AA, APM file petitions opposing Makinde’s re-election

Two petitions for the governorship election and four for the House of Assembly elections 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 the tribunal’s secretary, Ibrahim Sada, who made the announcement yesterday in Ibadan.

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The petitions, according to the secretary, were submitted in protest of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) declaration of Governor Seyi Makinde as the victor of the March 18 governorship election.

According to him, 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.

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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.
He stated that no new petitions could be filed because the legal deadline of 21 days for the filing of complaints by harmed parties had passed.