UPDATE: How Supreme Court Affirmed Adeleke’s Victory As Osun Governor

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, dismissed an appeal brought before it by the immediate past governor of Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) seeking the sack of Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the validly elected governor of Osun.

In a judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the five-member panel of Justices of the apex court held that Oyetola’s appeal “lacks merit” and consequently dismissed it.

The court upheld the judgment and the consequential order of the Court of Appeal which affirmed Adeleke as the validly elected governor of Osun.

Justice Agim, in the judgment held that the appellant (Oyetola) failed to prove the allegations of over-voting and other irregularities in the conduct of the election.

Oyetola and his party, in their appeal numbered, SC/CV/510/2023, are praying the apex court to set aside the decision of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which voided the judgment of the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal, which returned Oyetola as winner of the July 16, 2022 governorship election.

INEC had last year declared Adeleke as winner of the election having scored majority of the votes cast in the election, however, the tribunal in its split judgment of two-to-one delivered in January, held that Oyetola and not Adeleke won majority of the lawful votes in the election.

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