Osun state PDP has accused Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of carrying out an agenda aimed at discrediting the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal through what the party called outright lies and misrepresentation of the proceedings of the tribunal.
The PDP through one of its senior counsels, N.O. Oke, SAN had subsequently reported the APC to the Tribunal Chairman for allegedly lying about the proceedings of the tribunal.
The Tribunal had proceeded to ask for those publications in response to the submission of the counsel for the PDP since misrepresentation deserves necessary sanctions.
The State PDP Chairman, Dr Adekunle Akindele in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com on Friday berated the APC for allegedly undermining the integrity of the judges by deliberately lying in respect of the common agreement reached by all counsels with the judges on how the proceedings should be conducted.
The party noted that at the start of the tribunal, the Chairman had sought and secured the understanding of all counsels that objections to documents tendering should be reserved until the last day during addresses by parties.
‘All respondents agreed to the request meaning that counsels can bring any document no matter how worthless but its merit or otherwise will be determined during the address stage.
It was in keeping with this agreement that the PDP did not object to all the worthless documents being submitted to the Tribunal. At the address stage, our team will knock out those so -called documents tendered as they lack merit on all grounds’ the statement said.
‘All the documents being presented by the APC will become irrelevant by the time the respondents take the stage for their addresses.
Let me reaffirm that admission of the documents is not in anyway a confirmation of veracity of the contents. We all agreed that all sides can tender whatever they have. That was our agreement with the panel. What the Tribunal did in good faith is now being abused by the APC because it is more interested in media trial than the tribunal looking into its petition.
The APC came up with many documents that are not even pleaded in their original submissions. They claimed certificate forgery which we will dispel as Ademola Adeleke has certified certificates authenticated from all institutions he attended. The many lies APC is peddling is because it has no case against Senator Adeleke’s emergence as Osun state Governor-elect.
It is indeed a disservice to the judiciary for the APC to go to town and misrepresent a common agreement. We did not object to those groundless documents because our turn is coming during address stage. APC is known for lies and that was one of the reasons why Osun people voted them out of power’ Adekunle added.
The party reassured supporters and people of Osun state that the election victory of former Senator Ademola Adeleke ‘is not shaken by the valueless submissions of the APC’ , adding that ‘as at today, it was APC that sought adjournment because it is aware that all its lies will be demolished when we take the stage;.
Akindele restated his submission that the Governor-elect did not present any forged certificates as all his educational qualifications ‘are original and genuine’ .
‘The APC and Mr Oyetola sent a team to the United States to investigate the certificates of Senator Adeleke. They found no smoking guns as all the schools confirmed our Governor-elect as their former student. APC is just chasing shadows.
Our lawyers are on top of the case. Mr Oyetola has no case. He has been defeated and he should relocate to Lagos or Iragbiji’ the statement concluded- Team@orientactualmags.com
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