Saturday, November 27, 2010

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: - My view Re: On the Little Matter of Aregbesola's Forgery Case-STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!

Further, in the light of such a revelation by Mike Okiro, then I-G of the NPF why did they not try to get to the bottom of the said forgery, but just stopped at the fact that the author of that story cannot appear before the court? A crime was purported to have been committed, and it was tossed off as if nothing had happened?
 
Such investigation and prosecution did not happen immediately and effectively, why was this?  Now, they wait until the court pronounced a judgment and then folks go ballistic. That is arrant nonsense.  To use that kind of arrant nonsense to be insolent to Professor Mobolaji Aluko, as Toyin Adepoju did is also regretable.
 
Further, it seems too that the court is not that stupid, going by the way they reached their conclusions in this case. It is the totality of the picture that should be looked into rather than just one episodic incidence regarding the issue.
 
Overall, these prolongated judicial rulings on election matters make a huge ridicule of our political system as it current is.  Nonetheless, the fact that justice can be eventually reached in these cases entail that somewhere along the way, and somehow, the Nigerian democratic process is evolving in creative and sustained, even if bitter, ways.

--- On Fri, 11/26/10, Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: - My view Re: On the Little Matter of Aregbesola's Forgery Case-STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!
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Date: Friday, November 26, 2010, 6:30 PM

 
 
Daniel Elombah:
 
Your enquiry was NOT as simple as you make it out. It was LOADED with bias, because as a reporter or e-journalist, it is incumbent upon you to ASCERTAIN some facts yourself before coming to the forum to ask some questions.
 
Read the following tract more closely, and you will find that actually the purportedly forged document was REJECTED at the Thomas Naron-led Election Tribunal level, giving a judgement on July 15, 2008, fifteen months after the April 14, 2007 elections. ["INEC had on April 14, 2007 declared Oyinlola winner of the Osun governorship poll with 422,666 votes, saying that Aregbesola of the ACN scored 240,722 votes."]  ["In its judgment, the five -man tribunal comprising Justices Naron, S. Mohammed, J.N. Akpughunum, A.T. Bademasi and J.E. Ekanem unanimously dismissed Aregbesola's petition."] That gave rise to the reason inter alia why the first Victor Omage-led Election Appeal Court (on March 30, 2009) sent the case back for re-trial before a new Justice Garba-led Election Tribunal.  Again the purportedly forged document was REJECTED again, as the second Tribunal delivered its judgement on May 28, 2010.  ["But the judgment of the second Election Petittions Tribunal comprising Justices Ali Garba (Chairman), Benedict Agbatah, Ismaila Bashir, Mohammed Alliyu and Abimbola Obaseki, also ended in controversy like the first tribunal.  The judgment of the retrial tribunal, which was delivered on May 28, 2010, also attracted criticism from the ACN which claimed that the judgment was characterised with alterations and cancellations. Another dimension was introduced into the saga when one of the judges (Justice Obaseki) refused to sign a supposedly unanimous judgment of 5-0. And to demonstrate the state of division among the tribunal panel, the space meant for Obaseki's signature was blank when the certified true copy of the judgment was made available to the parties"]   The last bus stop was therefore today's Clara Ogunbiyi-led Election Appeal Court verdict of November 26, 2010. ["A three-man panel led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun [leading Justices Sidi Bagge and J.K. Ikyogeh] had first heard the appeal and fixed November 3 for further hearing of the matter. But the court later fast-tracked the date and informed parties that they should come to court on November 1 with their briefs of argument. When the matter came up on November 1, a new five -man appeal panel led by Justice Clara Ogunbiyi heard the matter just as the lawyers to the parties adopted their briefs of argument. Other members of the panel are Justices M. L Garba, Paul Galinje, C. C. Nweze, and Adamu Jauro."]
 
 
QUOTE

It was gathered that police authorities are not taking the case with levity going by the fact that those who forged the document alleged that it emanated from the office of the Inspector-General of Police.

The Security Report, allegedly written by the police, was one of the fulcrum upon which the Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan on March 30, 2009, ordered for a re-trial of the election petition because it was rejected by the tribunal.

After the Appeal Court judgement, Oyinlola, in a letter with reference No EG/OS/ABJ/123 dated April 1, 2009, to the then Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, sought the release of the author of the report to give evidence whenever the retrial started.

However, Okiro, in a reply to the letter, said that "the purported Final Security Report did not emanate from 'B' Department (Operations) of the Nigeria Police Force."

According to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), the security report, which the AC candidate submitted as evidence, was a fake document as the purported police officer who signed the document was not a member of the Nigeria Police Force.

The IGP, while stating five reasons why the report was fake, said: "The report is fake as it does not reflect the style of police intelligence report. The letter head used by the author is forged, the reference No CL2341 reflected on the report does not exist in Nigeria Police Policy files. CSP Ahmed Mohammed, who signed the report and DSP Odiga Ame. J, who purportedly certified the report, are not members of the Nigeria Police Force."

