The Osun Election Petition Tribunal has fixed Friday, January 27, to deliver a verdict in the petition challenging Governor Ademola Adeleke’s victory in the July 16, 2022, governorship election.

The former governor of Osun, Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC), challenged the victory of Mr Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the election.

This is contained in a notice of hearing dated January 24, signed by the tribunal’s secretary, David Mike, in Osogbo on Tuesday.

The hearing notice said the judgement would be delivered by 9:00 a.m. on Friday.

The chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Tertsea Kume, had on January 14, reserved judgement for a later day to be communicated to parties.

This was after the petitioner and respondents had adopted their final written addresses in Osogbo, the state capital.

Mr Oyetola and the All Progressives Congress (APC) had on August 5 filed a petition before the tribunal in Osogbo challenging the election results from 749 polling units across 10 local government areas, alleging electoral malpractices, especially over-voting.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Mr Adeleke as the winner of the governorship election, having polled 403, 271 votes against 375,027 polled by Mr Oyetola. 

(NAN)