14 petitions have been submitted to the Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal, which will hear cases related to the national and state assembly elections, while 20 petitions were submitted to the Oyo State Election Petitions Tribunal on Tuesday.
All of the complaints that were submitted in Osun were against the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, who won three senate seats and nine seats in the House of Representatives in the elections held on February 25.
The secretary of the panel, Mohammed Magaji, claimed in an interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday at the tribunal’s office, which is housed on the grounds of the Osun State High Court in Osogbo, that the Action Alliance was the source of all three senatorial petitions brought against the three PDP senators-to-be.
Magaji said the AA was also challenging all the nine Reps seats won by the PDP, while the All Progressives Congress was challenging outcome of one House of Representatives election.
Magaji also said New Nigeria People’s Party was challenging the result of one House of Representatives seats.
ELECTIONS TRIBUNAL RECEIVES 42 PETITIONS IN ANAMBRA
He, however, said there was no petition yet on the March 18 House of Assembly elections, adding that, “sitting of the panel will commence immediately all petitions are in and other processes completed.”
He said, “So far, we have 14 petitions in total. Action Alliance has filed three senatorial petitions and nine against House of Representatives result. New Nigeria People’s Party and the All Progressives Congress both filed one petition each for House of Representatives.”
In Oyo, the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal told the News Agency of Nigeria that it had received 20 petitions from aggrieved political parties and their candidates in the state as of Tuesday.
The tribunal secretary, Mr Ibrahim Sada, said the petitions were filed within the 21-day period allowed by law.
Sada said of the 20 petitions, six were on senatorial election and while 14 emanated from the House of Representatives polls.
Sada explained that two petitions on the senatorial election were filed by the PDP, three by NNPP and one by Accord Party.
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