Senator Buruji Kashamu representing Ogun East senatorial district at the National Assembly has said his opponent, Mr. Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who said his victory at the National and State Assemblies Election Petitions Tribunal was an act of God was living self-delusion.
According to a statement issued by Kashamu’s Media Assistant, Mr. Austin Oniyokor, Abiodun must be living in self delusion for him to claim any victory because none was awarded to him.
He said: “For clarification purposes, we reiterate that the tribunal did not nullify Kashamu’s election. It only nullified the votes attributed to both candidates in 110 polling units out of 1,135 polling units in Ogun East senatorial district.
“In its judgment, the tribunal said on page 133 that ‘we do not feel comfortable to nullify the election in Ogun East Senatorial District when 146,533 votes are valid because of 37,008 unlawful votes. We nullify the election into the Senatorial seat in the following polling units and order a fresh election.’
“It is worthy to note that after cancelling the results of the election in the 110 polling units, the tribunal awarded 70, 677 votes to Abiodun and 75,856 to Kashamu.
“The implication is that Kashamu is still leading Abiodun with 5,179 votes. So, how can someone trailing behind Kashamu with over 5,000 votes be claiming victory?
“It is also very important to reiterate that the rerun was ordered in 110 out of over 1,135 polling units in the senatorial district. That is less than 10 per cent of the polling units in the senatorial district.
“According to the tribunal, the election was successfully held in 1,025 polling units representing 90.3 per cent of the senatorial district as against the purportedly flawed 110 polling units representing 9.7 per cent of the senatorial district! In effect, the election had a 90.3 per cent success rate!
“For Abiodun’s information, Kashamu will remain in office. His certificate of return is still with him. It has not been withdrawn because there is no such consequential order.
“The Court of Appeal will decide whether the tribunal has the right to call for a rerun where less than 10% was found to be irregular, bearing in mind that there is always human errors/factors in every election which the tribunal itself acknowledged,” he said.
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