BEVERLY HILLS, March 29, (THEWILL) – The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Kayode 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 on Thursday dismissed the appeal filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olusola Eleka and the PDP for lacking merit.
The tribunal in the judgment resolved all 7 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.
INEC had declared that Fayemi 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.
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.
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