The governorship candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in the March 9 elections in Oyo State, Adebayo Adelabu, on Tuesday filed a suit before the state Election Petition Tribunal, and prayed it to
overturn the victory of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party and Governor-elect,
Mr. Seyi Makinde.
Adelabu filed the suit along with his party, whose
state Chairman, Chief Akin Oke, had, after the result of the election was
announced, said the party was considering court case to upturn the victory of
Makinde.
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 a total of 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? We
will go to court once there are enough grounds to do so."
On Tuesday, 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 while Makinde and PDP are second and third
respondents respectively.
But in a swift reaction, the state Secretary of PDP,
Mr. Wasiu Adeleke, said there was no cause for alarm because it was glaring
from the results across all the five geopolitical zones of the state that
"Makinde won overwhelmingly and polled the highest number of votes and was
subsequently declared as winner."
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