Okiro continued: "In this regard, therefore, I am not in a position to oblige the appearance of the author at the tribunal when the retrial comes up."

UNQUOTE
 
 
For the record:
 
QUOTE
 
-- materials deleted ----
 
Aregbesola's legal team was led by Ebun Sofunde. But Chief Akin Olujimi(SAN) was the one that argued the case. Other lawyers of the ACN candidate were Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu(SAN), Mr. Kola Awodein(SAN), Mr. Deji Sasegbon and Professor Yemi Osibajo among others.
Oyinlola was represented by more than 70 lawyers led by Mr. Yussuf Alli (SAN), Tayo Oyetibo(SAN), Kunle Kalejaye(SAN), Bolaji Ayorinde(SAN), Nathaniel Oke(SAN) among others.
UNQUOTE

 
Bolaji Aluko

 
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:48 PM, elombah daniel <elsdaniel@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks very much: Please note that it is not my intention to be a kill-joy here...

Mine was a simple enquiry, I wrote: "While we are at it. I thought Engr Raufu Aregbesola was once accused of forging the police report to support his evidence. Can someone pls confirm the status of the accusation". 

This was followed by a the link to a Compass Newspaper story where: "Aregbesola instituted a N20 billion fundamental human rights enforcement suit against the police and the state government after he was accused by the immediate past Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mike Okiro, of forging a security report to prosecute his case at the election petitions tribunal in Osun State".

Aregbesola had sued the IGP, the Osun State Commissioner of Police, the Justice Minister and Attorney-General of the Federation, the state government, its Attorney-General and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, seeking an order restraining the police from arresting him, claiming infringement of his fundamental human rights to freedom as guaranteed under Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution.

Dismissing the case, Justice Ajakaiye, held that the fear of an arrest in respect of an investigation concerning an offence could not be said to be a violation of Aregbesola's fundamental human rights. The court further said that the constitution and the Police Act empowered the police to invite, or arrest anyone alleged to have committed any offence.

In view of the above, Aregbesola stands accused of forging a security report to prosecute his case at the election petitions tribunal in Osun State. Therefore, right thinking members of the public would like to know whether Aregbesola obtained todays' favorable court judgement based on forged documents.

I personally would be happy to learn this is not the case!

 
Daniel Elombah
Publisher:
www.elombah.com
(A Nigerian Perspective on world affairs)

 



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OK Daniel;
 
Look at it this way. Are you saying that the appeal court upturned Oyinlola's election baed on forged evdence?
 
Or is it a case of forgery on the part of Aregbesola which was not tabled before the court?
 
I am just wondering in which context  you want your observation situated.

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Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: On the Little Matter of Aregbesola's Forgery Case-STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!

 
NO! Adebayo Adejuwon,

That simple observation should not be ignored! I'd have ignored your comment if you had said, "Ignore Daniel Elombah"....Yes, ignore me but don't ignore my words.
You see, that is the beauty of being non-partisan, Because we stand above the fray, we are able to call it as it is...like Lord Denning's impartial Judge, we don't descend 'into the arena lest our vision be clouded by the dust of conflict'.

Yes, we are happy that the injustice committed by the PDP has been corrected in Osun State, but those who are truly OSUN DEFENDERS should also watch out, lest the wheels of justice be clogged by the criminal act of forgery.
How could you be sure but that the guy that forged documents to win election victory at the courts would also not forge documents to loot the state treasury.
 
Daniel Elombah
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(A Nigerian Perspective on world affairs)

 



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Subject: [NaijaElections] Re: [OmoOdua] On the Little Matter of Aregbesola's Forgery Case {Re: [Naijaintellects] Re: STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!

 
So as far as you know, Aregbesola is as bad as Oyinlola?.....Prof Aluko
 
Prof:
 
I do not se why Elombah Daniel's comment on  Aregbesola's vedict should not have been ingnored.
 
What I think is important is for all sons and daughters of Odua without excluding our cousins in Edo,Kogi and Kwara to start reflecting on the events of 1999,2003 and 2007, a period when the most notorious bastard  and political megalomaniac ever in Yoruba land in person of Mathew Olusegun Okikiolapo Obasanjo, in company of some gready and blindly ambitious ones among us,also in collaboration with their co-conspirators from other sections of the country started the process of undoing what AWO and his colleages intiatiated from 1951.
 
That Lagos, Ekiti,Osun, Edo and Ondo are no longer in the hands of Ebora Owu's PDP is nothing but the doing of the lord and the doggedness of Bola Ahmed Tinubu(BAT).
 
 I imagine that the name BAT may not be what some of my beloved brothers and sisters may want to hear, and maybe, for good reasons. But, if the truth must be told, if BAT had slept with his two eyes closed, just like his other AD governor colleagues and the Afenifere chiefatins did, I am not sure we will have cause to be rejoicing on the verdict of Osun today.
 
