Osun state Governor-elect, former Senator Ademola Adeleke , has condemned what he called sponsored social media posts with regard to his alleged admission of over voting in the gubernatorial election held on 16 July 2022 while accusing Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the APC of criminal misrepresentation of facts before the Tribunal.
In a statement issued in Osogbo on Sunday which was made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by his spokesman, Mallam Olawale Rasheed , the Governor-elect noted that his defence at the Tribunal disproved Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s claim of over voting in 750 polling units as this was created by the incomplete data of BVAS based on the unsynchronized BVAS report that was used by the petitioners.
The statement further affirmed that the false over voting does not represent what was on the BVAS machine itself and the Forms EC8A, explaining that a full statement of the Governor-elect made on oath at the Tribunal was explicit and detailed.
‘For the benefit of members of the public, there are two aspects to the defence with respect to the over voting claims by the APC.
The first aspect is that the over voting in 750 polling units as claimed by Oyetola/APC in their petition is false as it was created by the incomplete data of BVAS based on the unsynchronized BVAS report.
This does not represent what is on the BVAS machine itself and the Forms EC8A. The correct result is as captured in the synchronized BVAS report which tallies with the data on the BVAS MACHINE itself’ he said.
The statement also affirmed further that even if the false over voting in the unsynchronized BVAS report gets admitted even though unlikely, the PDP will still be leading if votes from the affected six polling units were removed, adding that ‘such an admission is however impossible because the Tribunal will never rely on the unsynchronized BVAS report because is at variance with what is contained in the BVAS machine itself’.
The statement while clarifying that the digital foot print of the BVAS machine was verifiable, also submitted that both the Governor -elect and INEC had put the BVAS machines itself before the Tribunal for examination.
The statement further noted that from the analysis on the BVAS machine itself and the Form EC8A which were the primary source as against BVAS report which was secondary, real over voting occurred at only six polling units, submitting that if the votes in those six polling units were eventually cancelled, the votes PDP got will be 402,000 plus while that of the APC will be 374,000.
‘We must emphasize that BVAS report is secondary evidence, while the BVAS machine itself and the EC8A are primary source. No Tribunal will believe a challenged secondary source while the primary source is physically before it.
We have gone into these details to show that Senator Adeleke never admitted in the polling units challenged by the APC/Oyetola except in only 6 polling units where there was real over voting as contained in the BVAS machine itself and the Forms.
We therefore urge APC and Mr Oyetola to stop media trial as it will not intimidate the Tribunal nor sway public opinion to believe in the habitual lying and propaganda of the defeated party’ Olawale submitted- Team@orientactualmags.com
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