The five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, unanimously held that the appeal challenging the outcome of the poll lacked merit. PDP and Olusola-Eleka want the Supreme Court to upturn the Ekiti State Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal judgments. Both courts had dismissed the petition challenging the outcome of the July 2018 poll. Fayemi polled a total of 197,459 votes to defeat Olusola-Eleka with 178,121 votes in the July 14, 2018 election. But the tribunal on January 28, 2019, dismissed their petition and affirmed the results declared by INEC.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2019 11:07 UTC