APC senator, reps win at Ekiti tribunal

The Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has dismissed three petitions filed by the PDP against three candidates of the APC  in the February 23, 2019 National Assembly elections in Ekiti. The petitioners were Kehinde Agboola, Nicolas Olusola Omotosho and Duro Faseyi against Peter Owolabi, Ibrahim Olanrewaju and Olubunmi Adetumbi respectively. […]

The Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has dismissed three petitions filed by the PDP against three candidates of the APC  in the February 23, 2019 National Assembly elections in Ekiti.

The petitioners were Kehinde Agboola, Nicolas Olusola Omotosho and Duro Faseyi against Peter Owolabi, Ibrahim Olanrewaju and Olubunmi Adetumbi respectively.

The three-man panel in a unanimous judgment read by the tribunal chairman, Hon Justice D.D. Adeck in the petition filed by Duro Faseyi against Olubunmi  Adetumbi, the tribunal upheld the preliminary objection filed by the respondent and dismissed the petition.

Other members of the panel, Justice C. N Mbanu Nwenyi and Justice Khadi M. S Abubakar, delivered judgment on Kehinde  Agboola and Ibrahim Olarenwaju’s petitions respectively.

In the judgment delivered for about six hours on Saturday, the tribunal held that in the merit of the case the petition was liable to be dismissed, having not been proven as required by the law.

Justice Adeck ruled that having also failed to call witnesses from the venue of the APC primaries, the  petitioner  came to the tribunal empty handed and was bound to go home empty handed and poorer.

The PDP and its candidates, through their counsel, Ahmed Raji (SAN), had petitioned the APC, its candidates and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) claiming that the APC had no candidates for Ekiti North Senatorial District, Ekiti North Federal Constituency I and II, where Senator Adetumbi, Owolabi and Olanrewaju were declared winners respectively by INEC.