Appeal Court Upholds Adeleke’s Election, Awards N500,000 Damages Against Oyetola, APC

Justice Mohammed Lawal, of the Appeal Court, Abuja, has awarded N500, 000 cost against the All Progressive Congress, APC, and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola

They are to pay the governor of Osun state, Ademola Adeleke total of five hundred thousand.

The court also vacated the tribunal judgement that nullified the election of Adeleke.

The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, held that the appeal Adeleke lodged to challenge his sack by the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, was meritorious.

The Osun tribunal had annulled Adeleke’s victory and affirmed Gboyega Oyetola of All Progressives Congress as the authentic winner of the poll.

The Choicereporters report that the Independent National Electoral Commission had returned Adeleke as the winner of the poll.

INEC said Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to defeat then-incumbent Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of the APC, who got 375,027 votes

But Oyetola and the APC rejected the result of the poll and headed for the tribunal.

its January 27, 2023 majority verdict, the Justice Tertse Kume-led tribunal annulled Adeleke’s victory and declared Oyetola the winner of the poll.

However, a minority judgment by Justice B. Ogbuli affirmed Adeleke as the winner of the poll.

Adeleke and the PDP subsequently apealed the judgement.

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