Date Published: 05/05/09

Ekiti: Oni declared winner

As earlier reported by Pointblanknews.com, Engineer Gbenga Oni of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in the Governorship rerun election said to be Nigeria’s worst since independent. He defeated Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the Action Congress, AC.

The election was marred by accusation and counter accusation, bribery, pandemonium and the controversial resignation of Ekiti State Electoral Commissioner, Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo.

Mrs. Ayoka returned back to her position less than 24 hours after resigning, sealing Oni’s victory with the Idi-Osi result where INEC was alleged to have inflated the numbers of registered voters to help secure victory for the PDP candidate.