OSOGBO, the Osun State capital, was calm on Thursday, as the people await the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State, on the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the April 2007 election, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, against the declaration of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the election.
The people of the town, on Thursday, were going about their normal business, while the police maintained ignorance on the judgment.
However, there was anxiety among members of the PDP and the opposition party over the judgment, which would be decided by today.
Aregbesola had, for the past three and a half years, been in legal tussle with the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), the Inspector General of Police and others, over the conduct of the election and the declaration of Prince Oyinlola as the winner.
The national vice chairman of PDP in the South-West, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladipo, who said that the legal team of the party had done what it should to prove the case of the party at the court, said “we have put our case before God and before the justices of the court of appeal and we believe that justice will be done and will come to us.”
The court, led by Justice Clara Binta had, on Monday, November 1, reserved judgement on the case, after counsel for both parties adopted their briefs, with Oyinlola’s lead counsel, Mallam Yusuf Alli (SAN), who led eight other senior advocates to argue the case, insisting that the case of the appellants be dismissed on the ground that it had no basis in law.
Among other things, the judgment would determine whether or not there would be governorship election in the state in 2011.
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