OSUN: Oyetola gets approval to serve Adeleke, notice of petition through substituted means

… on requests in petition filed against Adeleke

The All Progressives Congress, Adegboyega Oyetola, has been granted permission to serve Adeleke, the notice of the petition through substituted means.

The Election Petition Tribunal sitting on the petition by Oyetola also granted Oyetola the permission to scan the voters’ registers and ballot papers used for the July 16 election in Osun.

The tribunal at its maiden sitting on Monday presided over by the chairman of the panel, Justice Tertsea Kume, which also had Justice Benedict Ogbuli, granted the requests.

Counsel for Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Yomi Aliyu, had told the tribunal sitting that a bailiff given the task could not serve Adeleke notice of the petition.

Aliyu further explained that the person met at the entrance to the PDP’s candidate’s residence in Ede refused to take the document from the bailiff that went to serve him.

He also told the panel that he would prefer that the notice be pasted on the notice board at the entrance of the tribunal sitting venue.

Ruling on the two motions, Justice Kume granted the reliefs sought by Oyetola and ordered that the notice should be pasted on the notice board at the entrance to the venue of the tribunal sitting.

Justice Kume also granted the motion ex parte filed for an order for inspection of documents in the custody of the first respondent, the Independent National Electoral Commission.