The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has nullified the election of spokesman of the Senate, Senator Dayo Adeyeye.

The ruling was delivered by Justice Uzor Anyanwu on Wednesday.

The court also upheld the tribunal judgment declaring Peoples Democratic Party’s Senator Abiodun Olujimi winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial election held on February 23.

The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Adeyeye, who ran on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, winner of the National Assembly election.

Olujimi approached the elections petitions tribunal, seeking declaration that she had the highest number of votes in the election.

She urged the tribunal to nullify the APC candidate’s victory, claiming irregularities in the electoral process.

The tribunal subsequently nullified elections in some polling units and declared Olujimi winner.

All Progressives Congress and its candidate in the election, Dayo Adeyeye appealed the tribunal ruling at the appellate court.

Anyanwu upheld the tribunal ruling and also ordered INEC to issue a certificate of return to Olujimi.

Opeyemi4real:
Please correct the second to the last paragraph. Up PDP. So happy for my constituency

Racoon:
Still affirming that most of the elections conducted by INEC under Mamud Yakubu & the APC are more of fraudulent sham than being a democratic process.

garfield1:

Adeyeye defeated that woman

garfield1:

Adeyeye defeated that woman

IamR:

You can say that again. See the number of national assembly members that have been removed in the last two months by the court of appeal.

Shegunsmart:
I trust Governor Fayemi, he is a politician. I'm sure he knows of all of these. He'll keep mute, and if care is not taken, he'll also support that Adeyeye be shown the way out. The reason is not far from the next Ekiti state governorship election. He doesn't want anyone who's big (APC big politician) in Ekiti. He's sure to field in a candidate, but not Adeyeye who would likely want to contest. It's all politics, though I'm sure Biodun Olujimi is more popular than Dayo Adeyeye.

seunmsg:
This is an unfortunate judgement! Adeyeye won the election clearly. Sadly, the court had ruled and all parties must accept the decision. We won’t badmouth the judiciary like some other losers because the judgement wasn’t favorable.

garfield1:

So painful.why cant the court order rerun in those few polling units where irregularities were noted

durangokid:
. For APC to rig it again? Hmmm disgruntled minds

garfield1:

I said that in another thread.fayemi must have promised bamidele and adeyeye the ticket in 2022 and him frustrating them politically is the only way to stop them

garfield1:

Are there up to 50

IamR:

The number does not really matter. The election was not free and fair, simple.

IamR:

Hmmm! I don't believe it. All we know is that Sen. Olujimi won the election.

IamR:

Hmmm! I don't believe it. All we know is that Sen. Olujimi won the election.

IamR:

Don't mind them.

garfield1:

The law must be followed.if there were irregularities,you redo the polls.apc mostly fields popular candidates so rigging is not needed

IamR:

But you should know that Olujimi is also a popular candidate with a lot of followers from her constituency. She is more popular than adeyeye.

garfield1:

I dont know if she's more popular but she's popular same as adeyeye.based on what happened during the 2018 pdp primariez where he almost defeated the candidate of fayose and how he delivered his lga to apc,i rate him slightly higher than olujimi who is still popular but couldn't influence things.
Now,since two of them are popular,it means any of them could have won.my problem is the manner in which the appeal court gave her the victory.i think its high time nass cases goes up to supreme court again to prevent judicial recklessness at the lower stages

gotnel:
Congratulations to the lady of the moment in Ekiti
Let us move ahead.
Politicians are the same.