The Ondo State Election Petition Tribunal has struck out the
petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the October
20, 2020 governorship election, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, against the victory of
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu in the election.
Jegede had approached the tribunal seeking the nullification
of Akeredolu as the winner of the election.
This was after the Independent National Electoral Commission
declared Akeredolu who contested on the platform of the All Progressives
Congress the winner of the election.
The verdict by the tribunal was delivered by a three-man
panel led by Justice Umar Abubakar on Tuesday via zoom as the regular venue of
the panel was not open due to the strike action embarked upon by members of the
Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria.
The tribunal dismissed all the grounds of the PDP candidate’s petition for lack of merit.
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