Oyo State All Progressives
Congress (APC) governorship candidate Mr. Adebayo Adelabu has approached the
Election Petitions Tribunal to challenge the victory of Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) candidate Mr. Seyi Makinde.
Adelabu is praying the
tribunal to overturn Makinde’s victory.
He filed the suit alongside
his party, whose state chairman, Chief Akin Oke, had after the result of the
election, said the APC was considering approaching the election tribunal to
upturn Makinde’s triumph.
Makinde was on March 10
declared the winner of the governorship election by the state Returning
Officer, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, having polled 515,621 votes to defeat
Adelabu, who scored 357,982 votes.
The results indicated that
Makinde defeated Adelabu with 157,639 votes.
Oke said: “I want to repeat
what I said concerning the outcome of the last governorship election. First, I
want to greet all the people who genuinely voted for us. But where there is a
genuine case of fraud, of course why not go to court?
“Do you want us to continue
to support fraud? I repeat we will go to court once there are enough grounds to
do so.”
Yesterday, the APC made
real its threat as it was listed as the second petitioner.
The petition has
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as first respondent. Makinde
and PDP are second and third respondents.
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