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Adegboyega Oyetola, a former governor of Osun State, and the All Progressives Congress, the petitioners before the Election Petition Tribunal hearing cases related to the July 16 Osun governorship election, concluded their case on Saturday.
At the hearing on Saturday, the panel also allowed genuine copies of Form CF001 and all of its attachments, which were utilized by Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, to run for governor in 2018.
The Independent National Electoral Commission provided the panel with the documents via Deputy Director Joan Arabs after counsel for the petitioners Mr. Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, had gone over them and they were admitted as exhibits.
Earlier, counsel to INEC, the 1st respondent in the matter, Mr Henry Akunebo, informed the panel that an original file of Adeleke’s GCE results, testimonial as contained in Form CF001 he used to contest the 2018 election, had been brought by his client in compliance with the order of the Tribunal.
Adeleke’s GCE scores and a testimonial from the Ede Muslim Grammar School, Ede, were both hazy when INEC delivered the documents last Thursday as requested by the panel, and the Commission was instructed to bring a clearer copy at the next meeting.
After reviewing the original copies brought by the first respondent, the attorneys for Adeleke, the second respondent in the case, Mr. Niyi Owolade, and PDP, the third respondent, Dr. Alex Izinyon, SAN, stated that the documents were more legible than those previously presented.
The petitioners’ attorney, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, reviewed the documents and determined that they were readable enough to present to the panel.
The respondents’ legal counsel, however, objected to the submission of the documents, but they saved their defense for the final written address stage.
Izinyon added that only two pages out of the documents previously provided by INEC were claimed to be fuzzy, hence the full document and its attachment could not be admitted.
Fagbemi insisted that the whole set of documents be accepted instead because the panel had previously only accepted the copies that INEC had brought.
All of the original documents brought by INEC were accepted by the panel, who designated them as exhibit “FILE D.”
In his subsequent remarks to the panel, Fagbemi stated that the petitioners had concluded their case.
In his ruling, the panel chairman, Justice Tetse Kume, adjourned further hearing till December 20 for the respondents to open their case.
Vincent Paul
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