USA Africa Dialogue Series - STAR INFORMATION: Where and How the Rigging in Osun State Against Aregbesola Occurred - That the World May Know

 

MAP OF OSUN STATE

                                                                                    

 

 

The Aregbesola/Oyinlola Electoral Arithmetic:

 

 

April 14, 2007 Guber Election............Aregbesola....240,722........Oyinlola..............426,669...Oyinlola "wins"

Nov 26, 2010 Appeal..Subtract from...Aregbesola......41,923........Oyinlola..............253,789..fraud in 10 LGAs*

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To Get Final Tally.............................Aregbesola....198,799........Oyinlola..............172,880..Aregbesola wins!

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(1) Odo-Otin (Oyinlola's home LG), (2) Boripe, (3) Boluwaduro, (4) Ifedayo   (5) Atakumosa West; (6)  Ife Central (7)  Ife East; (8) Ife South  (9) Isokan (10) Ayedade

 

 

        OSUN STATE ADMINISTRATIVE STATISTICS

S/N	LGA	HQ	2006 Census Population	Area Sq km
1	Atakunmosa-East	Iperindo	76,197	238
2	Atakunmosa-West	Osu	68,643	577
3	Ayedade	Gbongan	150,392	1,113
4	Ayedire	Ile Ogbo	76,197	238
5	Boripe	Iragbiji	139,358	132
6	Boluwaduro	Otan-Aiyegbaju	70,775	144
7	Ede-North	Oja Timi Ede	83,831	111
8	Ede-South	Ede	76,035	219
9	Egbedore	Awo	74,435	270
10	Ejigbo	Ejigbo	132,641	373
11	Ifedayo	Oke-Ila	37,058	128
12	Ifelodun	Ikirun	96,748	114
13	Ife-North	Ipetumodu	153,694	889
14	Ife-Central	Ile-Ife	167,254	111
15	Ife-East	Oke-Ogbo	188,087	172
16	Ife-South	Ifetedo	135,338	730
17	Ila	Ila-Orangun	62,049	303
18	Ilesa-East	Iyemogun	103,555	63
19	Ilesa-West	Oja Oba (Ereja Square)	103,555	63
20	Irepodun	Ilobu	119,497	64
21	Irewole	Ikire	143,599	271
22	Isokan	Apomu	103,177	179
23	Iwo	Iwo	191,377	214
24	Obokun	Ibokun	116,511	527
25	Odo-Otin	Okuku	134,110	294
26	Ola-Oluwa	Bode Osi	76,593	328
27	Olorunda	Igbona	131,761	97
28	Orolu	Ifon	103,077	80
29	Osogbo	Osogbo (Oja Oba)	156,694	47
30	Oriade	Ijebu -Ijesa	148,617	465
		TOTAL	3,420,855	8,554

 

 

 

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In a unanimous decision, the five-man panel of justices led by Clara Ogunbiyi declared Aregbesola winner of the election with a total votes score of 198, 799 against the deposed governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 172, 880 votes.

The results were arrived at after the justices voided the polls result in 10 of the 30 local government councils in Osun state where cases of irregularities, over-voting and electoral malpractices were established.

The affected controversial councils, according to Justice Ogunbiyi who read the lead judgement are Atakumosa; Ayedade Boluwaduro, Boripe; Ife Central; Ife East; Ife South; Ifedayo; Isokan and Odo Otin.

While Aregbesola polled 41,923 votes in these local government councils, Oyinlola scored 253, 789 votes.

By the time the Presiding Justice deducted the voided votes from the overall votes of 240,722 and 426, 669 initially credited the ACN and PDP candidates by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Aregbesola was named the winner with the majority of higher lawful votes in the 2007 election.

 

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http://www.osundefender.org/?p=10750
No Legal Impediment To Declaration of Aregbesola as Osun Gubernatorial Winner

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...the evidence on record led by Aregbesola shows several cases of irregularities across the 10 Local Government to justify nullification of the election in the ten local governments. Among the evidence are:

• In Ife Central is the 9 out of 11 Form EC8B (Exhibit 97(1 – 11)) was signed by one Alhaji S.O.A. Nofiu a PDP chieftain.

