It is being rumored that the proceeding at the Osun Election Petition Tribunal has indicated the likelihood of Osun state having a new chief executive in the next few weeks. The tribunal’s manual inspection and re-counting of ballot papers used for the election may have shown that over one hundred thousand invalid votes were dumped in favour of Governor Aregbesola in almost all the Local authorities in the state. Majority of these thumb printed ballot papers are from Ekiti state election in favour of Aregbesola (APC), were discovered in local government like Osogbo, Olorunda, Ejigbo, Ede North, Irewole, Ila-Orogun, Irepodun and others Aregbesola (APC) claimed he won. Tribunal adjourned sitting to 30th of October, 2014 with newly appointed Judges as members. Justice E.N. Ikpejime from Benue State will serve as chairman, Justice V.I Ofesi from Delta State and Justice Kutigi from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja are members. As things stand now Omisore secured more valid votes in the Osun state governorship election and according to Hope for Nigeria, if the new Tribunal members confirm the re-counted results, Osun state will surely be having a new governor in couple of weeks from now.
The genuineness of this story could not be determined at the time of going to the press.
Source: Seun Oloketuyi