The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state over the outcome of the June 18 governorship election on Thursday dismissed the petition in its judgement .
The candidate of the Social Democratic party SDP, Engineer Segun Oni had instituted a case to challenge the victory of Biodun oyebanji as the Governor of the state.
The court in over two hours forty five minutes judgement resolved all the issues formulated by the petitioner for determination against them and subsequently affirmed the election of incumbent Governor Biodun oyebanji.
Delivering the ruling, a member of the Tribunal Justice Zaad Zadawa held that the SDP and its candidate failed to present satisfactory evidences that the incumbent Governor and his Deputy were not eminent qualified to context the June 18 poll.
The court further affirmed that it was valid for for “the petitioner to base their case on the signing a nomination letter since it was the party at the state level that decide candidate to represent it in an election”.