* NBA chair protests membership of Oyewole in appeal panel
Alex Enumah in Abuja
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal will on April 24, 2019, commence hearing in the appeals filed by the Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), challenging the decision of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which sacked Oyetola from office.
The tribunal, in a split decision of two-to-one in its March 22, 2019 judgment, voided the victory of Oyetola and the APC in last year’s Osun governorship election.
Dissatisfied with the decision of the tribunal, Oyetola and the APC had approached the Court of Appeal to reverse the decision.
Both Oyetola and the APC in the separate notices of appeal they filed against the tribunal’s majority judgment urged the Court of Appeal to uphold their appeals, set aside the majority judgment and dismiss the October 16, 2018…
