The election that brought Governor Kayode Fayemi to office in July 2018 has again been deemed credible, free and fair.
This is because the court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Fayemi as Governor of Ekiti State.
A three-man panel of Justices of the Court of Appeal, led by Justice Stephen Adah, in a judgment delivered Thursday evening dismissed the appeal filed by the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olusola Eleka and the PDP for lacking in merit.
The tribunal in the judgment resolved all seven issues raised by the appellants in favour of the respondents.
Respondents in the Appeal are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), All Progressives Congress (APC) and Governor Fayemi.
In dismissing the appeal Justice Adah described it as “unmeritorious”, and thereafter affirmed the July 28, 2019 judgment of the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which had upheld Fayemi’s victory at the poll.
The INEC had declared Fayemi and his party, the APC polled a total of 197,459 votes to defeated Eleka and the PDP who placed second with 178,121 votes in the July 14, 2018 election.
Dissatisfied with the announcement Eleka and his party approached the Ekiti state election tribunal which dismissed the petition.
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