The Supreme Court has upheld the victory of the Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election in the state.
In the majority judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim on Wednesday, four of the seven-member panel, dismissed the appeal made by candidate Eyitayo Jegede and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the grounds that it was incompetent.
The judge upheld that the petition filed at the election tribunal was incompetent because they failed to include the Governor of Yobe State and Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the APC, Mai Mala Buni, as a party.