Thanks for your below....your clarification is well appreciated.
May I use this opportunity to point out that my little poser is not original to
me...It was actually pointed out to me by one of my readers...so contrary to Mr
Bolaji Aluko's insinuation...mine was a GENUINE enquiry.
Now that the Appeal Court has reached their decision, let's see whether the
Police will continue with their investigation...after-all, forgery is still a
crime outside the electoral issues involved...Otherwise, the originators of the
forgery accusation should be prosecuted for perjury, libel, and/or obstructing
the course of justice
Daniel Elombah
Publisher: www.elombah.com
(A Nigerian Perspective on world affairs)
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Sent: Sat, November 27, 2010 3:48:23 AM
Subject: Re: NigerianID | 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!
Dear Elombah,
Thanks for the curiosity to know.
Due to the claims of Oyinlola that the police report was forged and the
subsequent prosecution in Abuja, Aregbesola did not use the police report in the
retrial of his petition before Garba tribunal. The police report was dropped by
us to show that the evidence before the court was more than enough to prove that
Aregbesola won the election in 2007. The decision of the Court of Appeal
yesterday was not based on any police report as it did not feature at all in the
entire case.
Please note further that the judgment of the Court of Appeal yesterday was based
on the oral and documentary evidence led across the ten local governments where
Oyinlola alone had more votes than the remaining twenty local governments
combined. The police report was not part of the documentary evidence.
Kunle Adegoke
Solicitor & Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
08023337003
Sent from my ipad
On Nov 26, 2010, at 10:48 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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From: Adebayo Adejuwon <adeadejuwon@yahoo.com>
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>OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
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>Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 9:23:03 PM
>Subject: [NaijaElections] Re: [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!
>
>
>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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From: elombah daniel <elsdaniel@yahoo.com>
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>naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
>Cc: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com;
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>Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 1:17:14 PM
>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
>Publisher: www.elombah.com
>(A Nigerian Perspective on world affairs)
>
>
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From: Adebayo Adejuwon <adeadejuwon@yahoo.com>
>To: OmoOdua@yahoogroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
>Cc: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com;
>naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com; ekitipanupo@yahoogroups.com;
>ekitipeoplesvoice@yahoogroups.com; naijaelections@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 6:19:15 PM
>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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From: Akinyemi Olusegun Fasakin <yemifash@yahoo.ca>
>To: omoodua@yahoogroups.com; naijaintellects@googlegroups.com
>Cc: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com;
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>Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 9:06:33 AM
>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
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