ELECTION TRIBUNAL- The governorship candidates the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Abdul-Azeez Adediran, alias Jandor, have asked the Lagos State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal to nullify the outcome of the March 18 governorship election in the state, won by incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress.
Rhodes-Vivour, in his petition marked EPT/LAG/GOV/04/2023 dated April 9, 2023, urged the tribunal to nullify Sanwo-Olu’s victory on the alleged grounds that the APC candidate was not qualified to run in the election.
The LP candidate, in his petition, alleged that the election of Sanwo-Olu was invalid by reason of corrupt practices or non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the Constitution.
Similarly, the PDP candidate, Jandor, in his petition, contended that Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, were at the time of the election not qualified to contest.
Jandor said the LP candidate, Rhodes-Vivour, who was declared the first runner-up, was not qualified to participate in the election either.
Jandor is urging the tribunal to declare all the votes cast for the APC and the LP as wasted votes.
Apart from the PDP and the LP, other parties which filed petitions to challenge the outcome of the governorship election are Allied People’s Movement; and the Action People’s Party.
