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ONDO GUBER POLLS:Akeredolu wins at Supreme Court, Jegede’s Appeal dismissed.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the PDP and its candidate in the 2020 Ondo state Governorship Election Mr Eyitayo Jegede against the election of Rotimi Akeredolu as Governor of Ondo state.
The appeal split the Supreme Court justices with four out of the seven-member panel of justices of the court dismissing the appeal for failure to join Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni, as a party in the petition, while three of the justices held that the appeal be allowed.

Justices Odili, Ejembi Eko and Tijjani Abubakar, who dissented in their judgment, held that Buni, as an executive governor of a state, cannot act in the capacity of acting chairman of the APC.

They also held that the Yobe State governor acted in violation of Section 183 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

How ever in the Majority Judgment the Apex Court upheld that it is not in dispute that Governor of Yobe State Mai Mala Buni as the National Chairman of APC Caretaker Committee is in breach of section 183 of the constitution
The Court observed that Governor who was alleged to have breached the constitution ought to have been made a party in the petition to answer to the allegations.
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the lower court that the petition was incompetent.

Governor of Ondo State Mr oluwarotimi Akeredolu appraising the Supreme Court’s Verdict dedicated his Victory to God and commended the Judiciary and his legal team for doing justice to the Case.

The governor however called on the PDP candidate, Eyitayo Jegede to join him to develop and move Ondo state forward .
With this judgement, it is expected that all Contending issues about the Ondo state October 2020 Governorship Election have been laid to rest.