While I congratulate ACN and BAT and all lovers of justice and fairness on Aregbesola's victory, I will hasten to add that this is just the beginning of vigilance. Why this?
 
 My reason is very simple. Available evidence confirms that all the brood of vipers in the southwest PDP are the desperate mainstreamers from the fold of Afenifere/AD who are nothing but fair weather politicians and  political merceneries who, seeing the handwriting on the walls in the southwest, will start crawling back into ACN. We know them. They may be governors and they may be legislators. They may even be some SSAs or rented cyber merchancts  or in some instances, they may be some misguided Afenifere chieftains who sold their bithrights to PDP because of filthy lucres.
 
They must be identified and kept at bay in the emerging scenerio if we are not to be back in the abyss too soon.They are serpents and they are poisnous. They are progressives when it is convenient to say so but in reality, they are opportunists and political harlots. They may be old and they may be young. Their trademark is greed and theiry symbol is synchophancy.
 
Yes, ACN has done well in reversing the gains of PDP/OBJ in Yoruba land. What this tells us is that OBJ and PDP never won in the Southwest in the first instance. This being so,my take is that every resources, I mean every legitimate resources must be deloyed to put a terminal stop to the reign of PDP in both Ogun and Oyo states come 2011.
 
The above notwithstanding, ACN and BAT must, at this moment, do some soul seraching. Not doing so will ultimately be counterproductive. The Yoruba are true lovers of democracy no doubt and will be willing to tow the part of democracy any time any day. What should not be ignored is that Yoruba are not a people to be bought over with money in all cases. Yes, and truly so, a few of us have sold us into slavery on account of money, these few do not, and I stand to be corrected, respresent the generality of our people.
 
Consequently therefore, I will challenge BAT and the leadership of Afenifere on whether or not  the effort of regaining all the southwest states is about welfare of the people or the promotion of the ambition of an individual in the person of Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Also, the people of southwest will rather that ACN becomes a clear and distict alternative different from PDP. At this point, it is hard to say so and what this translate to in practical terms is that for ACN to truly represent the wishes and aspiration of the people of southwest, it  must commence a comprehensive process of transforming into a party of the people by the people set out to promote the ideals of AG,UPN and AD.
 
As presently constituted, ACN is not perceived as such by majority of our people even as they delight in the achievements of ACN.The general perception is that ACN is the personal property of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
 
And this is where BAT and his former AD colleages namely Niyi Adebayo, Segun Osoba, Lam Adesina, Pa.Akande must come clean with actions and operational strategies which will truly and sincerely debunk this perception that ACN may not be anything other than the personal property of Bola Ahmed Tinubu with headquaters at Boudillon Road, Ikoyi with Lagos State government as sole finacier.
 
I do not expect any response in the affirmative on this by ACN or from ACN apologists. What I am suggesting is that this impression must be erased if ACN wants to be taken serious as a better party which the people of southwest must commit their political future.
 
The people of southwest are waiting to have PDP replaced in Agodi and Oke Mosan in 2011. And I am sure they are not looking elsewhere other than the direction of ACN. But, our people are not prepared to exit from the den of PDP into BAT den. It is for this reason that ACN must commence the process of transforming into a real political party where transparancy and internal democracy is the rule and not  an exception.
 
For in the immediate future, not many days away, our people, in an attempt to take political stand at both regional and central levels, and as the necessity to embcrace a Coaltion of Alternative Parties(COAP) to dislodge PDP from Aso Rock begins,one major consideration will be whether or not ACN truly represent the true alternative.



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Subject: Re: [OmoOdua] On the Little Matter of Aregbesola's Forgery Case {Re: [Naijaintellects] Re: STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!

 
Broda mi Diipo Famakinwa, Komolafe, Eric Ayool ati in-law wa Gen. Afis....a ku orire oni o. God bless our new Governor in Osun State. God bless Ijesaland.
Akinyemi
Chicago.

On Fri Nov 26th, 2010 11:50 AM EST Mobolaji ALUKO wrote:

