Ms Tolu Ebun, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for Shomolu Federal Constituency, has announced her decision to approach the National Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lagos to challenge the outcome of the election in her constituency.

The 32-year-old said she is confident that with the overwhelming evidence of electoral malpractice and irregularities, ‘the tribunal will restore the mandate freely given to her by the people’.

She contested against Mr. Oyewole Olufemi Diya of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In a press statement by her media team, Ebun noted that, “I was very confident of victory not only because of the nature of the grassroots campaigns we had conducted, but because of the widespread rejection of the APC candidate by residents of the constituency.

“However, the elections were fraught with irregularities, alteration of results and non-compliance with provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Electoral Act and Operational Handbook issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In addition, there were several instances of connivance between agents of Mr. Diya/APC and INEC officials/security agents deployed for the conduct of the elections”.

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