The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing on an appeal seeking to remove Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke from office for Tuesday, May 9, 2023.
Former Governor Oyetola is appealing the March 25 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which upheld Adeleke’s victory in the last governorship election in Osun State.
In its decision, the Appeal Court overturned an earlier decision by the Osun Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which ruled in favor of Oyetola and removed Ademola Adeleke.
However, after hearing arguments from lawyers and parties on Monday, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court announced the date.
Remember that the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal heard your case.
had, in a split decision on January 27, declared Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the winner of the gubernatorial election.
In its majority verdict, the three-member panel tribunal led by Justice Tertsea Kume upheld a petition brought before it by the former governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who finished second in the election.
It ruled that Adeleke did not receive a majority of valid votes, and that the election was not conducted in substantial compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act of 2022.
The petitioners, Oyetola and APC, successfully established that there was over voting in 744 polling units in the state, according to the tribunal. After subtracting the aforementioned invalid votes,
The tribunal declared Oyetola the winner of the governorship election while ordering INEC to withdraw the Certificate of Return it had previously issued to Adeleke.
However, in his dissenting opinion, the third member of the panel, Justice P. Ogbuli, affirmed Adeleke as the legitimate winner of the election while dismissing the petition filed by Oyetola and the APC.
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