Senator Ademola Adeleke duly won the July 16 election with 402,349 votes to beat Mr Gboyega Oyetola who polled 374,256. The report which the Tribunal accepted as a key document posited that the above figures were arrived at after reviewing cases of irregularities.
That was the submission of forensic expert Mr Samuel Oduntan on Friday 23 December 2022 before the Osun state Election Petition Tribunal. The tribunal accepted the report as exhibit.
Speaking before the State Election Petition Tribunal today the forensic expert Mr. Samuel Oduntan said “I examined the following documents (materials) / BVAS machices obtained from or supplied by INEC: CTC of Forms EC8A, EC8B, EC8C & EC8D ii) CTC of Forms EC40G (where provided) iii) INEC Osun State Directory of Polling Units, 2022 iv) BVAS Authentication Report v) BVAS Machines vi) INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the conduct of elections, 2022 and (vii) Manual for Election Officials 2022.
He continues “The report posited that of the 750 polling units being challenged by the petitioner, only six have issues as per over-voting as alleged in the petition with 771 votes of APC affected while affected votes of the PDP was 1, 022. According to the report, votes of parties on EC8D were 375, 027 for APC and 403,371 for PDP. Less votes affected by irregularities are 771 for APC and 1, 022 for PDP. He added that according to the report, votes of parties after deduction was put at 374, 256 (APC) and 402, 349 (PDP).
Conclusively, Mr Oduntan who brilliantly defended the forensic report said the observations were reached in consonance with the global best practices required of a Statistician / Forensic Examiner in reaching the observations and and discoveries made therein.
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