The Ogun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has reserved judgment in the petitions filed against the election of Governor Dapo Abiodun and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The tribunal led by Justice Hamidu Kunaza, said it would communicate a date for judgment to the parties after counsels adopted their final written addresses on Monday.
Ladi Adebutu and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are challenging the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s governorship candidate, Dapo Abiodun in the March 18 governorship elections in Ogun State.
Adopting his address, Counsel to Dapo Abiodun, Wole Olanipekun, (SAN) asked the court to dismiss the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party for lacking in merit and a mere academic exercise.
He noted that the sole petitions of the petitioners were not duly signed and stamped and, therefore lacked merit to be adopted and should be stuck out.
In his counter-argument, Counsel to the PDP candidate, Ladi Adebutu, Chris Uche, SAN, argued that, all documents presented by the petitioners were gotten from INEC.
Adopting his final written address, Chris Uche, SAN urged the tribunal to declare Ladi Adebutu winner of the governorship election.
Uche equally urged the tribunal to remove a total number of 40, 871 votes from Dapo Abiodun’s polled votes and order a rerun in the 99 polling units where elections were allegedly disrupted.
Addressing journalists shortly after the adjournment, Counsel to APC, Tayo Oyetubo expressed confidence in the tribunal of upholding the victory of Dapo Abiodun.
“All parties have addressed the court on the case before the court and the matter has been adjourned for judgment. The case that was brought to the tribunal was attacked on different grounds in terms of competence, in terms of substance, and in terms of the quality of the witnesses that were brought, all of those issues have been adequately canvassed before the court and that in a nutshell, the respondents are confident that they’ve done a good job and winning the case.”
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