Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, on Tuesday tendered key documents before the state Election Petitions Tribunal in defence of his victory at the 20 June governorship election.

Mr Oyebanji, who was the flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is the 2nd Respondent in the separate petitions filed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Action Alliance (AA) to challenge his victory, opened his defence by tendering the documents and closed his defence thereafter.

The governor, who was seeking re-election, polled 319,224 votes to defeat the candidates of other parties.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wole Oluyede scored 40,543 votes to the second place, while that of the African ...