AGUBE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The National Assembly Election wasconducted on 9 April 2011 bythe Independent National Electoral Commission in Kwara State. Among other candidates who contested the election into the Kwara Central Senatorial District of Kwara State, were Dr. Oloriegbe Ibrahim Yahaya under the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki who was sponsored by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).
At the conclusion of the exercise, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki was on Sunday, 10April 2011, returned and declared as the winner having polled a total of seventy-eight thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine (78,799) votes. Dr. Oloriegbe Ibrahim Yahaya came second with a total of fifty- three thousand, and fifty-eight (53,058) votes. Dissatisfied by the declaration and return of Dr. Saraki, Dr. Yahaya headed to the National and StatesAssembly Election Petition Tribunal, Kwara State Holden at Ilorin, coram: Honourable Justices Bitrus G.…