Opeyemi Adesina
The Local Government Election Petition Tribunal sitting at Ikeja has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Babajide Ibrahim Obanikoro as the winner of the Ikoyi-Obalende chairmanship poll held in October 22, 2011.
The son of Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro, had challenged the result of the council polls declared in favour of Adewala Adeniji of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) by LASIEC, claiming that the result was manipulated against him.
In its judgment today, the five-man Tribunal headed by retired Justice Dolapo Akinsanya, who declared the ING as illegal in 1993, held that from evidence before it, Babajide Obanikoro of the Peoples’s Democratic Party (PDP) won the election by 6,780 votes as against 6,248 polled by ACN.
Although the tribunal voided some results of some polling units and wards due to irregularities, it computed the result of other units and ward and declared PDP as winner of the election.
The area is the residence of Bola tinubu, the National leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
The PDP has commended the panel and also posited that Governor Fashola should direct the immediate swearing in of the declared winner to show that the Governor is not unduly partisan and that he upholds the Rule of Law.
The Panel had actually directed the swearing in to be done within 25 hours.
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