Meet The Lawyer Who Convinced Tribunal To Declare Adeleke Winner Of Osun Election

The Man Who Convinced Osun State Tribunal To Declare Adeleke As The New Governor Of Osun State.

This is Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu ( SAN)

He is a Nigerian lawyer and also a senior advocate of Nigeria.

A brilliant lawyer and one of the finest Nigerian lawyers alive.

Dr Ikpeazu’s forte is election petition and let me explain why:

Dr Ikpeazu is Adeleke’s head of legal team that is handling his matter in court.

This
man brilliantly came up with the argument that INEC returning Officer
as it were lacked the locus to cancel the Osun state governorship
concluded election.

His reasons were simple: Our electoral laws
did not empower the Returning officer to do so and to his credit, Osun
state tribunal members affirmed his brilliant argument by declaring his
client winner.

Dr Ikpeazu will be leading Adeleke’s legal team
all the way to Supreme Court and I know that with his deep profound
knowledge of our electoral laws and his sheer brilliance which is
beautiful to watch, victory is sure for the maligned Adeleke.

But
aside this, what many people did not know that this was the same man
that got the court to cancel Chris Ngige’s stolen mandate as the brief
governor of Anambra state and then declare the not so popular Peter Obi
as the governor of Anambra state in 2006.

Dr Ikpeazu marshaled
his argument with eloquence and conviction from the lower court to
Appeal court that Peter Gregory Obi was rigged out by Chris Uba and
Ngige with iron clad evidences attached, the court after hearing his
brilliant submission from this Onitsha born lawyer and with the
evidences on their table can’t help but declare Peter Obi as the
rightful governor of Anambra state even when many pessimists thought it
was impossible for the court to do so at that time.

What this means is that he is the first Lawyer in our history to convince a Nigerian court to send a sitting governor packing.

And he is about to repeat the same feat with Adeleke.

What a man! History they say has a way of repeating itself.

An
evasive and a quiet family man that shuns media publicity and the
glamour associated with senior silk in this part. He prefers his work
to do the talking for him.

A giant and a colossus of the legal profession.

Take
a bow Dr Onyechi Ikpeazu! You have done well sir and history will
remember the role you played in advancing and shaping our legal
profession.