Dear All:
Read below - that the world may know:
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The trial of Aregbesola for forgery is nothing but a bogey woven by the PDP to victimize the man further despite the fact that they stole his mandate and used same for m ore than three years.................
The police report was released from the B Department of the office of the Inspector General to the legal team of Aregbesola as there were many sympathizers of the new governor in the police who were alarmed by the wicked atrocities perpetrated by the PDP during the election but could not act due to superior order. Aregbesola did not tender the police report himself. He did not procure the police report which was certified to be a true copy. When the report was tendered before the compromised Naron tribunal, all counsel to Oyinlola, kunle Kalejaiye inclusive, objected to the admissibility of the report on the ostensible ground that it was marked 'secret' and that it ought to enjoy state privilege. The then Attorney General of Osun State, Niyi Owolade, representing the police in the election petition, only maintained that the document was marked 'secret' and therefore was inadmissible in evidence. The tribunal, based on this ground of objection, rejected the document and marked it so.....
Out of fear that the police report might help the case of Aregbesola, Oyinlola petitioned the same IG who had neglected to investigate all the atrocities perpetrated by Oyinlola and his henchmen. The IG had barely received Oyinlola's petition when he came out with the finding that the report was forged and that there was no person like Ahmed Mohammed who signed the report in the police. Just a day after receiving Oyinlola's petition, the IG wrote back to Oyinlola disclaiming the police report as forged. Immediately, the police commenced the persecution of Aregbesola. Further revelations showed that Ahmed Mohammed exists in the police for the list of all officers promoted in 2007 contained the name of Ahmed Mohammed of B Department of the office of the Inspector General. Ahmed has not been able to come out since then as he lives under the fear of being exterminated should he act contrary to superior order....
I can tell the whole world authoritatively that the news report that the police have line up six witnesses against Aregbesola in the forgery case is a product of the imagination of the newspaper that made the report. The case is still at the level of the preliminary objection I filed that the case is an abuse of court process and till today, neither the police nor the Attorney General who took over the case later, has served me with any statement of a new witness. The preliminary objection is what is to be argued on November 29 and the full trial cannot begin on that day contrary to the suggestion raised below by Bolaji Aluko.....
- by Kunle Adegoke
Solicitor & Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
08023337003
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May Kunle Adegoke's tribe increase for laying it out plain! So a "secret" document suddenly becomes a "forged" document, and CSP Ahmed Mohammed and DSP Odinga Ame of B Department suddenly go missing from the Force - just like Ibori's Upper Usman Dam and Bwari court case when documents go missing!
One also wonders what the Senate - more than one year later - report of May 2009 sitting of a Senate Subcommittee says about this same palaver.
Nigeria is a wonderful place!
Bolaji Aluko, Esquare
SAM
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From: Kunle Adegoke <sultanadegoke@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [NaijaElections] Re: NigerianID | 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!
Kunle Adegoke
From: Kunle Adegoke <sultanadegoke@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [NaijaElections] Re: NigerianID | 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!
This is a debate worth contributing to.
The trial of Aregbesola for forgery is nothing but a bogey woven by the PDP to victimize the man further despite the fact that they stole his mandate and used same for m ore than three years. It can only happen in Nigeria and thanks to the judiciary that has put a stop to the entire show of idiocy.
It is on record that after all the atrocities perpetrated by Oyinlola and his thugs on April 14, 2007, the police had its report of all that transpired during the election. The question to ask is where is the police report of that day. The Action Congress petitioned the office of the Inspector General of Police to investigate all the killings perpetrated by the PDP on the day of the election but the IG never replied the petition and neither did he order any investigation into the dastardly acts. Twice, petitions were sent to the IG (Sunday Ehindero) but he abdicated his responsibility simply because the culprit, Oyinlola, was a PDP governor.
The police report was released from the B Department of the office of the Inspector General to the legal team of Aregbesola as there were many sympathizers of the new governor in the police who were alarmed by the wicked atrocities perpetrated by the PDP during the election but could not act due to superior order. Aregbesola did not tender the police report himself. He did not procure the police report which was certified to be a true copy. When the report was tendered before the compromised Naron tribunal, all counsel to Oyinlola, kunle Kalejaiye inclusive, objected to the admissibility of the report on the ostensible ground that it was marked 'secret' and that it ought to enjoy state privilege. The then Attorney General of Osun State, Niyi Owolade, representing the police in the election petition, only maintained that the document was marked 'secret' and therefore was inadmissible in evidence. The tribunal, based on this ground of objection, rejected the document and marked it so.
