By Our Correspondent<\/p>\n
Barely three weeks after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared governor Adeleke of Accord party winner of Osun election, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) have challenged the outcome of the August 15, 2026, Osun Gubernatorial elections incumbent governor’s victory as Tribunal displays two Petitions<\/p>\n
The petitions were confirmed in a notice sighted by our correspondent at the tribunal secretariat in Osogbo on Monday, formally commencing the legal process arising from the August 15 governorship election.<\/p>\n
The development followed confirmation by the secretary of the tribunal, Pefe Belemore, that petitions challenging the election outcome had been filed.<\/p>\n
According to Belemore, \u201cThe necessary notices would be displayed on the tribunal\u2019s notice board before noon on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the opening of the tribunal earlier in the day, Belemore was present in the courtroom alongside other officials of the secretariat as preparations were made for the commencement of proceedings.<\/p>\n
The APC and PDP are challenging the outcome of the election, which returned Adeleke as governor for another term in office.<\/p>\n
The display of the petitions is expected to pave the way for the service of legal processes on the parties involved and subsequent proceedings before the tribunal.<\/p>\n
The APC\u2019s petition, marked EPT\/OS\/GOV\/01\/2026, was filed by its governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji.<\/p>\n
Oyebamiji listed Adeleke, the Accord and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as respondents in the petition challenging the election outcome.<\/p>\n
The PDP\u2019s petition, marked EPT\/OS\/GOV\/02\/2026, was filed by Adebayo Olugbenga Adedamola against Adeleke, INEC and the Accord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Our Correspondent Barely three weeks after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared governor Adeleke of Accord party winner of Osun election, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) have challenged the outcome of the August 15, 2026, Osun Gubernatorial elections incumbent governor’s victory as Tribunal displays two Petitions The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17497,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496\/revisions\/17497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}