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The Ogun State
chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said it would
head to the electoral tribunal to challenge the national assembly
election results of the Ogun West senatorial district, as well as the
Yewa/Egbado North House of Representatives. The chairman of the PDP
campaign team, Sarafa Ishola, revealed this at the end of the two-day
review session of last Saturday’s election. He said the party was not
satisfied with the so-called victories of the Action Congress of
Nigeria senatorial candidate for Yewa/Egbado West and that of Rasaki
Adewusi of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) for the House of
Representatives.

In a statement
issued by the party, Mr Sarafa said the PDP had incontrovertible
evidence showing that its Ogun West senatorial and Yewa/Egabdo North
House of Representatives candidates won their seats for the party.

“The PDP would be
proving to the electoral tribunal that its candidate, Babatunde Fadu,
won the senatorial seat for Ogun West while Alexander Ajibade won the
House of Representatives seat for Egbado/Yewa North,” he said.

Still in the race

The campaign team
also said its governorship candidate, Tunji Olurin, is still running
for the office, contrary to speculations that he had stepped down for
Gboyega Isiaka, the PPN candidate.

“The PDP
gubernatorial candidate for Ogun State, Adetunji Olurin, is still very
much in the race. This is to put paid to unimaginable wicked lies being
fabricated by PPN and others who do not wish Ogun State people well,”
said the statement, which was signed by Lai Labode, the media committee
chairman.

“The party wishes to confirm to PDP supporters that at no meeting
called by any Yewa Group did the issue of stepping down for a PPN
candidate by Adetunji Olurin came up. It is laughable that the PPN,
which seriously showed very poor outing in the last week elections,
could ever dream that PDP, which did better, would concede to PPN,” it
stated.