Tribunal Affirms Saraki's Election Ibrahim, Olayonu, Adedoyin floor PDP candidates

Senator Bukola Saraki.

Hammed Shittu in Ilorin
The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State Capital yesterday affirmed the election of March 28 which produced the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Kwara central, Senator Bukola Saraki.

The three-man panel led by Justice  Josiah Majebi in a two-hour ruling, dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the election, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, for lack of merit, competence and substance.

The chairman said the petitioner failed to prove his case that the March 8, 2015, election that produced the respondent, Saraki, was characterised by electoral malpractices that could warrant the dismissal of that election.

Also, the tribunal upheld the election of the senator representing Kwara South senatorial district on the platform of the APC, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim.

The PDP candidate in the election, Mr. Lola Ashiru, had approached the tribunal to nullify the election of Ibrahim for alleged electoral malpractices that took place during the March 28 National Assembly election in the state.