Lagos poll: How tribunal resolved eligibility, nationality, other issues
IN this report, it was examined how the Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal processed the issues of the winners' eligibility to contest and nationality, among others raised by the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olajide Adediran, and the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. Five months after it began sitting, the Lagos State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal on September 25 upheld the victory of Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the validly elected winner of the March 18 election for the Office of the Governor of Lagos State. The three-man panel of justices unanimously rejected the challenge to Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat’s eligibility to contest, the issues of certificate forgery, nationality and oath declaration, among others alleged by the defeated candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Olajide Adediran, and the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour. The election The Independent National Electoral Commissio...