‘Adrian Forty’s death won’t stall AC’s evidence’

The Action Congress has said that the death of a British forensic expert, Mr. Adrian Forty, will not stop it from presenting the forensic report which the deceased conducted on electoral materials as evidence before a new election tribunal in Osun State.

Spokesperson of the party, Mr. Gbenga Fayemiwo, in a statement on Monday, said the death of Forty notwithstanding, the forensic examination he conducted on various electoral materials was tenable under the law.

Forty reportedly died in the United Kingdom in January and was buried in February.

He said, “The law cannot stop death, which is a natural phenomenon. Forty did not conduct the investigation alone, he worked with 63 other experts who are capable of handling scientific investigation.”

“Already, Forty’s report has revealed that there are 113,311 ballot papers that are completely alien to Osun State, but were used by the Independent National Electoral Commission to fraudulently declare Oyinlola winner.”

He added that several thousands of ballot papers were also discovered to have been unlawfully used by INEC to announce Oyinlola as the winner in clear violation of the Electoral Law, 2006.

He said, “As we await the arrival of the new tribunal, we are sure that under the heavy weight of indubitable evidence, the temple of justice will do the right thing by exposing the felons in the electoral heist which took place in Osun State on April 14, 2007.”

He noted that the happiness in the PDP over the death of Forty would be short-lived as nothing could change the evidence his group had against the collusion between INEC, police, tribunal members on one hand and the Oyinlola administration on the other hand to impose Oyinlola on the masses.

He said, “The Osun AC was vindicated when the Justice Victor Omage Appeal court described the judgement of Justice Thomas Naron Tribunal as perverse and a miscarriage of justice.”