue a fresh one  to  Alhaji  Adegboyega Oyetola, who was the APC gubernatorial candidate in the governorship election held in the state on July 16 2022.

All eyes  had been on the nation’s apex court for a final decision on matters concerning the July 16 2022 gubernatorial election .

Supporters and  members  of the PDP in Osun state will therefore definitely spend  the remaining part of today celebrating and they will clink glasses wherever they gather  after being kept in suspense for weeks.

Team@orientactualmags.com  learned the Supreme Court in  the judgment read by Justice Emmanuel Agim  set aside the appeal by Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola challenging the election of Governor Ademola Adeleke while also upholding  the Appeal Court ruling that had   affirmed  Governor Adeleke’s election victory.

 It will be recalled that appeal court had  in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, held that the appeal  by Adeleke  in respect of the decision of  the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, was meritorious.

Apart from setting aside the tribunal’s decision , the court, in its lead judgment that was delivered by Justice Mohammed Lawal,  also awarded N500, 000 costs against the All Progressive Congress, APC, and its candidate, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola.

Oyetola and  Adeleke had stood as candidates of the APC and the  PDP respectively  in the 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial elections .

History had  simply  repeated itself !  It will be recalled that after  the  gubernatorial election held in the state in September  2018, Governor Adeleke had questioned the declaration of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola as winner of the election by INEC  and while he had  won at the Tribunal,  Oyetola  later won at the Court of Appeal and finally at the Supreme Court on July 5  2019  in a judgment  read by  Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour.

Adeleke  was sworn in as sixth executive governor of Osun state  by the state Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Adepele Ojo  on Sunday, November  27 2022-  Team@orientactualmags.com
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