UMAR FARUK ABDULLAHI, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Governorship/Legislative Election Tribunal in Akure, Ondo State (Coram G.N. Nabaruma, Chairman, A.E. Okon, D.I. Okungbowa, M.B Goji and A.S Umar JJ, members), delivered its judgment on the 25th day of July, 2008, wherein it declared the Petitioner, Dr. Rahman Olusegun Mimiko as the duly elected Governor of Ondo State of Nigeria, being the candidate that scored the highest number of valid votes cast at the 14th April, 2007 Governorship election. The first, second, third, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth Respondents being dissatisfied have separately appealed to this court.
The petition culminating in this appeal was brought on 14th May, 2007 against the election of Dr. Olusegun Agagu who had contested the Governorship election in Ondo State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and was the first Respondent at the Tribunal.
The Petitioner, Dr. Rahman Olusegun Mimiko, was the candidate of the Labour Party and f…