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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Adebayo Adelabu, has filed a petition at the tribunal to challenge the victory of Mr Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the March 9 election.
Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Makinde winner of the governorship election after polling 515,621 votes to defeat Adelabu who had 357,982. Other respondents in the case are the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Total valid votes were 916,860, rejected votes were 20,685 while total vote cast is 937,545. Makinde trounced Adelabu in 28 local councils, APC won in five local councils including Oriire, Ogbomoso North, Surulere, Ogo-Oluwa while ADP won one council.
Investigation by NAN on Tuesday at the secretariat of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Ibadan revealed that only Adelabu and his party filed a petition.
NAN reports that the 21 days stipulated by law for any party to file its petition at the tribunal commenced from the day the winner of the election was declared.NAN also reports that the 21 days deadline to file any petition ended on March 31.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal received a total of 31 petitions.The petitions are four for the Senate, 12 for the House of Representatives and 15 for the state House of Assembly.
PDP lost power to the APC in the state in 2011 also staged a surprising come back by winning 26 seats in the State House of Assembly while APC won five seats. African Democratic Party (ADP) won one seat.
Although the governorship election was successfully conducted, it suffered a number of skirmishes, recording two deaths at the last count.One of the casualties of the election was a serving House of Representatives member, Temitope Olatoye, of Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency, who was shot dead by political thugs in his ward.
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