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Polls: 16 Ogun PDP Assembly Candidates File Petitions Against APC Counterparts At Tribunal

16 state legislative candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have filed their petitions at the Elections Petition Tribunal in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

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16 state legislative candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have filed their petitions at the Elections Petition Tribunal in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

The candidates lost their respective elections to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on March 18.

The affected PDP candidates include those for Abeokuta North, Abeokuta South II, Ado-Ota I & II, Ewekoro, Ifo II, Imeko-Afo, Ijebu Ode, Ijebu North II, Sagamu II, Obafemi-Owode, Odeda, Ipokia, Yewa North I & II and Yewa South State Constituencies.

Through their counsels represented by Dr Hassan Balogun, they filed their respective petitions on various grounds of infractions against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress and the respective elected APC candidates.

The grounds of the PDP Assembly candidates include the alleged non-compliance and non-lawful votes obtained by the APC candidates who were returned as elected members of the Ogun State House of Assembly for their respective state constituencies in the March 18 general elections.

GWG.ng gathered that the voluminous petitions backed with the citing of several infractions which include disruption of polling units, violence, snatching of ballot boxes and others pleaded the tribunal to order the return of the PDP candidates who believed they polled more votes.

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