The court of appeal sitting in Kaduna has nullified the election of All Progressive Congress,APC Senator Dayo Adeyeye and order the independent National Electoral Commission to issue certificate of returns to his challenger, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Senator Biodun Olujimi.
The election Tribunal had nullified the declaration of Dayo
Adeyeye as the winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial election held on February
23 and declared Senator Biodun Olujimi as the authentic winner. Dissatisfied
with the outcome of the tribunal Judgement, Adeyeye who was once the spokesman
of the People’s Democratic Party and an ardent critic of the All Progressives
Congress, APC approached the court of Appeal to set aside the judgement of the
Tribunal. But in a judgement delivered on Wednesday in Kaduna state, , Justice
Uzor Anyanwu upheld the judgment of the tribunal and ordered INEC to issue
certificate of return to Senator Biodun Olujimi.
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It will be recalled
that the independent National Electoral Commission had declared Dayo Adeyeye of
the All Progressive Congress as winner of the February 23 , 2019 National
Assembly election.
Senator Olujimi who was incumbent senator representing the
senatorial district during the election challenged the result at the tribunal
on the grounds that she scored the highest number of votes cast. In her
petition, Senator Olujimi asked the tribunal to nullify Adeyeye’s victory on
the grounds that the election was marred by massive irregularities.
Senator Adeyeye was until few weeks to the election a member
of the Peoples Democratic Party where he served as its spokesman and was one of
the fiercest critics of the APC. But following his disagreement with the then
leadership of the party in Ekiti State, he jumped ship and joined the APC where
he was given the ticket to contest for the Ekiti South Senatorial district
election.