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Ogun Election Tribunal : Police, NDLEA Tender More Evidence Against Adebutu On Vote Buying

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August 8, 2023
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Abeokuta –  The Nigerian Police  and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday tendered multiple evidences of vote buying against the Ogun State candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the March 18 governorship election , Oladipupo Adebutu.

Both the police and the NDLEA tendered the evidences at resumed sotting of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, through the counsel to the 2nd respondent (Governor Dapo Abiodun) Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN.

The documents tendered included reports from NDLEA, dated 18th March 2023 in relation to the possession of preloaded ATM cards with the inscription of Mrs Caroline Adebutu, mother of the PDP governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu; Police investigation report in respect of bribery, dated 10th May, 2023; and the updated investigation report case of bribery, conspiracy undue influence, dated 7th June 2023.

All the documents were accordingly certified and tendered after he had earlier prayed the court for 30 minutes stand down to enable the second respondent tidy up some issues.

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Counsel to the petitioners, Gordy Uche, SAN, in his reaction, objected to all the tendered documents.

He said there was an earlier agreement among the parties during pre-hearing that a party seeking to tender documents must give the other side 24 hours’ notice before tendering the documents.

He stressed that the documents about to be tendered were never front-loaded in the petition, adding that two of the reports were just certified on Monday 7th, August 2023.

He, however, reserved his objection till his final address, including the WAEC certificate of the 2nd respondent, tendered, as he prayed the tribunal for a 2-hour stand down to study the documents accordingly, which was granted by the panel.

Counsel to the 2nd respondent, Chief Olanipekun, SAN, agreed with the counsel to the petitioner that a stand down was necessary to enable them to study the documents but felt that one hour would be enough.

The Director of All Progressives Congress,(APC’s) governorship campaign, Apostle Solomon Sanyaolu, later appeared before the panel after resumption, in which he confirmed the WAEC result of Governor Abiodun to be original in line with paragraphs 86 &87 of his statement of oath when cross-examined by counsel to the 2nd respondent.

He also confirmed the distribution of ATM cards by Adebutu during the polls, by submitting a statement of account to that effect, in line with paragraph 51 of his statement of oath, including delivery note of the preloaded ATM cards.

The witness, while being cross-examined by the counsel to the 3rd respondent, Mr Tayo Oyetibo SAN, said he saw the agents of the petitioner, Oladipupo Adebutu, openly distributing ATM cards which was reported to the Police and necessary investigation was carried out.

The report has since been tendered before the panel and marked as RA17.

He was further asked to confirm that the petitioner ordered 200,000 units of ATM cards loaded with N10,000 on the 16& 17th of March.

The total amount deployed to buy the ATM Cards and voters totalling N2.291,500 billion from Account No:- 24092604, in which account holder indicated Oladipupo Adebutu.

Meanwhile, counsel to the 2nd respondent, Chief Olanipekun formally applied to close the case of the 2nd respondent.

The tribunal, therefore, granted the prayer of the counsel to the 2nd respondent, as Interim Police Report marked as RA15 while that of the NDLEA marked as RA16.

Also, the original result of the 2nd respondent submitted was accepted as an exhibit of the panel in tandem with its procedure.

The tribunal, then adjourned the case till Wednesday 9th August, 2023 for continuation of hearing.

( vitalnewsngr.com)

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