Ogun Governorship Election: We Can’t Be Cowed, Intimidated – Tribunal Warns INEC, REC

The Ogun State Election Petition Tribulation sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has warned parties in the ongoing cases before it not to entertain the idea of intimidating or cowing it, saying its assignment will be discharged judiciously and fairly.
The Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Chinwe Onyeabor, said this on Wednesday during the sitting of the tribunal at High Court VIII, Isabo, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The Judge got feasibly infuriated when a Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Ogun State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Opeyemi Adeyemi, told the court that he wasn’t sure whether his clients were served with the processes of the Tribunal before its order of Monday.
The Tribunal had ordered an abridging of time till Wednesday for parties in a motion on notice filled in the case number EPT/OG/GOV/02/2019 be served before the motion can be moved.
When the case came up on Wednesday, Adeyemi told the Tribunal that he got information about the motion on Tuesday and would apply for a shortest adjournment for him to be familiar with the motion.
He said, “We were informed yesterday and we are in the process of filling out processes, I don’t even know if we have been served with the instance motion, I have not seen it.”
Counsel to Labour Party in the case, Monday Mawah, while opposing the application, said INEC should not be allowed to constitute delay in the case, saying that the electoral body’s target was to waste time.
In his response, Adeyemi queried the last ruling of the court, saying he was not even aware if his clients had been properly served before the Tribunal ruled on application to abridge time in the motion.