The Oyo state governorship candidate of the Accord Party (AP) in the April 11 governorship election, Senator Rashidi Ladoja has called 26 witnesses at the hearing of his petition filed before the state governorship election petition tribunal.
Ladoja is challenging the election of Governor Ajibola Ajimobi of the All Progressices Congress (APC) in the suit filed before a three-man panel. The witnesses that Ladoja presented were drawn from some of the state’s local governments, which results were being challenged by the petitioner.
The witnesses were later cross-examined by the counsel to Ajimobi, Olumuyiwa Aduroja; APC lawyer Babatunde Aiku; and Yusuf Ali, representing the Resident Electoral Commission (REC), Ambassador Rufus Akeju, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The results of 21 local government areas are being disputed and electoral materials used in the councils have been admitted and marked as exhibits before the tribunal, The Nation reports.
Counsel to the petitioner, Richard Ogunwole, has exhausted 8 of the 10 days allotted to him to call his witnesses and present his evidence.He will close the appearances of his witnesses today while the respondent’s lawyers are expected to open their on Monday.
Ajimobi is the first governor of Oyo state to govern the state for two consecutive terms. Ladoja, also a former governor of Oyo state has been in the opposition since his impeachment saga purportedly fueled by the late Lamidi Adedibu, popularly known as the strong man of Ibadan Politics and ‘amala politics’.
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