THE Senatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for Lagos West in the 2015 general elections, Segun Adewale popularly known as Aeroland has raised the alarm over alleged sudden disappearance of some vital documents which he tendered in support of his petition against the victory of Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Adeola as the winner of the election which was conducted on March 28, 2015. Dissatisfied, Adewale had filed a petition before the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ikeja to challenge Adeola’s victory.
Adewale is specifically asking the Tribunal to nullify the declaration of Adeola as winner of the election. But Adewale, in a petition written on his behalf by a group, Concerned Stakeholders of Lagos West Senatorial District, alleged that the lawyers to the defendants conspired with the officials of the tribunal to steal vital documents which were duly tendered in support of his petition.
The petition was dated July 8, 2015 and addressed to the Chairman of the Tribunal. The Concerned Stakeholders further alleged that the theft of the vital documents was nothing but pure despicable acts of desperation on the part of the APC candidate to thwart the cause of justice with active connivance of the staffers of the Tribunal.
They wondered how all the documents validly tendered, sworn to and admitted in evidence, upon which Adewale was cross-examined by the defence lawyers, would suddenly disappear from the custody of the court. “Based on this premise, we wish to emphatically state with all sense of modesty that the consequential effect of the missing documents if not found and properly unraveled, will invariably taint the ruling of your lordships, wherein the onus lies on the court to prove that all documents tendered before now be requested for verification and assessments before the ruling on the petition is delivered,” the stakeholders demanded.
