The Mega Progressive People’s Party, MPPP, has asked the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State to nullify the re-election of Governor Ibikunle Amosun for excluding the party and its standard bearer in the state from the April 11 gubernatorial polls.

The MPPP in a petition dated April 24, 2015 and signed by its National Chairman, Hamisu Santuraki and counsel to the party, Dayo Solaja (SAN), is however, seeking an order of the Tribunal directing INEC to conduct a fresh governorship election in the state.

The petitioner prayed that Amosun’s re-election must be nullified at the tribunal on the grounds that its governorship candidate in Ogun State, Mrs. Iyabode Ogunmefun, who was validly nominated was “unlawfully excluded” from the April 11 gubernatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The party in its petition before the Tribunal sued INEC and joined the All Progressives Congress, governor Ibikunle Amosun and his running mate, Mrs. Yetunde Onanuga as respondents.

Other relief being sought by the MPPP include an order of the Tribunal setting aside the election of Governor Amosun conducted by INEC on April 11.

The MPPP is also seeking an order of the Tribunal declaring as null and void “ab initio” the declaration of the result of the election conducted by INEC returning Amosun and his running mate on the platform of the APC as the winner “due to the exclusion of the petitioner and its candidate for the governorship of Ogun State of Nigeria by the 1st respondent.”

It also wants the Tribunal to set aside the result of the election conducted by INEC on April 11 which returned Governor Amosun and his running mate as well as the withdrawal of the Certificates of Return issued to them.

The MPPP is further asking the Tribunal for an order directing INEC to conduct a re-run election for the governor of Ogun State.

The party is also seeking “such further or other order as the Tribunal may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this case.”

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