>Elombah Daniel:
>
>So as far as you know, Aregbesola is as bad as Oyinlola?
>
>Wonders will never cease....
>
>Oh well, on a more serious note, Aregbesola's immunity will commence
>tomorrow, I believe, November 27, 2010, courtesy of the 1999 Constitution.
>The full trial of the case that you mentioned was supposed to start on
>November 29, 2010.
>
>So while late Fawehinmi won a continuation of investigation case under
>immunity, the case in court that you mentioned can return in full force only
>after four - or possibly eight - years of Rauf Aregbesola as Governor of
>Osun State.
>
>Talk of being saved by the judicial bell in this case! :-)
>
>I can assure you that there was some trump-up-ed-ness in the accusation -
>but I ain't the judge in the case - and no one has contacted me by
>text-messaging.
>
>And there you have it.
>
>
>
>Bolaji Aluko
>Shaking his head
>
>
>http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69754:forgery-police-line-up-witnesses-against-aregbesola&catid=43:news&Itemid=799
> Forgery: Police line up witnesses against Aregbesola
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>
>Joshua Dada, Osogbo
>
>SIX key witnesses have been lined up by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) for
>the trial of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in
>Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, and one of his lawyers over an alleged forgery
>of a police document. The full trial starts on November 29, 2010.
>
>The prosecution witnesses include judicial workers and police officers who
>have all filed their statements on oath at the registry of the Federal
>Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja.
>
>The judicial officers are those who had, at various points, been in custody
>of the fake document in the course of their official engagements at the
>tribunal of first instance and at the Court of Appeal.
>
>It was gathered that police authorities are not taking the case with levity
>going by the fact that those who forged the document alleged that it
>emanated from the office of the Inspector-General of Police.
>
>The Security Report, allegedly written by the police, was one of the fulcrum
>upon which the Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan on March 30, 2009, ordered
>for a re-trial of the election petition because it was rejected by the
>tribunal.
>
>After the Appeal Court judgement, Oyinlola, in a letter with reference No
>EG/OS/ABJ/123 dated April 1, 2009, to the then Inspector-General of Police,
>Mr Mike Okiro, sought the release of the author of the report to give
>evidence whenever the retrial started.
>
>However, Okiro, in a reply to the letter, said that “the purported Final
>Security Report did not emanate from ‘B’ Department (Operations) of the
>Nigeria Police Force.�
>
>According to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), the security report,
>which the AC candidate submitted as evidence, was a fake document as the
>purported police officer who signed the document was not a member of the
>Nigeria Police Force.
>
>The IGP, while stating five reasons why the report was fake, said: “The
>report is fake as it does not reflect the style of police intelligence
>report. The letter head used by the author is forged, the reference No
>CL2341 reflected on the report does not exist in Nigeria Police Policy
>files. CSP Ahmed Mohammed, who signed the report and DSP Odiga Ame. J, who
>purportedly certified the report, are not members of the Nigeria Police
>Force.�
>
>Okiro continued: “In this regard, therefore, I am not in a position to
>oblige the appearance of the author at the tribunal when the retrial comes
>up.�
>
>In October, 2007, Aregbesola’s counsel, Mr. Kola Awodein (SAN), had prayed
>the tribunal to issue a subpoena to bring Mohammed, the author of the
>report, to tender it before the tribunal.
>
>The subpoena was issued but up till May 15, 2008 when Awodein himself
>tendered the report before the tribunal, the said author was not brought to
>the tribunal by the AC.
>
>Before the fake police report was tendered at the Justice Thomas Naron-led
>tribunal by Aregbesola’s lawyer, it was first published by the AC in the
>March 10, 2008, edition of The News Magazine and on Page 30 of The Nation
>edition of Monday, June 23, 2008, respectively.
>
>
>On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, elombah daniel <elsdaniel@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> While we are at it. I thought Engr Raufu Aregbesola was once accused of
>> forging the police report to support his evidence. Can someone pls confirm
>> the status of the accusation. #There's no difference between 6 and half a
>> dozen
>> Osun forgery scam: Aregbesola loses case against police, others<http://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24561:osun-forgery-scam-aregbesola-loses-case-against-police-others&catid=43:news&Itemid=799> -
>> Compass
>> EFFORTS by the Osun State governorship candidate of the Action Congress
>> (AC) in the 2007 elections, Rauf Aregbesola, to stop the police from
>> inviting him... for questioning over the alleged forgery of a police report,
>> failed yesterday.
>> A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, dismissed his suit.
>> Justice Akinjide Ajakaiye said he could not bar the police from performing
>> their constitutional duties of arresting or investigating a suspect.
>> Aregbesola had instituted a N20 billion fundamental human rights
>> enforcement suit against the police and the state government after he was
