The Court of Appeal, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Tuesday affirmed Biodun Oyebanji as the winner of the gubernatorial election held on June 18, 2022.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that delivering the judgment, a three-member panel of the court dismissed the appeal filed by the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Olusegun Oni, for lacking merit.
Oyebanji is a former Secretary to the Ekiti State Government and ex-Chief of Staff. He was elected governor during the 2022 Ekiti State gubernatorial election, having defeated Oni and Bisi Kolawole of the People Democratic Party (PDP).
When Nigeria reverted to democracy in 1999, at 32 years old, he was named as one of the top advisers to Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Ekiti State’s first democratically elected governor. Oyebanji ascended through the ranks to become the state governor’s Chief of Staff in 2003.
In 2009, the incumbent Ekiti governor was appointed as the Chairman of the governing board, Citizenship and Leadership Training centre under the federal ministry of youth and sports development (June 2009 – December 2010).
In 2010, Oyebanji was appointed the commissioner for integration and inter-governmental affairs and later Ekiti’s office of transformation strategy and delivery (OTSD) a year later by the administration of Kayode Fayemi.
In 2018, Oyebanji was appointed secretary to the state government (SSG) by Fayemi, a position he held until December 2021 when he joined the governorship race.
Yes, we have been able to completely decipher the plans of APC on Saturday, Yes, with what they planned so far, they can win the election by rigging it completely. They plan to unleash heavy tugs to areas that are not their strong holds and disrupt the elections there. SECURITY AGENTS SHOULD TAKE NOTE DECISIVLY. while their machineries tend to move in with money to hijack the inec with THE BVAS to upload a manipulated election result. IN THIS REGARD, they might defy the security agents. ATIKU AND OBI should fortify each pooling boot with their agents to stop and check this. if not, they should say bye to the election. the whole Northwest, Southwest and some part of Northeast will witness this and it is going to affect Atiku mostly. (PDP is in a serious issue here). HIJACKING OF THE POOLING UNITS!!!!!! BUT, THIS might be bloody anyway. God forbid. THIS PLAN IS ALSO TO BE WITNESSED IN RIVERS TOO.