The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will officially present certificates of return to Ondo State Governor-elect, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and his deputy on Wednesday.
Aiyedatiwa would be issued the certificate at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
This was disclosed by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanm, on Monday.
He said, “The certificates of return would be presented by INEC to the governor-elect and his deputy on Wednesday at the commission’s headquarters.”
INEC declared Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress the winner after he secured a total of 366,781 votes, defeating the Peoples Democratic Party’s Agboola Ajayi, who garnered 117,845 votes.
However, the Social Democratic Party has challenged the results of the Saturday governorship election that declared Aiyedatiwa winner.
Speaking with journalists on Monday in Akure, the state capital, the Chairman of the Ondo SDP, Mr. Gbenga Akinbuli, described the election as a disgrace to the country’s democracy, claiming that party agents were harassed and intimidated and that people were not allowed to vote in many polling stations due to alleged massive vote-buying.
Akinbuli stated that the SDP legal team was already working on the election results, demanding their revocation.
He said, “We sent our agent out. If one agent casts his vote at every polling unit, we should record nothing less than 2,000 votes.
“Our agent went to the polling units as early as 7 am, but they were intimidated out of the units; they couldn’t do anything. Voters were not allowed to come out. How can you register over two million voters, and you are saying less than 600,000 came out to vote? It’s a big shame on the government of the day. Voters were telling me that they were scared for their lives; they could not come out.
“Our legal team has started work. We are asking for the immediate cancellation of the election. It’s a show of shame; it was a buyer and seller competition.”