>> accused by the immediate past Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mike Okiro,
>> of forging a security report to prosecute his case at the election petitions
>> tribunal in Osun State.
>> Dismissing the case, Justice Ajakaiye, however, warned that Aregbesola must
>> not be impeded from prosecuting his petition against the victory of Governor
>> Olagunsoye Oyinlola at the tribunal sitting in Osogbo, the state capital.
>> He further held that the fear of an arrest in respect of an investigation
>> concerning an offence could not be said to be a violation of Aregbesola’s
>> fundamental human rights.
>> The court further said that the constitution and the Police Act empowered
>> the police to invite, or arrest anyone alleged to have committed any
>> offence.
>> “It is my view that it is within the powers of the police to so invite the
>> applicant, if they so wish to invite him for questioning, in respect of an
>> alleged crime. The provision of the law governing the alleged offence must
>> be adhered to in carrying out the investigation,� Justice Ajakaiye ruled.
>> Aregbesola had sued the IGP, the Osun State Commissioner of Police, the
>> Justice Minister and Attorney-General of the Federation, the state
>> government, its Attorney-General and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
>> claiming infringement of his fundamental human rights to freedom as
>> guaranteed under Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution.
>> Apart from seeking an order restraining the police from arresting him,
>> Aregbesola is also seeking an order of the court to restrain the Osun State
>> Government from arresting him in connection with the bomb blast that rocked
>> the State Secretariat Complex, Abeere on July 14, 2007.
>> While arguing the matter in court, counsel to the applicant, Deji Sasegbon
>> (SAN), maintained that the suit was informed by the various publications
>> where the respondents threatened to arrest his client over the alleged
>> forged police document.
>> He further contended that the counter-affidavit of the respondents was
>> predicated on the 2008 Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules.
>> The counsel also argued that the respondents came under the wrong rules,
>> insisting that the only Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement Rules in the
>> country was that of 1979.
>> Sasegbon said that the first, third and sixth respondents (the IGP, the
>> Justice Minister and the Lagos State Police Commissioner) admitted all the
>> facts in the application by not filing any processes to challenge the suit.
>> He argued further that the counsel, who represented the Osun State
>> Government, the state Police Commissioner and the Attorney-General did not
>> make an appearance for all the respondents.
>> Replying, the respondents’ counsel, Nathaniel Oke (SAN), said, even if an
>> application was brought under the wrong law, the court was entitled to look
>> into the merit of the application.
>> He contended that Aregbesola’s suit was a pure abuse of court process on
>> the ground that the applicant neither enjoys constitutional, or statutory
>> immunity against arrest by the police for the purpose of being interrogated
>> in respect of an alleged crime.
>> According to Oke, if everybody alleged to have committed an offence would
>> run to the court to stop investigation by the law enforcement agencies, then
>> the country is in serious trouble.
>> He urged the court not to cripple the powers conferred on the police by the
>> constitution in inviting the applicant, and appealed to the judge to dismiss
>> the application with substantial cost.
>>
>> Daniel Elombah
>> Publisher: www.elombah.com
>> (A Nigerian Perspective on world affairs)
>> ------------------------------
>> **
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com>
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>> *Sent:* Fri, November 26, 2010 3:51:59 PM
>> *Subject:* [Naijaintellects] STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new
>> Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!
>>
>>
>> [image: image]
>>
>> *OSUN STATE GOVERNOR ELECT, ENGINEER RAUF AREGBESOLA.*
>>
>> **
>>
>> *Press Release from the Office of the Governor of Ekiti State
>> *Jubilation And Skirmishes As Rauf Aregbesola Declared Governor of Osun
>> State; Supreme Court Gives Corrupt Ruling On Sokoto
>> *Osun Judgement Strikes Final Blow To Election Riggers - ACN
>> *Aluko Commentary
>> *From the Archives: Kalejaye gate Is An Albatross On Oyinlola’s Neck - by
>> Gbenga Fayemiwo
>>
>>
>>
>> QUOTE
>>
>> The ballot papers are in the following categories:
>>
>> a. 41 per cent of the 224,695 ballot papers used to declare Governor
>> Oyinlola as winner by INEC were product of incontestable multiple
>> thumb-printing;
>>
>> b. Ballot papers meant for Ondo State not only questionably found their
>> ways into Osun State but were indeed part of the 426,669 votes credited for
>> the stolen Governor of Osun State;
>>
>> c. 113,311 ballot papers used to declare Oyinlola by INEC in 10 Local
>> Governments were not supplied by INEC on the Schedule of Distribution of
>> Ballot Papers (Form EC40c/EC25) it released officially. They were completely
>> alien to Osun State;
>>
>> d. 88,092 ballot papers used to declare Oyinlola were those obtained from
>> split ballot papers used in clear contravention of the Electoral Law, 2006;
>>
>> e. The forensic examination also revealed that 117,439 ballot papers from
