UPDATE: TRIBUNAL DECLARES ADELEKE WINNER OF OSUN GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

March 22, 2019

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Ife Adewole

The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal has declared Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the winner of the state election.

The tribunal declared the September 27 rerun election in the state unlawful.

The three-man panel of the Tribunal deliver the judgement on Friday following the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleka against the All Progressives Congress, APC and its candidate, Gboyega Oyetola.

The Tribunal also ruled that PDP and Adeleke gave evidence that it was the state Returning Officer who cancelled the results in 7 Polling Units, adding that the petitioners also proved that the Returning Officer has no power to cancel election results of a polling unit.

The Tribunal deducted 2,029 votes from APC scores and 1,246 votes from PDP votes in 17 polling units where there was noncompliance.

Delivering the judgement, the panel had a divided decision. While two members (majority judgment) ruled in favour of PDP and Ademola; the chairman, Justice Ibrahim Sirajo (minority judgment), ruled in favour of APC and Oyetola.