APC scales first hurdle at Ekiti governorship tribunal
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by opeyemi aremu-gbemiro3 justice suleiman belgore while granting the prayers gave reasons for granting the application which was filed on july 312 he said the counsel had sought the order of the court to access the election materials in order to make photocopy of the documents of the election materials and to use forensic equipment to view the handwriting of the election result and the fingerprint of the election materials2 the request he also said was to obtain and photocopy all the election materials which were also in custody of the first respondent the peoples democratic party pdp2 he added that the request was to seek forensic experts to access both machine and other materials used in the conduct of the election2 the tribunal chairman granted the application saying this was also approved for the pdp2 the pdp candidate and current deputy governor prof. kolapo olusola scored 178121 votes2 the all progressives congress apc appears to have recorded its first victory at the election petition tribunal sitting in ado ekiti on monday as it prayers was granted to inspect election materials and results of the july 14 governorship election in the state1 the apc was represented at the tribunal by yomi ariyo a senior advocate of nigeria who led six other counsels1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that apc candidate dr kayode fayemi was declared the winner of the election by the chief returning officer prof. idowu olayinka after securing 197459 votes1