Nigeria, Nov. 6 -- The Court of Appeal has nullified the election of a senator from Ekiti State, Dayo Adeyeye.

According to Punch Newspaper, Justice Uzor Anyanwu of the appeal court in Kaduna, who read the judgement on Wednesday, upheld the tribunal judgment declaring Abiodun Olujimi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial election held on February 23.

Following the declaration of Mr Adeyeye by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner, Mrs Olujimi filed a petition to the election tribunal, alleging that there were irregularities in the election.

She submitted that she scored the highest number of lawful votes cast during the keenly contested poll.

Mrs Olujimi asked the tribu...