>> the 10 Local Governments that we are challenging were product of ballot box
>> stuffing;
>>
>> f. Why was Kalejaye, the lead Counsel to Governor Oyinlola calling the
>> Chairman of the Tribunal and other panel members in clear violation of the
>> law?
>>
>> UNQUOTE
>>
>> Haba!
>>
>> __________________________________________________________
>>
>> Press Release from the Office of the Governor of Ekiti State
>>
>> Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has reacted to the victory of
>> Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State at the court of Appeal, Ibadan, Oyo
>> State.
>>
>> In a statement by Wole Olujobi SSA (Speech and Public Communications to the
>> Governor) the Governor said the victory of Governor Aregbesola is a victory
>> for democracy and rule of law.
>>
>> "It is a victory for tenacity and perseverance of the people of Osun State.
>> Once again, the judiciary has displayed an uncommon courage that it is the
>> rule of law that governs this country and not the rule of men
>>
>> "The judiciary has shown the world again that Nigeria is a country where
>> premium is placed on the rule of law as a principle that governs our conduct
>> and businesses of government.
>>
>> "This victory is for all Nigerians who believe in and cherish justice. it
>> is on victory that has implications for the way we conduct ourselves in
>> electoral process in this country. it is also a victory for one man one vote
>> as a pillar of electoral contest."
>>
>>
>> Wole Olujobi
>> SSA (Speech and Public Communication to the Governor).
>>
>> __________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>> http://saharareporters.com/news-page/jubilation-and-skirmishes-rauf-aregbesola-declared-governor-osun-state-supreme-court-gives
>> Jubilation And Skirmishes As Rauf Aregbesola Declared Governor of Osun
>> State; Supreme Court Gives Corrupt Ruling On Sokoto
>> Posted: November 26, 2010 - 14:21
>> Posted by siteadmin
>>
>> By SaharaReporters, New York
>>
>> Jubilation has broken out in the Osun State capital of Osogbo and
>> throughout the state seconds after an electoral appeal tribunal sitting in
>> Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, declared Rauf Aregbesola as the legitimate
>> winner of the 2007 gubernatorial election in Osun.
>>
>> There were also reports of skirmishes between supporters of Rauf
>> Aregbesola and those of deposed PDP governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, in Ikirun
>> and parts of Ile-Ife.
>>
>> The panel ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue a
>> certificate to Mr. Aregbesola as the duly elected governor. Declaring
>> current Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the PDP as an impostor, the
>> appellate tribunal ordered his immediate vacation of office.
>>
>> “It’s a glorious day for the judiciary,� exclaimed a lawyer who was in the
>> court premises in Ibadan. As the lawyer spoke to Saharareporters, his voice
>> was nearly drowned out by the songs and ululations of a crowd in the
>> background.
>>
>> Mr. Oyinlola’s removal marks another major setback for the PDP and former
>> President Olusegun Obasanjo who in 2007 orchestrated one of the most
>> shocking electoral hijacks in Nigeria’s history.
>>
>> Mr. Aregbesola will now serve for four years as governor of Osun.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the Nigerian Supreme Court brought shame on itself and tainted
>> the image of the judiciary with its ruling on an appeal before it over the
>> planned ruling of the Court of Appeal deciding the governorship election in
>> Sokoto State.
>>
>> The apex court ruled that the appellate tribunal could not proceed with
>> handing down its verdict in the case.
>>
>> Saharareporters had documented how incumbent Governor Wamakko of Sokoto and
>> his lawyers had induced Chief Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu to intervene in
>> the case in order to save Mr. Wamakko’s fraudulently acquired post.
>>
>> The Supreme Court’s ruling drew instant condemnation from lawyers. One
>> lawyer told Saharareporters that the apex court’s judgment, which struck out
>> a case in the Court of Appeal where a final ruling had not been rendered,
>> “was a first in the history of the judiciary in this country.� Another
>> lawyer described the court’s ruling as “the worst form of judicial rascality
>> by justices of the Supreme Court that I have ever seen.� Yet another lawyer,
>> a senior advocate, said, “The Supreme Court’s ruling amounts to abortion of
>> a full term pregnancy,� adding, “it is judicial murder.�
>>
>> __________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>> http://thewillnigeria.com/politics/6695-Osun-Judgement-Strikes-Final-Blow-Election-Riggers---ACN.html Osun
>> Judgement Strikes Final Blow To Election Riggers - ACNSAINT MUGAGA<http://thewillnigeria.com/politics/author/THEWILL/> 26/11/2010
>> 05:58:00
>>
>> *PHOTO: OSUN STATE GOVERNOR ELECT, ENGINEER RAUF AREGBESOLA.*
>>
>> ABUJA, Nov 26, (THEWILL) - The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) today said
>> the judgement of the Court of Appeal on the Osun gubernatorial election has
>> struck a final, deadly blow against election riggers, who must now be
>> consigned into where they belong - the dustbin of history.
>>
>> In a statement issued in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji
>> Lai Mohammed, the party said its victory is particularly sweet music for all
>> democrats, who have continued to fight to wrest Nigeria from the deadly
