The candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the June 18 governorship election in Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, has filed a 1,095-page petition before the Ekiti State Election Petition Tribunal.
Speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, shortly after his legal team submitted the petition, 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, in the early hours of June 19, declared Oyebanji of the APC winner of the gubernatorial election with 187,057 votes against Oni of the SDP who polled 82,209 votes to come second among the 16 candidates that participated in the election.
The former Ekiti state governor said he submitted the petition in accordance with the law and doing that to defend the sanctity of the system, adding that he’s challenging the election result because he believe that he won.
The SDP candidate had disclosed to newsmen 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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