Osun State's tribunal ruling: To order a rerun or to engage in judicial statistical inference?

How Election petitions tribunal reached its verdicts on Osun Gov Poll

Sub-judice, lawyers will say

That is, the issues are already before a competent court

However, we can make some whispers

Sec 140(3) Electoral Act gives the Tribunal the power

to declare the candidate who truly score the highest valid votes elected

But does this allows for judicial statistical inference?

And Paragraph 31 of the Election Guidelines

empowers the Presiding Officer to make report of cancellation of votes

But where such is not done

Can a superior officer to whom the report is made(i.e the State's returning officer)

validly exercise such power?

Soon, this whispers will turn to pronouncement from the courts