The elections of the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosu and his Plateau State counterpart, Jonah Jang were on Monday upheld by the Election Petitions Tribunals sitting in Abeokuta and Jos respectively.
The Abeokuta tribunal dismissed the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] for lack of “merit” and ordered it to pay the respondents – Amosun and two others, the sum of N10,000:00 each.
In Jos the petition of of Dame Pauline Tallen, governorship candidate of the Labor Party (LP) was also dismissed.
The PDP had dragged Amosun, the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC], to the tribunal where it prayed the court to declare that its candidate, Gen. Adetunji Olurin [Rtd], scored the highest number of valid votes cast and be returned as winner.
PDP had also prayed the tribunal to order INEC to immediately issue Olurin, a certificate of return as the lawful winner and in the event that the above prayers were not granted, the Court should in the alternative declare as a “nullity,” the election that brought Amosun into office as governor.
The Jos judgment which lasted for over three hours was delivered under tight security with the Police and Special Task Force ( STF) deploying over 5, 000 men for the event.
Roads were barricaded with armored vehicles manned with armed security men of the police, STF and civil defence.
In the April 26, 2011 governorship election in Plateau State, the INEC scored Jang, the PDP flag bearer with 823, 536 votes, while Tallen scored 494, 975 votes.

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