Ekiti 2022: Declare Me As Winner, Oni Challenges Oyebanji

The first runner up in the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti state, Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party( SDP) has challenged the winner as declared by Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) Biodun Oyebanji.

This was contained in a 1,095-page petition filed before the Ekiti State Election Petition Tribunal.

According to Oni, he was challenging the election outcome at the tribunal in view of the fact that he allegedly defeated the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Biodun Oyebanji, who was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Oni, who spoke to journalists at the tribunal shortly after his legal team submitted the petition, said, “I’m here to submit my petition in accordance with the law and we are doing this to defend the sanctity of the system. I am challenging the election result because I believe that I won.”

It would be recalled that the SDP candidate said last week that he could not congratulate Oyebanji because he did not believe the person declared governor-elect won the June I8 election.

But INEC had said Oyebanji of the APC came first in the election having polled 187,057 votes against Oni of the SDP who scored 82,209 votes to come second among the 16 candidates that participated in the election.