The Ogun State Election Petitions Tribunal has announced that it’s set to deliver judgment on Saturday in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Ladi Adebutu, to challenge the victory of Governor Dapo Abiodun in the March 18 governorship election.
Obioma Ezenta, the tribunal’s secretary made this known while speaking to pressmen on Thursday.
While reacting to the development, both the ruling All Progressives Congress and the PDP believe they will get justice at the tribunal whilst also assuring their supporters to stay calm and hopeful.
According to the media aide of the PDP governorship candidate, Afolabi Orekoya, the party had presented its case very well.
Orekoya said, “It is true that we have been given the reserved date for judgment on our petition against INEC, Mr Dapo Abiodun and the APC.
We have been able to prove our case that he (Abiodun) did not win the March 18 governorship election and that INEC ought not to have made a declaration. We proved this by tendering enough documents as evidence for all the 99 polling units affected, calling 94 witnesses including INEC ad hoc staff who worked directly in some of the cancelled polling units.
“The good thing is that during trials, all the respondents, including INEC, agreed that polling units were cancelled as a result of violence and attacks. We could also see that INEC did not deny that the documents tendered did not originate from them. One very grievous electoral malpractice that we established was the ballot papers that were marked and those with multiple impressions.