As the Court of Appeal presided over by Justice Omage ordered a retrial of the petition on the ground that the Naron Tribunal was heavily compromised and did not do justice in the case as all the documents tendered by the petitioners were rejected by the kangaroo tribunal of Naron. The court of Appeal deprecated Naron and his tribunal for its judgment skewed to favour the PDP. The Court of Appeal held that the tribunal ought to have admitted all the documents tendered by the petitioner as all were certified true copies of public documents and that the ground for rejecting the police report in particular, was unknown to law.
Out of fear that the police report might help the case of Aregbesola, Oyinlola petitioned the same IG who had neglected to investigate all the atrocities perpetrated by Oyinlola and his henchmen. The IG had barely received Oyinlola's petition when he came out with the finding that the report was forged and that there was no person like Ahmed Mohammed who signed the report in the police. Just a day after receiving Oyinlola's petition, the IG wrote back to Oyinlola disclaiming the police report as forged. Immediately, the police commenced the persecution of Aregbesola. Further revelations showed that Ahmed Mohammed exists in the police for the list of all officers promoted in 2007 contained the name of Ahmed Mohammed of B Department of the office of the Inspector General. Ahmed has not been able to come out since then as he lives under the fear of being exterminated should he act contrary to superior order.
The next question is what is the nature of evidence lined up against Aregbesola and his lawyer, Olayinka Okedara? The two witnesses prepared by the police are Kunle Kalejaiye and Niyi Owolade. Kunle Kalejaiye is the lawyer to Oyinlola alleged to have been in secret communications with Thomas Naron while the tribunal was sitting. The call logs released by MTN Nigeria Communications Limited makes a complete and irrefutable case against Kalejaiye and Naron. Recently, the NBA released its report indicting Kunle Kalejaiye over the issue. The second witness, Niyi Owolade, was the Attorney General under Oyinlola. Their statements to the police were simply to the effect that Okedara announced that the petitioner intended to call the police officer who prepared the report to come and tender it but failed to have the said police officer in court and that Kola Awodehin SAN tendered the document.
I can tell the whole world authoritatively that the news report that the police have line up six witnesses against Aregbesola in the forgery case is a product of the imagination of the newspaper that made the report. The case is still at the level of the preliminary objection I filed that the case is an abuse of court process and till today, neither the police nor the Attorney General who took over the case later, has served me with any statement of a new witness. The preliminary objection is what is to be argued on November 29 and the full trial cannot begin on that day contrary to the suggestion raised below by Bolaji Aluko. The report by Compass in the posting below is another manifestation of the desperation displayed by the PDP in the last one month shortly after the Court of Appeal's decision in Fayemi v. Oni which indicated that the decision in Aregbesola's case might go against the PDP. The fake news item was also released in Compass Newspaper after the NBA report indicting Kunle Kalejaiye came out in the papers. It was an attempt to divert the attention of the members of the public and traumatized them further by presenting an impression that the forgery case was actually real.
Behind all these efforts are Oyinlola who wanted to save his neck at all costs and Iyiola Omisore who wanted to be governor of Osun State by all means. Omisore knew that the only impediment to his governorship ambition is Aregbesola and no one else as he was to be the PDP's candidate in the 2011 election which is no longer possible now.
I want all not to be deceived. The credentials of Aregbesola right now elevate him above the likes of Oyinlola and the statement in one of the postings below that Aregbesola is as bad as Oyinlola is unfortunate. As Commissioner for Works in Lagos State under Tinubu, all the roads constructed by Aregbesola since 2002 - 2003 are still there solid. Go and see Kudirat Abiola Road in Oregun, Ikeja, and Obafemi Awolowo Road in Ikoyi and many others. The road recently commissioned by Fashola linking Okota with Itire was said to be the brain product of Aregbesola. Fashola himself said so at the commissioning event. How then do you compare Aregbesola to Oyinlola, Mr. No Bitumen who ruled Lagos for years without any achievement and again displayed his failure in Osun State for another seven and a half years? Go to Osun State and you would see the heavy failure Oyinlola made of the State.
Time will further show the difference between Aregbesola and the perpetual failure, Oyinlola. Just wait and see.
