Fayemi is new Ekiti governor
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Kayode Ogunbunmi
October 15, 2010 01:36PM |  print  email   |
Ekiti State governor, Segun Oni, has been relieved of his job as the federal appeals court rules this afternoon in Ilorin that his opponent and Action Congress governorship candidate in the 2007 election, Kayode Fayemi was the rightful winner of the election.
The court, ruling on a legal challenge to a rerun election held in the state last year, cancelled the result of voting in Ido Osi and Ifaki, saying these were concocted. The 8000 votes were then deducted from the PDP result - thus handing over victory to the Action Congress candidate.
The judges lampooned INEC and Police's handlings of the 2007 and 2009 elections in the state.
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John Onyeukwu
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