Abuja — A five-member panel of the Supreme Courtroom has affirmed the election of Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Governor of Lagos State.
The panel in a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Mohammed Lawal, affirmed the declaration of the APC’s candidate as winner of the March 18, 2023 governorship election, after dismissing two separate appeals difficult his victory.
Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Occasion (LP), who got here second and Abdulazeez Adediran fashionable generally known as Jandor of the Folks’s Democratic Occasion (PDP), who got here third had challenged the election of Sanwo-Olu on grounds of alleged irregularities, malpractices non-compliance in addition to non-qualification.
That they had particularly argued that the Deputy Governor, haven acquired citizenship of america of America shouldn’t be certified to contest elective place and as such his nomination as deputy governor was illegal null and void.
They subsequently argued that his alleged illegal nomination impacts the qualification of Sanwo-Olu, therefore the courtroom ought to nullify their participation within the governorship election.
Nevertheless, each the tribunal and the Courtroom of Attraction of their respective choices dismissed the 2 appeals for failure to show allegations made of their petitions.
The apex courtroom in its judgment delivered on Friday, held that it has discovered no cogent motive to deviate from the concurrent judgments of the tribunal and Courtroom of Attraction which held that Sanwo-Olu was lawfully elected as Governor of Lagos State.
The appellate courtroom in a unanimous judgment held that acquisition of a overseas nationwide doesn’t bar any citizen by start from contesting election.
Lawal said that the one situation a citizen with twin citizen can lose his proper to be elected as governor is when he denounced his Nigerian citizenship by start.
The apex courtroom subsequently dismissed the 2 appeals for missing in advantage.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the APC had polled 762,134 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Rhodes-Vivour, who scored 312,329 votes, with Jandor coming a distant third with 62,449 votes.
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