The Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate in the June 18 gubernatorial election held in Ekiti State, Engr. Segun Oni has begun legal battle to challenge the victory of Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress(APC).
Recall that Oyebanji was declared winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) he polled 187,057 votes against against second placed Segun Oni who polled 82,209 votes.
Immediately results started trickling in, Oni accused the APC of vote buying before and during the June Governorship election in the state.
Meanwhile international observers had adjudged the Ekiti governorship election as peaceful, credible, free and fair.
However, Oni, while fielding reporters’ questions shortly after filing the suit on Thursday evening at the High Court premises in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital said: “I’m here to submit my petition in accordance with law and we are doing this to defend the sanctity of the system. I challenging the election result because I believe that I won.“
Adewale said his client also believed that the person so declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) did not win the election.