The second Election Petition Tribunal yesterday nullified the election of another member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon Igbekele Bolodeoku, who hitherto represented Ese-Odo Local Government Constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
This brings to five the number of PDP legislators whose election have been nullified by the panel.
Only on Thursday, the Justice Garba Nabaruma-led tribunal declared the Labour Party (LP) candidate as the winner of the House of Assembly poll in Ifedore Local Government constituency.
Delivering judgement in the petition filed by LP’s Prince Ibukun Kalasuwe, Justice Maiwada Abdulahi affirmed that there were no elections in the constituency.
According to the judge, there were discrepancies in the number of votes said to have been recorded by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and those found in the bag after the exercise.
The tribunal also said it was discovered that political office holders, including the Secretary to the State Government, Barrister Isaacs Kekemeke, hijacked electoral materials and thumb-printed same, after which figures were allocated to parties including those that did not contest elections.
The tribunal therefore held that the petitioner had proved his case beyond reasonable and convinced that the exercise was null and void.
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