Breaking: Judgment On Osun Election Petition Adjourns To 5th July, 2019 - By The Supreme Court.

Hearing Commence at the Supreme Court as counsels to Defendants and Appellants announced appearance

Chief Olanipekun wanted to move a Notice of Preliminary Objection but Dr Ikpeazu, PDP Counsel, stated that he has a motion on notice which will cure the preliminary objection. Chief Olanipekun stated that the 1st Respondent is opposing the motion and has filed counter processes

The Supreme Court held that the judgment in Appeal No. 553 filed by Adeleke and PDP  against the judgments of the Court of Appeal in favour of APC and INEC will cover Appeals No. 554 and 555 filed against the judgments of the Court of Appeal in favour of APC and INEC.

 Wole Olanipekun is fighting his preliminary objection and Dr Ikpeazu is covering the ground to make sure Wole fails.

 Dr Ikpeazu SAN is now moving a motion seeking to cure the defects upon which the 1st Respondent's Preliminary Objection was predicated. He urged the court to grant the application.

The CJN asked Dr Ikpeazu what the motion is all about. He replied that the motion is seeking to amend the name of the Counsel appearing under the signature.

Dr Ikpeazu admitted that the notice of appeal was not attached as Exhibit and apologised to the court for the failure but was asked to be refer to the  Record.

Dr Ikpeazu, upon inquiry from the Court said the essence of their application is to amend as 1st and 2nd  Respondents to read 1st and 2nd Appellants.

The Supreme Court reserved ruling on the Preliminary Objection and the Motion for amendment.

Dr Ikpeazu  identified the Brief of argument as being filed on the 24th May, 2019. and the Reply Brief  was filed on 30th of May. He prayed the court to allow the appeal and set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal and restored the Tribunal verdict.

The CJN is complaining about the Appellants' Brief and the spacing.

The CJN rejected the request for further adumbration by Dr. Ikpeazu. The CJN said the Brief of the Appellants was 43 and that the Appellant decided not to paginate some pages.

The Respondents agreed with the application of Dr Ikpeazu that the judgment in appeal no 553 will apply in Appeal nos 554 and 555

Chief Olanipekun said that the Respondent Brief was filed on 28 May 2019 and adopted the brief. He urged the Court to dismiss the appeal and affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal.

Yusuf Alli SAN said INEC as a respondent will abide by the judgment of the Court and therefore did not file any process.

Olumide Olujinmi submitted that the 3rd Respondent, APC, did not file anything and urged the Court to dismiss the appeal.

Judgement will be delivered on July 5th as announced by the CJN