Four petitions for the House of Assembly elections and two for the governorship election have each been submitted to the Oyo State Election Petition Tribunal.
The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and its candidate, Adeniran Oluwaseyi, filed the first petition challenging the results of the governorship election, and Action Alliance (AA) and its candidate, Babatunde Ajala, filed the second, according to Ibrahim Sada, the tribunal’s secretary, who made the announcement yesterday in Ibadan.
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The petitions, according to the secretary, were submitted in protest of Governor Seyi Makinde’s (Seyi Makinde) declaration as the winner of the March 18 governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC).
He claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Olowokere Adewale, its candidate for the Orelope state Constituency, filed petitions with the state House of Assembly.
Other petitioners, according to Sada, include the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Adegoke Ayodeji, the APC’s candidate for the Ogbomoso South state constituency; and Adeniyi Oluwaseun, the NNPP’s candidate for the Ogbomoso South state constituency.
The PDP and Okedoyin Julius, its candidate for the Saki West state constituency, also submitted a petition contesting the results of the state house of assembly election, the secretary reported.
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He stated that no new petitions could be filed after the legal deadline of 21 days for filing by parties who had been wronged had passed.
