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BREAKING: Oyo Gov, Makinde wins as tribunal dismisses APC, Adelabu’s petition

The Oyo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has dismissed the petition filed by the APC governorship candidate, Bayo Adelabu, challenging the election of Governor Seyi Makinde of the PDP.

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The Justice Sirajo Mohammed led tribunal ruled that the petitioners were not able to proof over voting and did not substantiate claim of non compliance with the electoral act 2010 as amended.

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“We have examined the evidences of the witnesses called by the petitioners and we haven’t found any proof of over-voting while we validates the polling units except the ones we cancelled,” the tribunal said.

The petitioners had challenged results in over one thousand polling units but called only 69 witnesses out of which only 37 were unit agents while the 32 others were ward collation agents.

More details soon.

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