The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally issued a certificate of return to Hon. Abdulraheem Agboola, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party at the Ilorin South state constituency election held on March 10th, 2019.
The certificate of return was issued to Agboola at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.
However, the official presentation, according to sources, will be held at the INEC Ilorin headquarters tommorow, December 4th, 2019.
The development comes after Justice Hamman Barkar Hkawu of the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin sacked delivered a judgement sacking the APC lawmaker, Abdulazeez Oluwanilo, and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue the PDP candidate a Certificate of Return.
The court based its decision on the disputed APC’s primaries which produced Suleiman Abdulsalam popularly known as Sule Cement, who was later replaced with 28-year-old Abdulazeez Oluwanilo.
The Appeal court held that APC had no valid candidate for the 2019 House of Assembly elections and thereby declared the candidate with the second highest votes, which is the PDP candidate , Abdulraheem Agboola as the winner of the election.
The PDP candidate had challenged the eligibility of APC candidate and his party nomination process at the tribunal.