>> cabal of election riggers, who have made Osun state their base.
>>
>> ''Osun, under the grip of the electoral marauders, became a euphemism for
>> election rigging with bravado. Even with a questionable mandate, they
>> carried on as if they were indeed elected by the people of the state. Osun
>> lost more people to the 2007 elections than any other state. Dislodging the
>> marauders, therefore, is a succour of sorts to the families of those who
>> were killed in the process of what will rank among the worst cases of
>> electoral brigandage in our country's history.
>>
>> ''We also recall that the marauders in Osun provided the men and material
>> for the rigging of the gubernatorial re-run in Ekiti.
>>
>> “At a stage, they even resorted to the use of police helicopter to ferry
>> their generals and their arsenals to Ekiti to further terrorize the people
>> of the state.
>>
>> ''Now, the forces of evil and darkness have finally lost their grip. It is
>> a good opportunity for Nigerians to use the chance presented by next year's
>> general elections to send the marauders cascading down the bottomless pit of
>> shame and oblivion,'' it said.
>>
>> ACN thanked the judiciary for putting an end to the long-running case on
>> electoral brigandage in Osun, and for once again giving hope to Nigerians
>> who, at times, wondered whether the forces of evil can be defeated, due to
>> their sheer bravado.
>>
>> ''Nigerians should now know that even if a lie travels at the speed of
>> sound for one thousand years, truth will eventually catch up with it. This
>> is a lesson for them never to give up in the pursuit of justice, as long as
>> they believe their cause is just. It is also a great confirmation that our
>> country, Nigeria, is indeed redeemable and can indeed be extricated from the
>> stranglehold of the rapacious cabal of election riggers.
>>
>> ''We know that at a stage during the battle to regain our mandate, many
>> questioned the rationale of expending so much time, energy and resources on
>> what they considered a lost cause. But our victory today has proved that no
>> amount of money is too much to spend in the pursuit of justice,'' the party
>> said.
>>
>> It also commended the media for keeping the issue on the front burner, long
>> after many have become weary from the antics of the marauders, and to all
>> Nigerians for their moral support.
>>
>> ''In particular we thank our supporters, who waited patiently for this day.
>> They remained unwavering, even after being subjected to the worst form of
>> persecution and provocation. We salute them!,'' ACN said.
>>
>> The party congratulated the good people of Osun, who will now have the
>> opportunity, like their counterparts in the other states where ACN holds
>> sway, to enjoy the long-awaited dividends of democracy.
>>
>> __________________________________________________________
>>
>> *ALUKO COMMENTARY*
>>
>> Today, Friday November 26, 2011 is another gloriously blessed day in the
>> annals of Nigeria, South-West Yorubaland and its immediate neighborhood,
>> and for the ACN and its progressive sister Labour! With the unperturbed
>> Lagos, we now have Ondo, Edo, Ekiti and Osun in progressive, with Delta to
>> be resolved later in February 2011, Oyo and Ogun will be picked up in April
>> 2011. Before you know it, the fever will jump across the Niger and the
>> Benue - and a New Nigeria will be born, led by Western and Mid-Western
>> Nigeria of the Great Awo, to the utter chagrin of Obasanjo!
>>
>> Yes o!
>>
>> This verdict was long coming. In fact, since the disclosure of the
>> outrageous sub-rosa inside-court text-messaging between a judge Justice
>> Thomas Damar Naron (and possibly other members of the tribunal) and
>> Oyinlola's lawyer Kunle Kalejaiye (SAN), one wondered what else was left to
>> the tattered case of Oyinlola.
>>
>> In recent months, the body language of Oyinlola also exhibited an "I don't
>> care" attitude, with his golfing expeditions to South America and so on.
>>
>> Finally, this will put an end with immediate effect to the 2011
>> gubernatorial ambitions of Senator Iyiola Omisore. That matter alone will
>> bring instant relief more to millions of PDP folk who have dreaded their
>> inability to save the inevitability of his candidacy (apparently with royal
>> blessing) in the forthcoming elections, than to the millions of others of
>> silent Osun indigenes who had also been dreading the Omisore political
>> machine.
>>
>> That machine has now stuttered to a stop under judicial hammer.
>>
>> Congratulations, fellow Engineer Rauf Aregbesola, new Governor of Osun
>> State! Seeing ya' at Oke-Fia Government House, Osogbo soon and in the
>> forthcoming four years!
>>
>> And there you have it.
>>
>>
>> Bolaji Aluko
>> Definitely Elated
>>
>>
>> __________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> FROM THE ARCHIVES
>>
>> http://www.osundefender.org/?p=92
>> Kalejaye gate Is An Albatross On Oyinlola’s Neck
>>
>> IT is surprising that in spite of the revelation of criminal manipulation
>> of the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal particularly the one headed by
>> the controversial Justice Thomas Damar Naron, allegedly carried out by
>> Otunba Kunle Kalejaye (SAN), Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola has neither shown
>> remorse nor repentance.
>>
>> The call logs of Governor Oyinlola, Kalejaye and Justice Thomas Naron
>> published by TheNews magazine last month are too revealing and damning to
