Oyo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal yesterday in Ibadan admitted 27 more additional documents as exhibits in a petition filed by Senator Rashidi Ladoja of the Accord Party.
Recall that Ladoja is challenging the declaration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the April 11 gubernatorial election in the state.
The petitioner also joined the APC, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ambassador Rufus Akeju and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as corespondents.
At its sitting yesterday, the tribunal, headed by Justice Mohammed Mayaki, admitted additional 27 documents from three more local governments during the first session of the resumed hearing while during Tuesday's hearing, the tribunal had admitted 62 documents tendered by counsel to Ladoja, Chief Richard Ogunwole SAN, as exhibits.
As at the time of filing this report, a total number of 89 documents tendered by the petitioners’ counsel had been marked and admitted as exhibits by the tribunal.
The exhibits which were tendered by Ogunwole contained the reports of elections conducted in Itesiwaju, which was completed from Tuesday session, Oriire, Ogbomoso North and Ogbomoso South local government areas.
However, counsel to first and second respondents, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, and Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, respectively, said they would reserve their objections to the exhibits tendered till the stage of filing their final written addresses.
The reports tendered are chronological analysis of happenings during the election conducted by the lead witness in the petition, Mr. Bimbo Adepoju.