Ogunbiyi petitions PDP – Vanguard News

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By Dirisu Yakubu

The runner-up in Saturday’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Osun state, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi has called on the leadership of the party to declare him the party’s flag bearer in the state gubernatorial poll schedule for September 22, 2018.

•Akinade Ogunbiyi

Ogunbiyi who stormed the Wadata Plaza, national secretariat yesterday with scores of his supporters, faulted the process that produced the winner of the primary election, Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke, who polled a total of 1,569 votes, seven more than Ogunbiyi’s 1,562.

In a petition addressed to the chairman, gubernatorial Electoral Appeal Panel of the PDP, Ogunbiyi premised his prayers on the ground that 42 voided votes and 128 unaccounted votes were his, adding that the total votes he garnered amounted to 1,732.

“I, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi having polled the highest number…



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