Jan 18th, 2008
Tribunal overrules Agagu on admittance of Mimiko’s documents
Tribunal overrules Agagu on admittance of Mimiko’s documents – Vanguard.
THE Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital yesterday, overruled the objection of Governor Olusegun Agagu not to admit some documents presented by the Labour Party governorship candidate in the state Dr Olusegun Mimiko challenging his victory at the polls.
Also, the tribunal ruled that both parties in the suit should present before it all documents in respect of their cases and they would be admitted as read in order to fast tract the matter.
It fixed next week Wednesday and Thursday for Dr Mimiko to present his witnesses as further hearing in the petition continues
Dr Agagu’s counsel Chief Kayode Olatoke said at the resume of the petition filed by Labour Party challenging his victory at the April 14 polls that the documents emanated from INEC were only certified but not signed.
Dr. Olatoke argued that the tribunal should not admit the document, as they were defective adding that some of the document sought to tender failed to meet the required condition as contained in the Evidence Act. The documents in question only had the stamp of INEC that certified them but did not have any author or signature.
Olatoke said the “documents were merely ordinary sheet of paper which anybody could put INEC stamps to them and as such is not tenable at the tribunal.
“I hereby rejected the documents which were not tendered by INEC but were listed by the Labour Party to be tender to the Tribunal”.
But at the resume of the matter, the Chairman of the Tribunal Justice Garba Nabaruma expressed worries over the delay tactics of counsel for about two months cited paragraph 4, 5, and 6 sub section 5, paragraph 5 sub section 10 of the practice direction rule 29 of the Federal High Court to buttress his order that the documents be brought by both parties to fast tract the petition.
9 Responses to “Tribunal overrules Agagu on admittance of Mimiko’s documents”
Pharaoh thought he could use delay tactics to hold the Israelites to ransom and rob them of their freedom to prosperity and great success but he failed when the Almighty God came to the scene. I strongly believe that this is the year of victory for our dear MIMIKO. Our people are anxiously waiting to celebrate the vicotory. Move on!
Other headlines will soon follow this after the victory of Dr Segun Mimiko is announced by the grace of God. While it will be rejoicing for the just and true and faithful, it will be weeping and gnashing of teeth for the looters and robbers and their sycophantic and alatenuje followers in Ondo State by the grace of God.
MIMIKO YI JOOOO GBA SIBEEEE. Your slogan will never die and your light will never wane for Ondo State shall be liberated and given a one to envy governance yet under you.
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PDP again Wins at Election Tribunal (Jan 21,’08)The Election Petition Tribunal today dismissed the petition of the candidate of the Labour Party in the last House of Assembly election Mr. Victor Adesulu Akinwe against the winner of the election Hon. Mayowa Akinfolarin for the Odigbo local government slot in the State’s House of Assembly.
The petitioner alledged multiple thumbprinting, falsification of results, intimidation, ballot box snatching, arithmetical errors and intimidation by solders amongst severla allegations.
After a thorough evaluation of the petition as articulated by the counsel to the Labour Party, Dr. Olumide Ayeni and the reactions of the counsel to the PDP, Dr. Kayode Olatoke, the Tribunal declared that the petition failed to comply with Section 1 of the Electoral Act and that the petioner failed to prove his case beyond all possible doubts. The Tribunal subsequently threw out the petition.
In his reaction, Hon. Mayowa Akinfolarin described the Labour Party as a bunch of power seeking individuals who are selfishly seeking ill opportunities to derail the peaceful co-existence that exist in the state and drag positive minded people back in the effort to re-position the state. He described the judgment as a victory for democracy.
LABOUR PARTY’S LOSS IS AKINFOLARIN’S GAIN. PLEASE INFORM MR. AKINWE TO APPEAL BECAUSE LAWYERS MUST CHOP. AFTERALL, AMAECHI WON AT THE SUPREME COURT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.D.P! POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
PDP MADE IROKO SSG
PDP MADE IROKO MINISTER
I WON’T CURSE ANYONE HERE, BUT ANYBODY WHO SO MUCH AS THOUGHT UP A CURSE OR UTTER ONE OR EXPRESS EVEN A LITTLE BIT IN WRITING BCOS OF THIS FREE EXPRESSION OF JOY WILL HAVESUCH WISHES COMING TO HIM OR HER IN MULTIPLE FOLD.
AGAGU LEKE! LEKE!!
mr akinduro, you might not appreciate what it means to stole peoples mandate. you may not even knows what mandate means in real sense but one thing is clear enough that no matter how one has been trying to deceive others, manipulating and forcing his wishes on peole, it will catch up with him one day.
you can be happy now that tribunal striked out LP’s case but to us on the right path, we are not bothered at all.
if i want to ask, what are the gains of democracy akinforlaring has been able to woo for his constituency?
how many scholaship has he been able to give the indigent students in his constitency?
i can only refer to people like you as mediocares who dont know there right from left, celebrating falsehood all the time.
if you dont know, you have sold your future to this greedy and irresponsible polititians, who cannot even speak simple and correct sentence in the floor of the house.
woe on to you.
