The Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State has rejected the declaration that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Sharafadeen Alli, won Oyo South Senatorial District in the February 25 National Assembly election.
The PUNCH reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission declared Alli as the winner, having polled 111,513 to defeat PDP’s Joseph Tegbe of PDP, who scored 92,481 votes.
But the PDP, in a statement on Sunday by its Publicity Secretary, Akeem Olatunji, described Alli’s victory as temporary, saying the PDP would unseat him soon.
Olatunji said, “Apart from the fact that INEC failed to transmit election results electronically as enshrined and mandated by the amended Electoral Act, there was concrete evidence of electoral fraud by the APC.
“The ruling PDP in the state, after taking custody of details of events from across all polling units and wards under Oyo South Senatorial District, and carefully studied them, it became substantially and evidently clear that the outcome of the February 25 election was the mother of all electoral fraud in the history of elections in the senatorial district.
“While assuring party faithful and loyalists to keep calm amidst persistent controversies still trailing the last election, Tegbe’s mandate would be retrieved from Alli in the court of law.
“The party is still studying results from Oyo Central, North Senatorial Districts, as well as Saki East/West Federal constituency for necessary legal actions,” Olatunji stated.
He added that the PDP House of Representatives candidates in Oluyole and Ibadan North East/South East Federal constituencies, Abdulmajeed Mogbonjubola and Abass Adigun, respectively, would emerge winners at the end of their elections earlier declared inconclusive.
