Ondo guber: Ajayi rejects election results, heads to Tribunal

Some 48 hours after the declaration of Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State as the winner of last Saturday’s governorship election, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results of the election.

Ajayi, who said he has been studying and examining the election results across the state, disclosed that he would be heading to the tribunal to seek justice.

The former Deputy Governor said he kept silent since the announcement of the results to enable him to investigate what he termed “contents of criminality prosecuted by both the APC and the INEC.”

Ajayi said the investigation uncovered many actions undertaken to compromise the electoral will of the people.

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Speaking in a statement through his Special Adviser, Ayo Fadaka, Ajayi said democracy could not thrive in an environment where unabated criminality was perpetrated in the prosecution of an election by INEC.

He noted that elections conducted by INEC since the APC assumed power in 2015 have continued in the tradition of hijacking the process and delivering results that were diametrically opposed to the expressed electoral will.

He said, “While not divulging the nature and extent of the results of our investigations for now, our only prayer is that those who possess the privileges to determine the fate of the people and the nation should begin to live up to expectations and fear God, in the interest of our nation, its wellness, peace, and tranquility, or else they will be reduced to the same level as criminals and bandits who continuously lay landmines that undermine the progress of our nation.

“We particularly call on the Judiciary to brace up and perform the sacred and onerous responsibility of guaranteeing the portability of justice to people and institutions that seek it.

“The nation and the people will appreciate that.

“In summary, we reject the results of the Nov. 16 election and will take legal action to reverse the debauchery. That is the option available to us, and we are hopeful that both man and God, who is the ultimate, will give us justice. It is time we begin to eschew criminality from our electoral process.”

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE