At the Osun Election Petition Tribunal yesterday, the defence counsel devoted the entire day to vetting, sorting and verifying certified true copies of documents tendered before the Tribunal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the August 9 governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore.
The legal team of the respondent, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who won the election, clinically went through all the documents presented by the petitioner, who was challenging results in 17 local governments.
Security was tight at the tribunal and politicians were kept at bay following the tribunal directive.
Anti-bomb and metal detectors were deployed at the venue by a special police unit; cars were screened while lawyers were made to go through metal detector screening.
Governor Rauf Aregbesola won the August 9th Osun state gubernatorial election with 394,684 votes against Senator Iyiola Omisore of Peoples Democratic Party who polled 292,747 votes.
Verification of Documents continues at Osun Tribunal
