Oyetola wins Adeleke in Appeal Court

The Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has declared Governor Gboyega Oyetola as the winner of last year’s gubernatorial election in Osun State.

A five-member panel of the appeal court led by Justice Jummai Sankey delivered the lead judgement which favored Governor Oyetola.

The Appeal Court also said that the entire proceeding leading to the tribunal’s judgement could not stand because of its "faulty composition."

Justice Sankey noted that the matter ought not to be returned to the tribunal for the fact that it was a post-election case where time for its adjudication could not be expanded or elongated.

She declared that Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who is the petitioner, did not prove beyond reasonable doubt that there was substantial non-compliance to the Electoral Act by the absence of the ballot paper records.

This declaration has now set aside the victory of Senator Adeleke at the Osun governorship Election Tribunal.