The Supreme Court has finally laid to rest the governorship battle in Ondo State.
Although it upheld the victory of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, it was a narrow escape of sort.
The reason is that the seven-judge panel was split 4 to seven for and against the victory.
In the majority judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, four of the seven-member panel dismissed the appeal by Eyitayo Jegede and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the grounds that it was incompetent. Justice Agim upheld an earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal, that the petition filed by Jegede and his party at the election tribunal was incompetent because they failed to include Yobe Governor and Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the APC, Mai Mala Buni as a party.
