The three-man tribunal said in the ruling that the rerun election that held on September 27 was illegal.
The tribunal said Adeleke won the election at the first ballot on September 22, and the rerun that INEC devised to reach a final conclusion a week later was illegal.
INEC had declared the September 22 election inconclusive because the margin between the PDP and APC, 353 votes, is less than the number of registered voters, 3,498, in the seven polling units where elections were cancelled.
The APC candidate in the election, Oyetola,who was declared the winner after the rerun, APC and INEC had filed their notices of preliminary objection against Adeleke and PDP’s petition on the grounds that the petition is incompetent adding that the court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the petition.
The objection filed by Gov Oyetola, APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was dismissed by the tribunal.
*Photo L-R: Oyetola, Adeleke