Supreme court, on Tue May 9th, 2023 affirmed the election of Ademola Adeleke as the governor of Osun state.
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Delivering judgment on Tuesday, a five-member panel of the apex court held that the court of appeal correctly reinstated Adeleke as governor.
In the lead judgment prepared and delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, a member of the five-man panel that presided over the case, the court held that the appellants, Mr Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC), did not produce concrete evidence to support their claims of over voting and improper accreditation of voters.
Agim held that the evidence submitted by the appellant which did not include the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines of the 744 polling units in dispute, could not be relied upon as the primary source of records for the accredited voters in the polling units.
Failing to provide the authentic voter accreditation records from the BVAS implied that the appellants relied on secondary, insufficient and inadmissible means to prove their allegations.
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