The governor-elect of Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, on Monday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
After the meeting with Buhari, he told State House correspondents that allegation of vote-buying levelled against the All Progressives Congress during the last Saturday governorship election in the state was false.
Oyebanj said that neither he nor his party, the APC, was involved in vote-buying as being circulated in different media platforms.
According to him, he and his party canvassed for votes from the electorate which led to their victory at the poll.
Insisting that he did not witness any vote-buying in the polling unit where he voted, Oyebanj said he won the poll based on his previous performance as the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) in the state.
He was accompanied to meet with Buhari by the APC National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, alongside some governors.
He insisted that the allegation of vote-buying was being sponsored by aggrieved persons who lost at the poll.
Others who accompanied him to see Buhari include Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, and Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo; and Senior Special Assistant to the President (Domestic), Sarki Abba, also attended the meeting with the President.
Oyebanj was declared the winner of the last Saturday governorship election in Ekiti State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after he scored 187,057 votes – over 100,000 votes more than that of his closest rival, Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), who got 82,211 votes.
Bisi Kolawole of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came third in the poll with 67,457 votes.