The governorship election petition tribunal in Ibadan, on Thursday, dismissed the petition filed by the Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) against the March 18th victory of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state.
The APM had challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaration of Engr. Seyi Makinde of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as winner after polling 563,756 votes.
Other respondents in the matter are INEC and PDP.
The tribunal, in its unanimous ruling read by it’s chairman, Justice Ejiron Emudainohwo, dismissed the petition and awarded N1 million each as cost in favour of Engr. Seyi Makinde and PDP against APM.
Justice Emudainohwo described the petition as frivolous, adding that it was scandalous for the petition to be filed 46 days after the party was aware their candidate was not interested in it.
She said cost must be awarded against the petitioner for wasting the time and resources of the respondents in filling their processes and for wasting the time of the tribunal.
Credit: BCOS
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