The appeal brought before the Nigerian Supreme Court by Senator Iyiola Omisore, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate, challenging the election of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress, APC. in the August 9, 2014 governorship election in Osun State, has been dismissed.
Delivering judgment on the case, Justice John Fabiyi, who led a seven-man panel of the court, upheld the judgments of the Court of Appeal in Akure and the Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal.
The Appeal court and the election tribunal had both affirmed Aregbesola’s victory.
In the lead judgment read by Justice C.C Nweze, six of the seven issues brought before the court were resolved in favour of the Osun governor while one was against him.
He said all the justices thereafter unanimously decided that the appeal lacked merit and was bound to be dismissed.
