The Supreme Court ruled that Gboyega Oyetola participated in the last Osun gubernatorial election, which was won by Ademola Adeleke.
According to The Nation, the court dismissed an appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to nullify Oyetola’s election participation.
On Thursday, February 2, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Centus Nweze, ruled that the PDP’s appeal lacked merit.
As a result, the Justice Nweze-led panel directed the PDP’s lawyer, Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), to withdraw the case.
Furthermore, the panel ruled that the PDP could not question the process that resulted in the emergence of All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidates in Oyetola in the election.
Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun state, had urged his predecessor, Adegboyega Oyetola, to stop listening to the devil’s whispers about a possible return to office as governor.
Adeleke made this claim in response to Oyetola, who said he heard from God that he would return to office as governor and that the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would be elected president while speaking to members of the All Progressives Congress in Osogbo.
Ademola Adeleke blasts Oyetola
A statement by the spokesperson for the governor, Olawale Rasheed, on behalf of Adeleke, then declared:
“God is of justice, equity and honesty, not of electoral banditry and deceit.
“The holy books even noted that the devil’s whispering is real and no one should mistake the voice of the devil for God. Our Almighty God has spoken resoundingly in favour of a new Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke. Mr Oyetola should better be reading ‘auzubilahi mina shaytani rajeem’ so he could hear the true voice of God – that a new leader is anointed by divine will for Osun people.”