>> the integrity of any administration. For Oyinlola to be pretending and
>> carrying on as if nothing happened shows that his conscience is either dead
>> or he lacks moral scruple to realise that the game is over for his inept
>> administration.
>>
>> In a twist of fate that Oyinlola is complaining that the Action Congress
>> (AC) petitioned against the sleaze he committed. The unavoidable
>> interpretation of Kalejayegate scandal leaves all rational thinkers with the
>> conclusion that it was after the Justice Naron was obviously compromised by
>> Oyinlola’s legal team towards the end of last year that it rejected our
>> application that the world renowned forensic expert, Mr. Adrian Forty be
>> allowed to testify and give evidence in support of the scanning of ballot
>> papers used for the last governorship poll.
>>
>> IT remained the pattern since the end of last year till the compromised
>> Tribunal refused to disqualify itself and ruled unjustly in favour of
>> Oyinlola against Rauf Aregbesola without considering the mountain of
>> evidence we presented before it.
>>
>> Governor Oyinlola should realise that it is no longer possible for him to
>> execute his agenda of compromising the judiciary as he did to that of
>> Justice Thomas Naron. As we await the Court of Appeal to decisively deliver
>> its verdict on the electoral malfeasance, vote robbery, murder of AC polling
>> agents by agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on April 14, 2007
>> elections day, we challenge Oyinlola to explain the source(s) of the
>> following ballot papers used by the Independent National Electoral
>> Commission (INEC) to rob Engineer Rauf Aregbesola of victory.
>>
>>
>> The ballot papers are in the following categories:
>>
>> a. 41 per cent of the 224,695 ballot papers used to declare Governor
>> Oyinlola as winner by INEC were product of incontestable multiple
>> thumb-printing;
>>
>> b. Ballot papers meant for Ondo State not only questionably found their
>> ways into Osun State but were indeed part of the 426,669 votes credited for
>> the stolen Governor of Osun State;
>>
>> c. 113,311 ballot papers used to declare Oyinlola by INEC in 10 Local
>> Governments were not supplied by INEC on the Schedule of Distribution of
>> Ballot Papers (Form EC40c/EC25 it release officially. They were completely
>> alien to Osun State;
>>
>> d. 88,092 ballot papers used to declare Oyinlola were those obtained from
>> split ballot papers used in clear contravention of the Electoral Law, 2006;
>>
>> e. The forensic examination also revealed that 117,439 ballot papers from
>> the 10 Local Governments that we are challenging were product of ballot box
>> stuffing;
>>
>> f. Why was Kalejaye, the lead Counsel to Governor Oyinlola calling the
>> Chairman of the Tribunal and other panel members in clear violation of the
>> law?
>>
>> OSUN Tribunal has been the only one all over the country to reject the
>> scientifically proven forensic evidence which it had earlier ordered to be
>> carried out. No one needs any soothsayer to deduce that a lot of water
>> passed under the bridge of the Tribunal when it became hostile to the course
>> of justice and waged a decisive war on evidence and facts.
>>
>> Has Governor Oyinlola forgotten that throughout the sittings of the Naron
>> Tribunal, his legal team objected to the subpoena issued on INEC to testify
>> on the elections it conducted? Once the subpoena was brought before the
>> Tribunal, Kalejaye and his comrades in judicial pervertion would object and
>> the Tribunal will rule in their favour.
>>
>> Kalejayegate scandal has established for posterity that when a Tribunal
>> hides under legal technicality to reject vital evidences as Justice Naron
>> has done in Osun State, the wheel of jurisprudence can no longer grind
>> towards the final point of justice.
>>
>> WHAT Governor Oyinlola secured on July 15, 2007 was judgement without
>> justice. Kalejayegate scandal has confirmed our suspicion that the Tribunal
>> was compromised and could not have been relied upon to do justice.
>>
>> Governor Oyinlola must stop laying claims to his blood-soaked mandate and
>> tell the whole world how he won his election in clear contravention of the
>> Nigerian laws and universally accepted democratic practices. The people of
>> Osun State voted for Rauf Aregbesola on April 14, 2007 as their Governor.
>> The impostor should stop complaining that the people of Osun State are
>> demanding justice which Oyinlola’s criminal car gifts have not been able to
>> avert.
>>
>> Equally, we must let the whole world know that our witnesses have testified
>> on how Governor Oyinlola personally snatched ballot boxes assisted by his
>> aides in Oyan town, Odo-Otin Local Government on April 14, 2007 in clear
>> violation of the Electoral Law, 2006 while his Commissioners including the
>> incumbent Attorney-General, Mr. Niyi Owolade led thugs to disrupt the poll.
>>
>> For Oyinlola to pretend and carry on as if all is well smacks of treason
>> and commission of crimes against humanity. He must be checked and stopped in
>> his track immediately. He must know that the Kalejayegate scandal; the
>> totality of which proves that Oyinlola lost the 2007 election woefully is an
>> albatross that cannot lead him to victory. He must prepare to face justice
>> that cannot be procured as he did at the Osun Tribunal.
>>
>> By *GBENGA FAYEMIWO*
>>
>> *
>> __________________________________________________________
>> *
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