Ekiti: A-Court upholds Fayemi’s election, dismisses Olusola, PDP’s appeal vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The appellate court, in a unanimous judgment by a three-man panel of Justices, affirmed the July 28 verdict of the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which declared Fayemi as the bonafide winner of the July 14, 2018, gubernatorial election in the state.The panel, led by Justice Justice Stephen Adah, said it had no reason to dislodge the decision of the tribunal that the petition the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Prof.
Though the appellate court heard the appeal on Tuesday, it reserved and delivered its judgement around 7:15pm on Thursday. It will be recalled that INEC had declared Fayemi winner with a total of 197,459 votes as against 178,121 votes that was polled by Olusola.In their petition marked EPT/BKS/GOV/01/18, the petitioners prayed the tribunal to sack Fayemi on the premise that the governorship election was not only flawed, but conducted without substantial compliance to the Electoral Act.
However, the Respondents, through their lawyers, Chief Charles Edosomwan, SAN, Akin Olujinmi, SAN, and Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, persuade the tribunal to dismiss the petition which they argued was grossly incompetent. Whereas the PDP candidate called a total of 71 witnesses that testified before the tribunal, Fayemi closed his defence after he produced four witnesses that testified on his behalf.
Justice Belgore held that “scanty evidence” the petitioners laid before the tribunal was not sufficient to warrant the annulment of votes credited to the APC.
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