Kunle Adegoke
Solicitor & Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
08023337003
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Nigeria: Oyinlola, Aregbesola Take Battle to the Senate
Sufuyan Ojeifo
12 May 2009
Lagos — Last Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, under the chairmanship of Senator Gbenga Ogunniya, was very busy in one of the committee rooms in the new Senate building. The serious business was the "interrogation" of the chief interrogator himself, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro.
The committee had invited Okiro for an interactive session in respect of a petition lodged by the Osun State Governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola with the Senate. The petition, addressed to the Senate President, Senator David Mark, raised the critical allegation of forged security report in the April 14, 2007 Governorship and House of Assembly election in Osun State.
Oyinlola's letter to Mark dated April 16, 2009. said: "I wrote to the Inspector General of Police on April 1, 2009 to clarify the security report, whether the report came from the police. On April 8, he gave a reply that the report was fake one. It will be certainly in the interest of our democracy, public security, justice and the rule of law to get the culprit to face the full implications of the action. I urge the National Assembly to regard this as a matter of urgent national security importance and intervene."
Mark had promptly, on receipt of the petition, referred it to the Senate Committee on Police, since it concerned the police and the office of the Inspector General of Police. That Oyinlola wrote the petition was understandable. He is locked in a serious legal battle with his major opponent in the April 14, 2007 governorship election, Action Congress (AC) candidate, Mr Rauf Aregbesola.
It has been a long-drawn legal battle, which is an extension of the equally long-drawn political battle launched by Aregebesola to wrest the position of the state governor from Oyinlola who has been in the saddle since 2003.
The Court of Appeal had recently ordered that the petition be re heard (de novo) by a fresh panel. That was after the Justice Naron led Election Petition Tribunal had upheld the victory of Oyinlola. Aregbesola had appealed against the verdict.
But as it has become apparent that the machinery of the AC in the Southwest, which is being oiled by former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, is coordinating an operation to take over the zone from the grips of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Oyinlola has, as learnt, decided not to underestimate the opposition, especially against the background of the gritty battle they put up in a failed bid to wrest Ekiti State from the control of the PDP.
THISDAY gathered that the decision by Oyinlola to petition the Senate President on the issue of fake police report, which was marked Annexure "A" and rejected as exhibit by the first tribunal, was to provide the Police the opportunity of a public forum outside the court, to expose a fake report.
However, Oyinlola's move had paid off as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Gbenga Ogunniya, and a PDP Senator from Ondo State confirmed at the meeting that Oyinlola's petition was forwarded to the committee by the Senate President.
The Senate machine would appear to favour Oyinlola against the AC machine as Okiro's declaration before the committee, that the report was fake, had the expected domino effect.
He had told the Committee that the Police have launched a manhunt for the author of the phony "security report." He had also added another dimension: that the report was doctored by persons whom he said were not known to the Police. Accompanied by many senior police officers, he had told the committee thus: "On the first of April this year, I received a petition addressed to my office by the Governor of Osun State Prince Olagunsoye Oyinola. In that petition, he alleged that there was a report purportedly written by an officer from my office which was tendered in the tribunal "He requested that I should confirm the authenticity of the report and release the officer mentioned therein to appear before the court during the re-trial. I looked at the report and the report was purportedly issued by "B" Division that is operation. I immediately passed it to the DIG in charge of operation, Hamza Ahmadu to look into the files and confirm to me whether such a report actually came from his office.
"That was on the 1st of April, the same day that the letter was written. On the 8th of April, I got a response from the DIG. On the basis of the report, I wrote to Governor Oyinlola intimating him that the report was not from the Police." His letter to Oyinlola, with reference number SJ:1800/IGP.SEC/ ABJ/VOL.10/251 dated 8th April, 2009 was circulated to media men at the session.
The letter read thus: "I wish to inform Your Excellency that the purported final security report did not emanate from 'B' Department (Operations) of the Nigeria Police Force for the following reasons: the report is fake as it does not reflect the style of Police intelligence report; the letterhead used by the author is forged." He had specifically told the Committee that the authors of the report-CSP Ahmed Mohammed and DSP Odinga Ame, who purportedly issued the report as Assistant Principal Officer in the office of the DIG 'B' Department-were unknown to the Police.
