Sunday Musings: That Osun/Adeleke/Oyetola Court Judgment - By Bolaji Aluko
Anybody following the Osun tribunal proceedings in real time must have had a feeling that something was wrong somewhere, and that many polling units would eventually be cancelled. Adeleke being from Ede, we were being regaled with admitted systemic problems in that Ede axis during and after the elections, and virtually all the 744 polling units with problems eventually cancelled for all candidates involved, not just Oyetola and Adeleke, were in that axis. Leading up to the judgment, what was not clear was that: 1. Enough cancelled votes would lead to the up-turning of the present winner. I suspected this to be so ahead of time. 2. The Judges would be split in their decision. This may be the real howler, at the end of the day. But it gives Adeleke hope that he may yet dance in final victory, since the last fat person - the Supreme Court - has not sung yet, since a split decision at lower court can split t...












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