THE Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State has stated that it would challenge and reclaim its stolen mandate of Oyo South Senatorial district where Sharafadeen Alli of All Progressives Congress was declared the winner ahead of Joseph Tegbe of PDP, in court.
The PUNCH reports that the returning officer in charge of the Senatorial district, Wole Olatokun of the Department of Data and Information Science, declared Alli as a winner, having polled 111,513 to defeat Tegbe of PDP who scored 92,481 votes during the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
According to a statement by its publicity secretary, Akeem Olatunji, on Sunday, Alli’s victory was temporal and would be reclaimed 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 last week’s 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 at 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, would emerge winners at the end of their elections earlier declared inconclusive.
