Breaking: Appeal Court Sacks Senate Spokesman, Adeyeye

The Kaduna Division of the Court of Appeal on Wednesday sacked Spokesman of the Senate, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, representing Ekiti South Senatorial Zone at the National Assembly.

The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Adeyeye, the candidate of All Progressives Congress as the winner of the February 23, National Assembly election but Senator Olujimi challenged the result at the tribunal on the grounds that she scored the highest number of votes cast.

In her petition, Senator Olujimi had asked the tribunal to nullify Adeyeye's victory on the grounds that the election was marred by massive irregularities.

The petitioner had also claimed that the election was not conducted in substantial compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Acts, having been allegedly fraught with all manners of irregularities.

The tribunal in its judgment then nullified elections in some polling units and declared Mrs Olujimi the authentic winner of the polls.

However, dissatisfied with the tribunal judgment, both Adeyeye and his party(APC), filed a petition at the court of appeal asking it to set aside the ruling of the lower court.

But while delivering a unanimous judgement on Wednesday in Kaduna, Justice Uzor Anyanwu upheld the judgment of the tribunal and ordered INEC to issue a fresh certificate of return to Senator Biodun Olujimi of the PDP as the authentic winner of the February 23 National Assembly Election.