Osun Poll: Tribunal reserves judgment | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⚠️
The Osun Election Petitions Tribunal on Friday adjourned for judgment, the petition filed by former Gov Gboyega Oyetola, challenging the victory of Sen. Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party in the July 16 governorship election. The Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Tertsea Kume, reserved the judgment for a later day to be…
Oyetola and APC were challenging the election results from 749 polling units across 10 local government areas of the state for various alleged electoral malpractice, especially over-voting. Fagbemi cited sections 51 and 47 of the Electoral Act on cancellation of polling units where numbers of votes exceeded the numbers of registered and accredited voters .
Olujimi said all the documents tendered by the respondent’s counsel had no connection with each other, with no probative value . ” If deduction of 1750 units was carried out from the total 3763 units in the state, the second respondent will still emerge as winner with over 20,000 votes.”
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