The Osun State Governorship Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, declared Senator Ademola Isiaka Adeleke of the People’s democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of the controversial September 22, 2018 gubernatorial poll in the state.
The tribunal also declared the September 27, 2018 rerun election as illegal.
Consequently, the three,man panel ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to the sacked Governor Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and issue a fresh one to Senator Adeleke.
The Tribunal also ruled that PDP and Adeleke proved that it was the state Returning Officer who cancelled the results in 7 polling units, adding that the petitioners also proved that the Returning Officer has no power to cancel election results of a polling unit.
The tribunal upheld the 2,029 votes deducted from APC scores and the 1,246 from PDP’s votes in 17 polling units where there was non compliance.