The candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the June 18
governorship election in Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, Thursday evening, filed
a 1,095-page petition before the Ekiti State Election Petition Tribunal.
Oni said he was challenging the election outcome at the
tribunal in view of the fact that he allegedly defeated the candidate of the
All Progressives Congress, Biodun Oyebanji, who was declared the winner by the
Independent National Electoral Commission.
INEC had said Oyebanji of the APC came first in the election
having polled 187,057 votes against Oni of the SDP who scored 82,209 votes to
come second among the 16 candidates that participated in the election.
Oni, who spoke to journalists at the tribunal shortly after
his legal team submitted the petition, said, “I’m here to submit my petition in
accordance with the law and we are doing this to defend the sanctity of the
system. I am challenging the election result because I believe that I won.”
The SDP candidate had said last week that he could
not congratulate Oyebanji because he did not believe the person declared
governor-elect won the June I8 election.
Oni’s lawyer, Obafemi Adewale, SAN, who said there was more
to the election, said, “If my client had believed the governorship election was
free, fair, and credible, he would not have challenged the outcome.”
Adewale said that his client also believed that “the person
declared by INEC as the winner did not win with lawful votes.”
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