The Lagos State Local Government Election Petitions Tribunal headed by Justice Dolapo Akinsanya on Thursday declared Jide Obanikoro of the Peoples Democratic Party winner of the October 22, 2011 council poll in Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area of the state.
The tribunal nullified the declaration of Adewale Adeniji of the Action Congress of Nigeria as the winner of the election by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission.
Jide is the son of Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to Ghana, Musiliu Obanikoro.
The tribunal held that Obanikoro won with 3,780 votes while Adeniji got 3,248 votes.
The tribunal said the ACN and its candidate “failed to rebut the burden of proof that was shifted on them by the quantum of evidence provided by the petitioners.”
It noted that the respondents did not dispute Obanikoro’s claim that there was no collation of results after the poll was conducted.
The tribunal therefore concluded that it had the power to collate the results via the valid votes as entered into the appropriate LASIEC FORM 9A which is the only form acceptable for chairmanship results for local government elections in Lagos and the petitioners had brought same before the tribunal.
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