• In Odo Otin Oyinlola's Local Government Exhibit 217 tendered by the Appellants and Exhibit R18 tendered by the Respondents which are the certified true copies of EC8A the primary results of election were blank, some were not signed nor stamped by the Presiding Officers as required by the Election Manual.

• In Isokan It was also established by the Appellants through the Respondents' witness in the person of Abioye Makinde (RW44), a commissioner in the cabinet of Oyinlola, that no credible election took place in the local government as was exposed by the witness who claimed to have signed the Local Government result for PDP only to be confronted with Exhibit 142, the EC8C, which is the same result he claimed to have signed but was discovered to have been signed by another person.

• In Boripe the situation was grim as there was no voters' registers produced by INEC for 7 wards out of 11 in the local government, also there were no EC8A produce for most of the wards in the Local government. Also it is in Boripe that PDP has a greater number of votes allocated to it on the EC8D (Exhibit 92(1)) with a figure of 14,497 above the total number of registered voters on the same Exhibit 92(1) which is 12,631 for the Local government.

• In Ife East, Ife South, Ayedaade as well as in other of the remaining 7 Local Government a great deal of discrepancies were discovered as ballot papers tendered and counted in the open court shows clear discrepancies cutting across wards in the 10 Local Government in contrast with the results recorded on available result sheets

The expert evidence were even grim as it was discovered that multiple thumb printing was done in favour of Oyinlola and even the expert called by Oyinlola gave contradictory evidence which clearly supports the nullification of result in the 10 Local Government Areas.

With the nullification of the unlawful votes in the 10 Local Governments it is clear that Engr. Rauf Aregbesola has majority of lawful votes cast in the remaining 20 Local Governments as well as fulfilled the Constitutional spread required having scored a quarter (1/4) of votes cast in 2/3 (two-third) of the LGA in Osun State.

The Court of Appeal in declaring Adams Oshiomole as lawfully elected governor of Edo State nullified elections in some Local Government and resorted to the remaining lawful votes to declare him the winner and in calculating the constitutional requirement the Court of Appeal dispensed with the nullified votes and calculated the constitutional requirement on the basis of the remaining lawful votes, however in Aregbesola's case, his chances is brighter having satisfied the constitutional spread required in the remaining 20 Local Government.

It appears that Mr Odanye a supposed Legal Practitioner cum politician is even ignorant of recent developments in electoral litigation as for instance the recent decision in the case of Great Ogboru v. Uduaghan where the Court of Appeal and the Tribunal nullified in all election in 14 out of the 25 local Governments in Delta State. The Court of Appeal, in nullifying the election, held at page 54 of the unreported judgment as follows:

"…Having expunged those exhibits and the photocopies of the temporary voters' cards in respect of the eleven Local Government Areas above, the implication is that the third respondent did not prove the conduct of elections in the said eleven Local Government Areas. The Tribunal had cancelled the results in three Local Government Areas where elections were inconclusive. That means that the non compliance affected fourteen out of twenty five local Government Areas in Delta State. In plain terms, the voters in these fourteen Local government Areas were disenfranchised because of the non compliance with the Act. This, in our view, amounted to substantial non-compliance that vitiated the entire exercise."

The Court of Appeal in the Uduaghan's case deprecated a situation which is similar to that of Oyinlola's occupation of the government house in Oke Fia when the Court of Appeal stated admirably in furtherance of the democratic aspiration of Nigeria in the judgment at page 54 as follows:

"…It is unfortunate that the law would permit this sort of anomalous situation: an unfortunate situation where a man who usurped the sacred mandate of the people would be allowed to fritter away their common patrimony without their due authorisation that should come through free and fair elections where the said electorate, in whom sovereignty resides in a democracy, are afforded the opportunity of exercising their franchise. It is arguable whether this state of affairs would be permitted to endure in other civilized jurisdiction!"

Rather than following the puerile mischief of Tunde Odanye and his cohorts one pray that the judiciary will summon the courage to declare Engr. Rauf Aregbesola the lawful winner of the most litigated election of April 14, 2007.

Signed
Mutiu Olaoye
Barrister & Solicitors of Nigeria
Lagos.

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http://www.osundefender.org/?p=92
Kalejaye gate Is An Albatross On Oyinlola's Neck

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.....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?

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by Gbenga Fayemiwo
 
 
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