Court Fixes Monday to Deliver Judgment on Sanwo-Olu’s Victory

The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has fixed a date to deliver judgment on petitions brought before it after the 2023 election.

The judgement will be delivered on Monday, September 25.

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour made this disclosure on Saturday Via a post on X, where he said he has been told that the ruling will be delivered on Monday.

The Labour Party candidate alongside the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abdul-Azeez Adediran approached the tribunal with their separate petitions.

Citing electoral fraud, among other claims, the two parties are asking the tribunal to nullify the re-election of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

You will recall that on April 11, Jandor and the Labour Party candidate separately asked the tribunal to nullify Sanwo-Olu’s re-election and declare them the winners.

Subsequently, on Wednesday, May 24, the tribunal dismissed the petitions filed by the Allied Peoples’ Movement and the Action Peoples Party against the victory of Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat, in the March 18 governorship election.

Sanwo-Olu polled 762,134 votes to defeat his closest rival, Rhodes-Vivour, who polled 312,329.

The candidate of the PDP, Adediran, came third with 62,449 votes while the candidate of APM, Funmilayo Kupoluyi, polled 884 and the candidate of APP, Abiola Adeyemi, garnered 259 votes.

The petitions of the APM and APP were dismissed by the Chairman of the three-man Tribunal, Justice Arum Ashom, after the petitioners withdrew them