TRIBUNAL UPHOLDS PDP AKINFOLARIN’s ELECTION
Despite his not speaking good English and consistent refusal to provide scholarship for students from his area, the Ondo State Election Petition Tribunal has upheld the election of Hon. Mayowa Akinfolarin. The tribunal ruled that inability to speak English and refusal to give scholarship are non of the grounds recognized by the electoral law for the disqualification of winners. Excerpts below:
Tribunal upholds Ondo dep speaker’s election
Yinka Oladoyinbo, Akure – 22.01.2008
The election petition tribunal sitting in Akure, Ondo State, on Monday upheld the election of the Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Mayowa Akinfolarin, and dismissed the petition filed against his election.
The five-man tribunal, headed by Justice Garba Nabaruma, in a one and a half hours judgment, dismissed the petition of the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Mr. Victor Akinwe, in the April 14, 2007 House of Assembly election.
The tribunal, in the judgment read by Justice Monsur Oredola, held that the petitioner had “woefully failed to prove his case,” thereby making it unsuccessful.
Akinwe had in a petitioned filed on May 14, 2007 challenged the return of Akinfolarin as the person duly elected through the lawful votes cast at the election.
In the written address of Akinwe, through his counsel, Mr. Aderemi Olatubora, the petitioner contended that he scored the lawful votes to be declared as the winner of the election.
Olatubora, in his submission, said there was no election in the entire Ore Ward 11, Odigbo Ward Eight and units one, three, 11, 12, 13 and 15 of Agbabu Ward One.
He contented that if the scores attributable to the wards and units were deducted from the result declared by the Idependent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the scores on the basis of the lawful votes cast would be 5,669 for the petitioner and 5,404 for the first respondent (Akinfolarin).
But counsel to the deputy speaker, Mr. Hassan Fagimite, while arguing his case, said contrary to the claims of the petitioner, election actually took place in the constituency.
He said all the witnesses of the petitioner failed to establish the case of irregularities during the election.
Fagimite said the 10 witnesses called by Akinfolarin were not saying the truth when they alleged that Akinfolarin was in the midst of thugs snatching ballot boxes during the election.
Delivering the judgment, the tribunal held that the onus was on the petitioner to prove his allegations against the election with substantial evidence.
It added that Akinwe had failed to prove the allegation of thuggery, irregularity and intimidation of voters aided by soldiers and disruption of voting by thugs assisted by Akinfolarin.
Apart from this, the tribunal said the petitioner was unable to substantiate his claim of inflation of election results and alterations on the election result sheets.
It added that the petition was dismissed because the petitioner could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that Akinfolarin participated in any violence during the election.
Reacting to judgment, Akinfolarin said the tribunal had confirmed his innocence of any of the allegations levelled against him by the petitioner.
He added that the judgment was a victory for democracy and the people of his constituency.
All is well, for I know that the TRUTH about the ~Ondo State governorship elections in April 2007, the massive riggings, the autocratic and forced fake results and the illegal declaration of the loser as governor will definitely get the just rulling in Ondo State. Lies live only for a while and is quickly overtaken by truth. The truth will prevail in Ondo State, and the truth is well known to all, including PDP, that OLUSEGUN MIMIKO WON THE APRIL POLLS AND DEFEATED AGAGU HANDS DOWN. That can never be erased, and this truth will definitely prevail, no matter what trump card Agagu and PDP think they have played, this time, it will not work, for no one is above God, and the real God is a God of unrivalled justice. If you dont believe me, what right now is happening to the powerdrunken, almighty area father, who is the architect of all this problems? I mean Olusegun Obasanjo himself. He is falling deeper and deeper, from grace to grass to ignominy. He is overshadowed and overtaken by calamity, and this I understand is just the start. THE FEAR OF GOD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM, AND IT IS ONLY THE FOOL THAT SAYS IN HIS HEART THAT THERE IS NO GOD. So be ready for the TRUTH. Congrats to all who are holding on to the truth, following the right path, supporting the just cause and working for the emancipation of the ordinary people of Ondo State from this Pharaoh.
@Akinduro Egin,
“PDP MADE IROKO SSG
PDP MADE IROKO MINISTER”
WRONG.
IROKO WORKED AND EARNED THESE POSITIONS AND WAS NOT FORCED ON THE PEOPLE AND MADE TO BECOME THEIR SLAVEMASTER. IN POLITICS, I DONT THINK YOU ARE MADE TO SWEAR SECRET ALLEGIANCE TO WHAT YOU NO LONGER BELIEVE IN.
These were deserving positions that Mimiko worked hard in and never stole, dishonour or bring into disrepute his integrity and that of the position in any way.
PDD MADE AGAGU GOVERNOR, what has he done for the people in this position, I mean what has he truthfully and honestly done? Let us forget about loud sounding empty words the people are being fooled with all the time. By the people, i do not mean the selected few who are constantly getting contracts and feeding fat on the plight of the people.
this is inform you that the tribunal are wasting on the matter,i believe that by now that the tribunal should finished the whole case,by deliver the judgement on time.the second fact is that the jugement before the end of the month which is april