Supreme Court judges have accused the Independent National Electoral commission of rigging the 2018 elections in Osun state in favor of the All Progressives Congress.
Two judges said this while disagreeing with the majority rule upholding the icumbent Gboyega Oyetola’s election.
One of the dissenting judges, Kumai Akaas, accused INEC of rigging the polls during the rerun.
The second judge, Paul Galinje, said INEC had no cogent reason to have conducted a rerun in the first place.
He said “the decision of the commission to have pronounced that election inconclusive meant that INEC had something up it sleaves.”
The blistering rebuke of the electoral body came at the Supreme Court’s ruling on the election dispute brought by Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The two judges from a seven-member panel, disagreed with a majority ruling upholding the September 2018 election in Mr Oyetola’s favour.
The People’s Democratic Party had approached the court with prayers that it be declared winner of the gubernatorial polls, this prayer was however rejected by the Supreme court.
