Tunde Sanni
7 October 2008
Ibadan — There was drama at the Court of Appeal, Ibadan Division yesterday, as counsel to Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, berated the state-owned radio station, the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS) for dishing out false information.
The Counsel accused BCOS of misinforming the public on judgment date on a litigation challenging Alao-Akala's eligibility to contest the April 14, 2007 election.
BCOS had since Sunday, been airing the impending judgment on the election appeal petition between the Republican Party of Nigeria (RPN) gubernatorial candidate in the said election, Chief Mueez Akande, and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), contesting the clearance given to Alao-Akala to contest the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
RPN had headed to the lower election petition tribunal, raising the indictment of Alao-Akala by the administrative panel set up by his predecessor, Senator Rasidi Ladoja, as an ingredient which was enough to bar him from contesting the election.
The BCOS since 6p.m. on Sunday, had put the impending judgment as one of the major highlights in its bulletin, which was sustained till 8a.m. on Monday, an information which spurred Alao-Akala's lawyers and supporters to storm the court in bus loads, to witness the judgment.
The lawyers, led by Nathaniel Oke, SAN, arrived at the court room around 9.20a.m., and sought from the court registrar the omission of the judgment from the cause list, upon which the registrar responded that the judgment was not slated for the day.
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