40 elections contests ". These duties having devoid on the Chairman by statute cannot be denied or refused; 3. Counsel for Respondent says and urges the hearing to take judicial notice of the exhibits attached to the motion to recuse which are newspapers clippings revealing that the Chairman played his role as the Chairman and giving updates on the elections and standing by the elections results. Counsel says in the case "Kuku Dorbor vs. The National Elections Commissions decided June 2012, the Supreme Court held that elections results are considered valid and should be treated as valid until contrary evidence or prove is provided. The Chairman was therefore within the pile of the law when he declared that eh election results are valid and that the Commission stands by those result. Moreover, in the case In Re: C. Abayomi Cassell 28LLR, pg. 107, Syl. I & 2 the Supreme Court held "in the absence of any statute in the contrary, it is fairly well settled that a Judge is not disqualified because of unfavorable comment or an expression of opinion as to the guilt or innocence of an accused"' and also "the mere opinion expressed by a Judge which can be removed by evidenced is insufficient to disqualified a judge from sitting on a case". 4. Counsel says that the motion is self-serving because on the 6`h Day of November following arguments on the refusal to admit the Unity Party as an intervener they appealed to the Board and the Board made two decisions in their favor. (1) Granting the Intervention and (2) Denying our objections against the appeal when they did not announce appeal. So those where two decisions that were made, in their favor even after the newspaper clippings that they are complaining of has started running and the Chairman presided over those sessions, and we didn't see any motion. WHEREFORE, AND IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, Counsel for Respondent prays the Board to deny and dismiss the motion and order the proceedings continue. And submits.” The Board, knowing that it could only legally proceed with the appeal before it upon first disposing of the motion to recuse, on November 23, 2017, entertained arguments on the said motion and the resistance thereto. Almost immediately following arguments by the parties, the Board, on the same date of November 23, 2017, handed down its ruling on the motion, denying the motion, sustaining the resistance, and ordering that the main appeal case before it be proceeded with. Here is how the Board rationalized its denial of the motion: FINAL RULING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONER DUKULY SPOKE FOR THE BOARD. Heard: November 23, 2017. Decided: November 23, 2017 On November 22, 2017, 1st and 2nd Appellants filed with the Board of Commissioners a motion to recuse, requesting the Chairman of the National Elections Commission, Cllr. Jerome G. Korkoya, to recuse himself from hearing their appeal. Appellants aver that Chairman Korkoya made public statements at several press briefings and that such statements reveal that Chairman