The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Lagos State has received a petition from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State, and its candidate for governor, Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor).
PDP and Jandor are requesting that the candidates for the Labour Party (LP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election be disqualified for failing to follow the Election Act, 2022.
The March 18 gubernatorial election’s results were contested in a petition dated April 7 and designated EPT/LAG/GOV/01/2023 on the basis of flagrant violations of the Electoral Act and the Independent National Election Commission’s rules (INEC).
The APC, the LP Governorship Candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and the LP are the respective second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth respondents, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, his deputy governorship candidate, Obafemi Hamzat, and INEC serving as the first respondent.
In their petition, Jandor and PDP assert that Sanwo-Olu, Hamzat, and Rhodes-Vivour were ineligible to run for governor on March 18, 2023, in addition to failing to comply with pertinent sections of the Election Act 2022.
Hence, the petitioners pleaded that all votes cast in their favour during the election would be deemed invalid.
Remember that Sanwo-Olu won the governorship race by defeating 15 other candidates from other parties.
Sanwo-Olu received 762,134 votes, defeating Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, who received 312,329 votes, to win the election.
Jandor, a PDP candidate, received 62,449 votes to finish third.
