The National Assembly and State Houses Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Ikeja on Monday , affirmed the election of Sen . Oluremi Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress for Lagos Central senatorial constituency .
Delivering judgment , the three -member tribunal led by Justice Kunaza Hamidu , held that the petition filed by Chief Adesunbo Onitiri of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP ) challenging the election of Tinubu failed as it did not establish any prima facie case against her.
“ The petition lacked merit and is hereby dismissed .
“ The declaration of Sen . Oluremi Tinubu by the Independent National Election Commission ( INEC ) as winner of Feb . 23 National Assembly election is hereby affirmed,” the tribunal declared.
Onitiri had dragged Tinubu and INEC before the Tribunal , challenging the result of the Lagos Central Senatorial District election over alleged irregularities .
Respondents in the case are the APC and INEC .
Onitiri had alleged that INEC wrongly declared Tinubu winner of the polls with 131 , 725 votes, while he was said to have scored 89 ,107 votes .
He claimed that INEC ought to have declared him winner of the election instead of Tinubu , claiming that he scored the highest lawful votes cast at the election .
In a petition filed before the tribunal ,
Onitiri’s counsel , Onome Akpeneye , alleged that the results declared by INEC was fraught with vote – buying , violence , over -voting , inducement of voters with monetary and material gains, campaigning and lobbying voters , on the day of election .
Other irregularities he stated in his petition, included : non- accreditation and improper accreditation of voters by INEC officials , intimidation and arrest of his supporters and poll agents , as well as instigation of electoral violence by agents of the first respondent.
Onitiri also alleged that apart from the listed irregularities , there were irreconcilable entries in the result declared and the number of votes recorded in favour of Tinubu by INEC in forms EC 8 A and EC 8B respectively.
“ The final result was signed only by the agent of APC and the Senatorial INEC Returning officer in an unknown location ,” he added .
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