The Supreme Court gave a finality to the dispute this morning in Abuja, ruling 5-2 in favour of Oyetola and against Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Justice Bode Rhodes Vivour read the majority judgment and declared that Oyetola was duly elected in the September 2018 election. Rhodes-Vivour held that the proceedings and judgment of the trial tribunal was a nullity on the grounds that Justice Peter Obiorah was absent in court on Feb. 6.
The two dissenting judges are Justice Kumai Akaah and Justice Paul Galinje. The election in September gave Oyetola, the narrowest victory ever in a governorship election in Nigeria. He defeated Adeleke with 255,505 votes, after a rerun election in some polling units on 27 September, where election did not take place in the first poll. Adeleke who had led with even a much narrower margin in the first poll on 22 September, scored 255,023 votes.
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