Omisore vs Aregbesola, an abuse of court process. With the way the Omisore versus Aregbesolas case is going in the tribunal, where petitions were filed in the tribunal hours after the stipulated period and witnesses are begged to appear as scheduled in order not to delay proceedings, it can be deduced that this is another abuse of court process. At the last court hearing of this uninteresting and one-sided case, it was the turn of Omisores lawyer apologised after he misinformed the court that ballot papers were not fully inspected because of power failure, whereas they were fully inspected with the telephone light of those present to the satisfaction of every participant when there was power outage during the exercise. It will be recalled the drama at the Election Petition Tribunal that happened as a PDP witness from Oriade Local Government, Mr Oluwaseun Fapohunda, surprised the tribunal, when during cross examination he said that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola voted at his polling unit in Oriade Local Government. Aregbesola is from Ilesa in Ilesa East Local Government Area and voted in the pollin unit around his family house which was televised. Mr Fapohunda who claimed he voted in unit 14 , ward 3 of Oriade Local Government was asked to show the tribunal allegation of over-voting which he claimed was apparent in his witness statement on oath. He failed to do so even when he was obliged a reading glasses by the petitioners counsel, Barrister Kunle Adegoke. He also stated that he did not have any pictures of canopies erected in each of the polling units where APC members were winning and dinning against his sworn affidavit. It was another drama when one of the Omisores witnesses from Olorunda Local Government, Mr. Tiamiyu Akofe, denied ever seeing the duplicate copy of Form EC8A tendered by the legal team of Omisore through Bola Ajao as PW1. While being cross-examined by Oluwarotimi Akeredolu Esq, SAN as to the correctness of entries made in the said form, he denied ever coming in contact with the form as what he signed on that day was a green colour form as against pink coloured form EC8A. Another witness who claimed that people voted in his polling unit without acrreditation when Olujinmi Esq. SAN, cross-examined him and asked him whether he voted at the same unit. He answered to the affirmative. Olujinmi now put it to him that he voted without accreditation against INEC provisions. He denied voting without accreditation and said people were accredited before voting. The court asked for 15 minutes break and when it resumed, the whole Omisores witnesses ran away because they did not want to commit cotempt of court by lying. It was repeated phone calls that made some of them to come back to the tribunal.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 16:33:27 +0000
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