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Nigeria: Akala Condemns AC's Stand On Oyo Tribual Verdict
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Vanguard (Lagos)
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Ola Ajayi
GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, has condemned the call by Action Congress(AC) that votes in the four local government areas of the state at the last April poll upheld by the tribunal to legitimise his election ought to have been cancelled.
The governor who had his election upheld by the three out of four panel members after deducting the invalid votes from Surulere, Ogo-Oluwa, Ogbomoso North and Ogbomoso South local councils of the state said the AC merely displayed barefaced double standard by supporting the rule of law only when it suits them.
Arguing further, the governor, in a statement through his Special Adviser on Public Communication, Prince Dotun Oyelade added that for the party to have commended the decision of the Edo State Election Tribunal on the nullification of the state gubernatorial lection based on the deduction of invalidated votes which saw Comrade Oshiomole beat Governor Osunbor by 37,000 votes and condemned that of Oyo State proved that the party was being partial in its appraisal.
According to the governor, "this two-faced hypocrisy has exposed the AC as a arty that has turned the rule of law into a farcical and malleable theory that can be employed and discarded at will".
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The statement read further, "the principle upon which the two rulings premised was basically the same -- that is the deduction of offending votes from the lot and warding victory to the candidate that has satisfied the provision of the constitution and the electoral act 2006".
Akala pointed out that while he was the beneficiary of that principle in yo State, Comrade Oshiomole benefited in Edo State, adding that the Edo ribunal nullified election in two local government
areas based on the recommendation of the state electoral commission while such a thing never happened in Oyo State.
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