PDP Heads To Court Over INEC’s Declaration • Channels Television

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is heading to the court to quash the declaration of the September 22, Osun governorship election as inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In a statement issued on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP insisted that the polls had already been concluded and results announced in all polling units and collation centers, thus bringing the exercise to its lawful conclusion and removing INEC’s powers to declare the election inconclusive.

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The statement read in part, “Our electoral law is clear that once an election result is declared, INEC is bound to return a winner.

“INEC, in trying to play the card of the defeated All Progressives Congress (APC), contravened the law by refusing to announce a return, even when the declared results have thrown up a…