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Abiodun, APC, INEC Urge Appeal Court To Dismiss PDP, Adebutu’s Petition For Lacking In Merit

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November 14, 2023
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Governor Dapo Abiodun, of Ogun State on Tuesday asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos to dismiss the appeal filed against the judgment of the Ogun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal by the PDP and his candidate in the March 18 governorship election, Ladi Adebutu.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), similarly urged the Court of Appeal to dismiss the appeal filed by PDP and Adebutu.

The tribunal had in its judgment on September 30 affirmed the election of the governor and dismissed the petition filed by PDP and Adebutu.

At the hearing of the appeal on Tuesday in Lagos, Abiodun, APC, and INEC told the three-man panel of justices, led by Justice Joseph Shagbaor Ikyegh that the appeal by Adebutu and PDP, lacked merit and was ambitious.

Leading the argument, counsel to first Respondent (INEC), A.J. Owonikoko ,SAN , urged the Court to dismiss the appeal for lacking in merit.

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Reacting to the issue of 49,000 disenfranchised voters, raised by the Appellants’ counsel, Chief Chris Uche SAN, Owonikoko referred to paragraphs 4.37 to 4.40 at pages 18 and 19 of his Brief to point out that appellants only called 48 witnesses.

He explained that in cases of disenfranchisement,  all the disenfranchised voters must be called as witnesses but Appellants failed to do so.

He concluded that the Court cannot amplify 48 witnesses to 49,000 witnesses as Appellants want.

He urged the Court to dismiss the appeal

Counsel to the 2nd Respondent, Governor Abiodun, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, also identified and adopted his brief.

As a preliminary point, Olanipekun stated that contrary to the position set out by Chief Uche , SAN, the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the Atiku vs INEC case completely encapsulates the issues in the appeal.

He argued that in that appeal, the Supreme Court simply adopted in toto the decision of the Court of Appeal.

He added that incidentally, the same Samuel Oduntan who was rejected as a witness by the Court of Appeal in Atiku’s case metamorphosed as PW 93 in the appeal under consideration.

In response to the Court’s demand, Olanipekun promised to provide a copy of the judgment.

In addition, Olanipekun emphasised pages 3-5 of his brief where he identified about eight key findings of the tribunal that Appellants did not challenge, paragraph 4.3 of the brief arguing that Appellants have abandoned about 5 Grounds of Appeal, and issue 3 at page 17 of 2nd Respondent’s brief where 2nd Respondent argued that the Trial Tribunal rightly struck out paragraphs of the Appellants’ pleadings.

On the margin of lead, Olanipekun argued that there was nothing to even consider on margin of lead and urged the court to dismiss the appeal for lacking merit.

Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, appearing for the third Respondent (APC), emphasised that Exhibit PT609 is not a proper document to use (referring to Pages 71-72 of his Brief).

On the Atiku appeal, Ikpeazu, noted that the Supreme Court did not do anything novel as it relied on settled Constitutional positions already espoused in _Ararume v INEC_ and in _Oke v. Mimiko_ to the effect that all witness statements must accompany the petition.

He argued that all the witnesses who could be said to have given substantial evidence in this appeal did so on subpoenas and thus were rightly discountenanced.

He too urged the Court to dismiss the appeal.

Chief Uche, counsel to the Appellants had noted that there is a distinction between the facts in the Supreme Court decision in Atiku vs. INEC & 2 Ors and his clients’ appeal as cited by the 2nd Respondent in support of First and Second Issues raised.

He also told the judges that Appellants called 94 witnesses, half of which were Polling Unit Agents.

He added that on the issue of margin of lead, that elections did not hold in 99 Polling Units based on which about 41,000 votes were excluded.

He also pointed out that up to 37,000 ballot papers utilised by INEC were either not thumb printed or carried multiple thumb prints.

While calling on the court to allow the appeal , Uche said when the 41,000 and 37,000 votes are utilised, the declaration of Governor Abiodun would have been set aside.

The Court of Appeal reserved judgment to a date to be communicated in the future.     (vitalnewsngr.com)

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