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EKITI ELECTION TRIBUNAL: INEC staff deliberately voided PDP vote –Witness
Ekiti governorship election tribunal was on Tuesday told that a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deliberately voided votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the July 14 governorship election in the state.
A petitioner’s witness, Omobuljo Bankole, told this to the tribunal headed by Justice Suleiman Belgore, sitting at the FCT High Court, Apo.
He specifically claimed that PDP votes were voided in Unit 009, Ward 4 of Ido -Osi Local Government Area.
The petitioners, PDP, and its candidate in the election, Professor Kolapo Olusola is challenging the outcome of the election result at the tribunal.
Kayode Fayemi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election, who was inaugurated as governor of Ekiti State on October 16, is a respondent in the suit along with his party, APC and the INEC.
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Responding to a question during cross-examination by Abiodun Owonikoko (SAN), counsel to APC, Bankole said that his party scored more than 119 votes during the election in his unit.
He said, “I was there when they deliberately voided the PDP’s votes in Unit 9 (Ward 4, Ido -Osi LGA), the male polling clerk of INEC voided 27 votes.”
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