Although, the Senate Committee had used the forum to take on Okiro on other issues, like efforts being made by the Police to curb the growing incidence of kidnapping, it was evident that the issue of the purported fake security report was the real essence of the meeting. It was publicized and dramatized for effect. And this, too, is understandable. Political gladiators in the Southwest are engaged in campaigns and propaganda to control the soul of the zone. And the battle has begun in earnest. Every weapon is being deployed.
Indeed, from all indications, it is going be witty and gritty. It will tax the resilience and reticence of all sides in the battle. But certainly, there will be winners and there will be losers. After the ouster of Dr. Olusegun Agagu as Ondo State Governor and the declaration by Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party (LP) as governor, Oyinlola would not want to take chances. He does not want to be a loser.
Recently, Governor Segun Oni reclaimed his governorship seat in Ekiti in spite of stratagem deployed by the AC to dislodge Oni but which was rendered fruitless by the huge PDP machine oiled from the centre.
In the meantime, the Ogunniya-led Senate Committee on Police, which is investigating the Oyinlola petition, is expected to write its report, based on its findings, and submit to the Senate. Significantly, the Committee members had done much of listening to Okiro as he made his submissions on Wednesday, last week. Now, what will be the shape, form and content of the committee report, especially after Okiro's declaration at the public interactive session that the security report did not emanate from the Police? Perhaps, now that the stage is set for a retrial of the election petition against Oyinlola, the calculation is that the report of the Senate, based on the declaration by Okiro, may serve the purpose of Oyinlola in his bid to knock the bottom off the initial security report that has now been dubbed as "fake." This, indeed, is the crux of the matter, going by the content of Oyinlola's petition to the Senate, through the Senate President.
In the letter, he had said in part, about the outcome of AC's appeal against his victory, thus: "This correspondence serves to notify and bring to you about a grave occurrence which borders on threats to the preservation of the cherished values of our democracy, public good and security; as well as the tenets of the rule of Law and the right political choice of the electorate guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
As you are most certainly aware, as you must have learnt through the media, a panel of the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on 30th March, 2009, delivered its judgment in the appeal brought against my victory at the governorship election tribunal in Osogbo on 15th July 2008, which validated my April 14th 2007 election as governor of Osun state.
"That panel of the Appeal Court in this judgment ordered a retrial of the petition by a different panel after it accused the trial tribunal of miscarriage of justice, especially, because it rejected a purported police report.
The lower tribunal rejected the document because, in its wisdom, the document did not pass the legal test of admissibility. The Appeal Tribunal in its judgment declared that the report ought not only to have been admitted; it significantly devoted almost two-thirds of the judgment to conferring credibility on report which the Presiding Justice Victor Omage, JCA, declared was "the observations of the police in the conduct of the elections in most of the twelve local governments being contested."
Indeed, time will tell what the recommendations of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs is and how the report will play out in the retrial of the petition-whether or not it will serve the intended purpose which Oyinlola wants to deploy it.
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Date: Friday, November 26, 2010, 8:57 AMRather sad response from Aluko. Very limited partisan thinking.The question is-What happens to the need to investigate the forgery charge against Aragbesola?Should our satisfaction over this victory lead us to forget the charge of dishonesty against the victor?thankstoyin
On 26 November 2010 16:50, Mobolaji ALUKO <alukome@gmail.com> 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 AlukoShaking his headhttp://www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69754:forgery-police-line-up-witnesses-against-aregbesola&catid=43:news&Itemid=799Forgery: Police line up witnesses against Aregbesola
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Share 0Joshua Dada, OsogboSIX 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 dozenOsun forgery scam: Aregbesola loses case against police, others - 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
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Subject: [Naijaintellects] STAR INFORMATION: Rauf Aregbesola is new Governor of Osun State; Oyinlola is Out, Says Appeal Court!
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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 FayemiwoQUOTEThe 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?UNQUOTEHaba!________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 OlujobiSSA (Speech and Public Communication to the Governor)._______________________________________________________________________________________________http://saharareporters.com/news-page/jubilation-and-skirmishes-rauf-aregbesola-declared-governor-osun-state-supreme-court-givesJubilation And Skirmishes As Rauf Aregbesola Declared Governor of Osun State; Supreme Court Gives Corrupt Ruling On Sokoto
Posted: November 26, 2010 - 14:21Posted by siteadminBy SaharaReporters, New YorkJubilation 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 - ACN
SAINT MUGAGA 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 COMMENTARYToday, 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 AlukoDefinitely Elated________________________________________________________________________________________________FROM THE ARCHIVESKalejaye 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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