The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State has affirmed the rulings of the Electoral petition tribunal that Ogun state Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun is the elected governor of the state
The tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital, had on September 4 dismissed the petition of his main challenger Adekunle Akinlade of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
Akinlade appealed the judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal in Abeokuta that upheld the victory of Abiodun as the Ogun State governor.
Other respondents in the appeal are the APC and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The ground of Akinlade’s appeal was that Governor Dapo Abiodun was not qualified to contest the governorship election based on his false qualification and urged the court to uphold the appeal.
APM’s lead Counsel Mr Sebastine Hon (SAN), said Abiodun submitted a false academic qualification to aid his qualification to contest the 2019 governorship election.
Hon contended that there was a difference between what he wrote in the form CFO submitted in 2015 to contest the Senatorial election and the one submitted in 2019 for governorship election.
