By John Chuks Azu


Two justices of the Supreme Court has delivered dissenting judgments and upheld Senator Ademola Adeleke as winner of the Osun governorship election.

Justices Adamu Galinje and Kumai Akaahs have held that Senator Adeleke scored the majority votes in the September 22 governorship election and fulfilled the constitutional requirement to be declared winner.

Justice Galinje held that nullifying the proceedings of the Election Petitions Tribunal on the grounds of the absence of Justice Peter Obiorah on only the proceedings of February 6th without a certified true copy of the original record of the proceedings tendered before the appellate court is “mere conjecture”

“The appeal is meritorious and has to be allowed. I allow the appeal and set aside the court of appeal decision,” Justice Galinje said.

For his part, Justice Akaahs held that the apex court should have narrowed its consideration on whether the appellant (Adeleke) scored the highest votes in the main election as provided by the constitution.

“I hold that there was no need for the rerun election and declare that appellant is the winner of the election and should be declared the winner,” he said.

KidsNEXTdoor:
Justice system is dead in Nigeria

Buhari is a failure

Uteghe:
Minority will have their say,majority will have their way. Congrats Gov Oyetola. Wailers can reach for their tear buckets.

Uteghe:
Minority will have their say,majority will have their way. Congrats Gov Oyetola. Wailers can reach for their tear buckets.

Livefreeordieha:
may the same fate visit u before ur demise in Jesus name... Ur understanding and tolerance will be put to test... The only problem is none of us that read ur crap will be there to question it..

Remember what goes around comes around..

NB I'm neither PDP nor APC... And the only reason I quoted u was because ur choice of words underscored ur existence..

tuniski:
That is the beauty of it every justice gives basis for his/her decision. Clearly Adeleke won the election but, Oyetola won the trial. That Justice Obiora should just retire kawai.

HE SHOULD RETIRE BECAUSE THE JUDGEMENT DID NOT FAVOUR THE LOOTING MACHINE.A TYPICAL WAILER IS SPOTTED,